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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 SpinnenweberChurchFormationPCA Next Generation Forum

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.

Skyler FlowersFormation

How Online Media Deforms Christian Disciples

An unhealthy online media diet will malform and twist Christian disciples. The best (only?) way out is embodied, local Christian community.

L. M. SacasasTechnologyFormation

The Thing That is Silence

Silence is best understood not as a negation, but as a positive and formative presence whose absence we suffer from.

Brad LittlejohnFormation

Seeking Wisdom Without Training Wheels: An Exhortation to Christian Graduates

New Christian graduates are now tasked with the task of cultivating wisdom without the benefit of training wheels.

Daniel DormanFormation

To Sit in the Threat of Loss

Sitting with the possibility of imminent grief and death forces one to turn one's eyes to God and hope in his promises.

Andy HoodHealth & MedicineFormation

The Distortion of Vulnerability

Weber's ‘iron cage’ of modernity distorts Christian life and community in countless ways. One of the most pertinent concerns the idea of vulnerability.