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Casey ShuttTheologyFormation

Bari Weiss, Amanda Knox, and the Intrusion of Grace

Even when we don't recognize its source in Christianity, we all recognize and often need the power of grace.

Mitch EastFamilyCultureFormation

The Separation of Woman and Womb: A Warning

If we imagine some not unlikely future forms of biomedical tech we will quickly realize how inadequate much Christian thinking about bioethics has been.

Ian HarberTechnologyFormation

Monk or Missionary: Christian Approaches to Social Media

Given the now obvious dangers inherent to social media use, two primary options remain for Christians: to become a digital missionary... or digital monk.

Drake OsbornFormation

Found in the Cosmos: Holiness and the Therapeutic

A robust understanding of holiness presents an alternative form of life, set against both the therapeutic and the rationalistic.

Amy MantravadiBook ReviewsFormation

Medieval Wisdom for Modern Readers

Grace Hamman's 'Ask of Old Paths' is an account of virtue that is simultaneously conversant with the contemporary world and grounded in the medieval.

Jeremy SextonCultureChurchFormation

Doug Wilson Is Not a Prophet

Doug Wilson's 'serrated edge' substitutes lampoon for lament and crosses into language Scripture forbids.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchFormation

Becoming the Given: Christian Belonging After the Therapeutic

The therapeutic has emerged as a 'secular methodism' of sorts which we use as an attempt to cope with a world without stories, meaning, or belonging.

Elizabeth SticeTechnologyFormation

The Real You

It’s not the real world, but it is the real you.

Katelyn Walls SheltonFamilySexualityFormation

Sexuality and the Need for Moral Guidance

While it may sometimes be awkward, Christians should be talking more about sex, not less.

Jim WildemanFormation

An Encomium for Carol

It is good to speak well of our beloved friends and family while we may, so that they know what they have meant to us even while they still live.

Nadya WilliamsBook ReviewsFormation

Seeking a Life Well Lived

Karen Swallow Prior's new book won't tell you what job to take. But if you desire counsel about how to live well, this book will deliver.

Elizabeth SticeFormation

The Gift of a Toothache

While no sane person would say, like Dostoevsky's Underground Man, that toothache is 'enjoyable', such banal pains can be spiritually enlightening.