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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?

Nadya WilliamsChurchBooksFormation

Preparing for Lent and Easter with a Cloud of Witnesses

The new edition of Plough's Lent and Easter reader features 96 texts that will help us remember the strange anticipation and hope of the Christian faith.

Matthew AdamsChurchFormation

Unreasonable Hospitality and the Ordinary Work of the Church

Churches are often good at transactions and routines. But while structure is important, if it is not paired with genuine care, it is insufficient.

Phil WoodwardTechnologyFormation

Why and How to Give Up Your Smartphone

Learn from someone who has never owned a smartphone how to adjust your life and tech users so that you can live smartphone free.

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 WaxChurchBooksFormation

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.