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A. A. KostasFormation

Tramping Out of Dante's Hell

Instead of focusing on what is wrong and distasteful about our world, focus on what you want your life to be about and move doggedly in that direction.

Eddie LaRowCultureFormation

The Rise of the Skilled (and Lonely) Consumer

Cultivating friendship with others in a society set for loneliness requires deliberate choosing and commitment and even sacrifice.

Trevin WaxChurchBook ReviewsFormation

The Rise and Fall of Confession—and What It Reveals

The collapse of confession in Catholic America may seem like a story about Rome, but it reveals something true about us all.

Alan NobleFormation

Courage and the Loneliness Crisis

Many of the fears that drive us toward isolation are not wholly wrong or misguided. What is needed is a way of overcoming those anxieties.

Elizabeth SticeFormation

The Good News About Bad Work Days

A large portion of our fidelity at work consists not in finding the just-right vocation, but in persisting in holiness and love when work is unsatisfying.

Hayden NesbitFormation

Soul Care in a Collapsed Age

The collapse of context, history, and even basic character depth all makes the task of soul care more difficult and complex.

Jakob Y. KimFormation

The Dark Triad and the Death of Repentance

What becomes of repentance when grief is absent—when there are no tears? When sin is rebranded as strength, and guilt is reframed as pathology?

John EhrettFormation

How to Have a Day Job and an Intellectual Life

It is entirely possible to have a robust intellectual life outside of formal academic settings.

Andrew ArndtTheologyFormation

To Us a Child: A Christmas Sermon

A Christmas sermon from Rev. Andrew Arndt

Jim WildemanFormation

What One Urbanite Learned from Wendell Berry

Perhaps Mr Berry would think these are half measures. But to me they remain significant ways that his work has changed and improved my urban life.

Samuel JamesFilm Reviews/HollywoodFormation

The Ghost of Christmas Never

Many young men need to see heaven. They need a visitation from a future of hope they don’t currently have, the Ghost of Christmas Never.

Drake OsbornTechnologyChurchFormation

What is Technology Good For?

We can and should distinguish between technologies that primarily preserve, technologies that primarily produce, and technologies that primarily form.