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Matthew LaPineBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025
Edith Hall's moving exploration of suicide in classical art is a striking but ultimately inadequate response to the problem of suicide.
Jake MeadorTheologyFormation
It is no dishonor to our fathers in the faith to extend their thought or dissent from it, nor is it an honor to them to agree unthinkingly.
Rachel WelcherFormationJournalSpring 2025
The things that so irritate us in the moment are often precisely the things which give meaning and joy to our lives.
Kirsten SandersFamilyMarriageFormationJournalSpring 2025
To have at the end of your life one single story, a promise that was kept, would gesture to all the things you did not choose.
Andrew MenkisFormation
The dream of going to another place is the longing to return to Eden. But we cannot return. We cannot find or recreate that place in which God placed Adam.
Matt MillerTechnologyFormation
We have optimized our lives so much that we have forgotten where we belong, what life that thrums around us beyond our ambitions and devices.
Michael NiebauerTheologyFormation
Though it has broadly been forgotten today, the church has historically read the Bible in more expansive and literary ways than has been common recently.
Thomas Sieberhagen, Brewer Eberly, and Josh WeirCultureTechnologyFormation
The work of curating playlists to share amongst friends can actually be a way of resisting the tendency of our day to reduce music to mere ambient noise.
Phil WoodwardFormation
Learning how to distinguish forms of doubt and locate doubt within the Christian experience is a key part of Christian maturation.
Thomas Fickley and Fr. Mark PerkinsCultureFormation
A liberal arts education that neglects the common arts does a grave disservice to its students.
Steven M. BryanTheologyFormation
The language we use is embedded in broader accounts of reality. Therefore we must stick closely to scriptural language as we describe the Christian life.
Jeremy BughCultureFormation
Jeremy Bugh interviews filmmaker Houston Coley about hospitality, art, and beauty as depicted in his film 'A Kingdom of Tea and Strangers.'