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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.

Haley BaumeisterFamilyTechnologyFormation

The Case Against Vasectomies

The glib way in which many evangelicals approach procedures like vasectomies is indicative of how superficial our understanding of sexuality often is.

Derek RishmawyCultureFormation

Holy Ambitions, Large and Small

The sin of unbelief can destroy large, well-known ministries. But it can equally prevent qualified leaders from pursuing the grand works God calls them to.

Ian HarberFormationMental Health

The Christian in a Therapeutic Age

Living in a therapeutic cultural moment creates unique challenges and complexities for Christian life and ministry.

Joshua HeavinFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

The Church Will Not Be Consulted - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In recent years it has become increasingly popular for churches of differing sizes, locations, and denominational traditions to make use of consultant services to find new ministers and staff for Christian institutions. If you browse the denominational job boards of […]

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Drunk Tears on a Barren Sea: Augustinian Reflections on Desire

Misshapen desires are self-defeating, and so will eventually bring us to tears.