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Nathaniel MarshallBook ReviewsFormationJournalWinter 2026

To Dabble or Not to Dabble

Amateurism is wonderful, but asking it to serve as a subversion of capitalism and hustle culture is to misunderstand what it is.

Austin GravleyCultureTechnologyFormation

The State of the Internet: 2026

The first ever State of the Internet report from Mere Orthodoxy

Matt ReynoldsBook ReviewsFormation

On Judging Books

There are times when the work of understanding why a book fails and taking the time to explain that can be immensely worthwhile.

Gracy OlmsteadChurchBook ReviewsFormationJournalWinter 2026

The Garden and the Liturgy

Both the church calendar and the work of gardening are reminders of our mortality and an exhortation to prepare for the world to come.

Peter BilesFormation

What Grief Can Teach

C.S. Lewis was right. Attach yourself to anything, even an animal, and you risk heartbreak.

Ian HarberTechnologyBook ReviewsFormation

Life with the Machines

When it comes to wisely engaging with new tech, we need options besides 'limit screen time' and 'bomb data centers.'

Jake MeadorFormation

The Bright Sadness of Ben Sasse

Ben Sasse has made a gift of his dying, something which he can do only because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

Formed by Song: How Music Shapes the Christian Life

Throughout church history the great teachers of the faith have commended music to us as a vehicle for living the Christian life.

Adam FinkneyChurchFormation

Tradition Didn’t Kill My Faith. Amnesia Almost Did.

I didn’t lose my faith because Christianity asked too much of me. I nearly lost it because it asked too little.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Liturgies of the Wild and Non-Expressivist Religion

If you want people to be bewildered by church, then church needs to be weird in some way.

David HenrecksonEducationFormation

Moral and Spiritual Hunger in the Classroom

If I’m upfront about my commitments, and offer an invitation to interrogate their commitments in light of our texts, the 'problem' of pluralism evaporates.

Ian HarberFamilyFormation

The Need for Father-Scholars

How many fathers could, like the author of the Proverbs, pass down a repository of wisdom about all of life to their children?