Contributor

Formation

Filed under

Formation

Rachel WelcherFormationJournalSpring 2025

Don't Trip

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

Forsaking All Others

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 Memory of a Garden

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

Lauds

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

How to Read the Bible with the Historic Church

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

In Defense of Playlists

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

Faithful Doubting

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

Common Arts That Matter

A liberal arts education that neglects the common arts does a grave disservice to its students.

Steven M. BryanTheologyFormation

The Gospel Doesn't Impart a Lens, but a Life

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

Humble Beauty and the Art of Hospitality

Jeremy Bugh interviews filmmaker Houston Coley about hospitality, art, and beauty as depicted in his film 'A Kingdom of Tea and Strangers.'

Matt MillerChurchFormation

Against Vision Statements

Though well-intended, the ubiquity of church 'vision statements' suggests our ideas of church life may be too shaped by capitalism.

Jim LocklearFamilyFormation

Children of Men

Human beings are connected in such a way that we can recognize and experience the pain of our neighbors, even those quite distant from us in time.