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Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care

The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.

James WoodFormation

Suffering as Spiritual Formation

When spiritual formation comes up we think of scripture reading or prayer or a rule of life. But the suffering we don't choose can be enormously formative.

Wyatt GrahamTechnologyFormation

When We Become the Product: Heidegger, Han, and Digital Enframing

Digital technology orders the world and ourselves as resources ready for market, a process Heidegger calls enframing and Han traces into the digital age.

David J. ChamberlinCultureChurchFormation

A Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership

Retired US Navy Vice Admiral John Scott Redd developed a framework for defining virtuous leadership which can apply in a variety of settings.

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.