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Joshua HeavinFormation

Character in Absurd Times

The greatest test of our character quite often is what we are willing or able to do when all hope seems lost.

Amy MantravadiFamilyCultureFormation

Parenting an Autistic Child in 2025

If we lack a robust account of the goodness of human life itself, we will have very little to offer to parents of children on the autism spectrum.

Jake MeadorCultureFormation

Even Now, Faithful Presence

Times of chaos can make us question if ordinary Christian practices are sufficient. Yet the underlying facts of our situation are the same as ever.

Jim WildemanFormation

The Least I Can Do

The small expressions we use without thought often convey far more than we first intended.

Casey ShuttTheologyFormation

Bari Weiss, Amanda Knox, and the Intrusion of Grace

Even when we don't recognize its source in Christianity, we all recognize and often need the power of grace.

Mitch EastFamilyCultureFormation

The Separation of Woman and Womb: A Warning

If we imagine some not unlikely future forms of biomedical tech we will quickly realize how inadequate much Christian thinking about bioethics has been.

Ian HarberTechnologyFormation

Monk or Missionary: Christian Approaches to Social Media

Given the now obvious dangers inherent to social media use, two primary options remain for Christians: to become a digital missionary... or digital monk.

Drake OsbornFormation

Found in the Cosmos: Holiness and the Therapeutic

A robust understanding of holiness presents an alternative form of life, set against both the therapeutic and the rationalistic.

Amy MantravadiBooksFormation

Medieval Wisdom for Modern Readers

Grace Hamman's 'Ask of Old Paths' is an account of virtue that is simultaneously conversant with the contemporary world and grounded in the medieval.

Jeremy SextonCultureChurchFormation

Doug Wilson Is Not a Prophet

Doug Wilson's 'serrated edge' substitutes lampoon for lament and crosses into language Scripture forbids.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchFormation

Becoming the Given: Christian Belonging After the Therapeutic

The therapeutic has emerged as a 'secular methodism' of sorts which we use as an attempt to cope with a world without stories, meaning, or belonging.

Elizabeth SticeTechnologyFormation

The Real You

It’s not the real world, but it is the real you.