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Ian HarberFormation

In Defense of a Rule of Life

The point of a rule of life is not to create a bespoke spiritual identity, but to develop specific rules to help you with your specific sin struggles.

Erik CoonceFormation

What's Wrong with a "Rule of Life"?

The 'rule of life' concept offers some genuine value, but easily becomes a spiritualized sort of 'life hack,' merely another form of self-actualization.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismFormation

Faithful Presence After the Evangelical Fracturing

Is the Hunterian project of faithful presence simply dead today, an antiquated method that can't cope with contemporary challenges? (No, it isn't.)

Rebecca Brewster StevensonBook ReviewsFormation

A Mouldering Feast: The Dangers of Victimhood as Identity

To make our sufferings the center of our identity is to condemn ourselves to a life of more suffering, to cut ourselves off from hope for something better.

Jake MeadorFormation

Gratitude and the Life of Institutions

Healthy, life-giving relationships are virtually always formed within institutions where common loves and ambitions are more easily discovered.

Jake MeadorFormation

Therapy and Bug Men

Though of limited help to us, neither therapy nor weight training nor any other earthly technique can truly provide the healing balm we seek.

Griffin GoochFormation

How a Skull & Hourglass Alleviate my Anxiety

Reminders of our mortality and the relative unimportance of many of the things we worry over can help us resist the siren-like songs of anxiety.

Isabel ChenotFormation

The Sixth Day

Teach us, Lord, to wait.

John EhrettBook ReviewsFormation

You Don't Escape to Narnia

The point of the Narnia tales isn't to escape your normal life, but to find something in Narnia that you also must learn to find in 'normal' reality.

Stephen SpinnenweberChurchFormation

Shepherds, Brothers, Witnesses: A Vision for Pastoral Life Together

Any worthy vision of pastoral life must be rooted in faithful preaching, brotherly trust, and confidently proclaiming the Gospel.

Michael GembolaFormation

Ancient Pastoral Wisdom for a Therapeutic Age

Integrating psychology and theology has too often been an integration of Sunday School-level theology with PhD-level psychology.

Seth TrouttChurchFormation

Church Discipline in the Digital Age

The digital world has made church discipline seem impossible, pointless, and irrelevant. Yet churches cannot make disciples without discipline.