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Cory BarnesBibleFormation

At His Right Hand Are Pleasures Forevermore

Lady Folly promises much, but she can't deliver because all true pleasures come from God.

Matthew ArboHealth & MedicineFormationMental Health

We Would Rather Be Ruined Than Changed: Anxiety as a Moral Concept

Anxiety should not be pathologized, for then we will not recognize it as a normal part of being human or as something that can be endured with divine help.

Ross ByrdFormation

Why We Fast

Fasting has always been part of Christian piety, though it is seldom practiced today. These are three reasons you should practice fasting.

Joshua HeavinFormation

Being Human on World Down Syndrome Day

World Down Syndrome Day is an excellent opportunity to contemplate how human beings relate to time.

Christina StantonChurchFormation

New One

One Mokgatle serves as a regional director for southern Africa with Acts 29. This is his story of how God saved and called him to ministry.

Jake MeadorTechnologyEthicsChurchFormation

What Can Natural Law Do?

The technological challenges we will soon face are not the sort that can be defeated primarily through reason and argumentation.

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

Initial Notes on Ministry in a Therapeutic Age

While therapy and counseling can be a great good, they also can slide into a totalizing system that undercuts Christian discipleship.

Jake MeadorEthicsFormation

What I Saw at the We Who Wrestle with God Tour

Is mercy a vice or a virtue? I think most of us want it to be the latter. But on the logic of Jordan Peterson's intellectual system, it might be a vice.

T. M. SuffieldFormation

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

What did Jesus mean when he said that those who mourn are blessed?

Matthew Lee AndersonFormationLent

Raising the Floor: On the Value of Asceticism

Ascetical practices are helpful because they induce crisis in ways that change us without destroying us.

Erin AhnfeldtEducationFormation

The Worst Thing Was Not the Last

Christians know that the worst things are not the last, as one public school teacher was reminded recently following a tragedy in his school.

Mitch EastFormation

The Gospel Is About Going to Heaven When You Die

In attempting to emphasize the resurrection we shouldn't dismiss the intermediate state. If we are in Christ we really will go to heaven when we die.