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Marry or Burn?

Is it strange to urge people to marry young? Is Paul's suggestion in 1 Corinthians 7 fit for our present culture of dating?

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Lavishness of Friendship and a World Beyond Vows

The lavishness of friendship takes us beyond vows and obligations. It is superogeratory.

Guest WriterFormation

A Joyful Indifference: A Reply from Tish Harrison-Warren

Tish Harrison-Warren replies to Matthew Lee Anderson about disrespectable Christianity and the joy Christians need.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

On Disrespectable Christianity

Christians often want respectability, even if they don't realize it. That's a good they should give up.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Mere Fidelity: On Sanctification

What role does the doctrine of sanctification play in the christian life?

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

The Ethics of Jayber Crow

In The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry Anthony Esolen notes that Berry’s longest Port William novel, Jayber Crow, is in many ways a modern day retelling of Dante. Berry’s own language throughout the book suggests the comparison, as his narrator, the […]

Kevin WhiteFormation

Words for the Anxious Soul

Worry and anxiety are common problems. So much of what we say to ourselves and others to help only hurts. What words speak well to the anxious?

Alastair RobertsFormation

The Dangers of Appealing to Personality Types

Personality types are popular within the church. Yet they have serious limitations that Christians should be aware of.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

How our Questioning Begins: A reply to Fare Foreward

“How then shall we begin?” Among the questions that a writer must answer, that is perhaps the most difficult. When it is time to make an ending, we have the entire body of work to that point to draw from […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

On Doubt and The End of our Exploring

I’ve been gratified by the responses to The End of our Exploring, even if I have said little about them. While it was left off the major “best of”

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Joy of Christmas: A Meditation

Christmas is a season of joy and sorrow, of suffering and death and life and light. This meditation by Matthew Lee Anderson explores these themes.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

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