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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.

Elizabeth EstherFormationMental Health

God in the Psych Ward

This is me telling you there is hope.

Houston ColeyFormation

A Kingdom of Tea and Strangers

L'Abri is a Christian community that exists to help people understand that 'Christ did not come to make us Christian; Christ came to make us fully human.'

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryFormation

Calendars as Catechesis

Calendars are teachers. And this week our calendar teaches us to give thanks.

Jake MeadorFormation

Christ or the Pit

If Our Lord will not bruise broken reeds, then neither should his followers.

Drake OsbornWorkEconomics and BusinessFormation

The Ends of Work

Rest is not a reprieve from work, but rather is one part of a fruitful human life, existing peaceably next to work.