The Beguiling Search for Ourselves
Modern social media and technology have fashioned incurvatus en se into a way of life. Welcome, then, to the Era of Self-Focus.
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“To Shew the Truth Of the Evangelical Historie”: The Apologetics of Nathaniel Lardner
Lardner treated skeptical questions seriously and respectfully, and unlike many previous Christian apologists, he never resorted to invective or denigration when debating his skeptical opponents.
Surprised by Silence
God speaks. The Word makes. And we? Sometimes we must linger in the silence between.
Bringing Up Nietzsche
‘The Devil Reads Nietzsche’ is a timely resource for many Christians, who might feel beaten down by the skepticism and even nihilism of our times.
Learning from Rehoboam: Lessons on Leadership and Transitions
Solomon's son offers an alarming but instructive example of what can happen when leaders are vain and arrogant.
Constructing a Common Good
My confidence about families is fueled not so much by the normalizing of gender-neutral chore spreadsheets, but because I have seen so many astonishing young people working to make a life together.
Why You Should Read Josef Pieper
Pieper offers a generation inundated by irony, anxiety, productivity-obsession, and cynicism a unique account of joy based on recognizing the goodness of reality.
What is Union with Christ?
Union with Christ is not the kind of thing one grasps and then moves on from; it is an infinite, inexhaustible well that is the key to the whole of the Christian life.
Character for Communion: Ecumenical Habits of the Heart from Berkouwer and Echeverria
“This relation between unity and truth is one of the most urgent problems the Church has to face in our times.” -- G. C. Berkouwer
Being a Public School Kid
Mrs. Higuchi’s public school classroom was not 'woke.' It wasn't teaching 'toxic empathy.' Instead, it was something much more classically humanist. She taught love.
When Therapy Culture Comes to Church
Loftus's critique of therapeutic culture is not academic analysis as much as personal. He desires genuine healing precisely because of his close experience with sickness.
What to do When Authors We Love Sin
Our church library's little cull started as a judgement on the work and ministries of certain authors, but it was more than that.
In Praise of My Youth Pastor
Youth pastors get a bad rap today. Some for good reason. But I’ve never been able to personally identify with it. Maybe that’s because God gave me the best one a kid could ever ask for.
Why Your Church Should Use a Lectionary
Churches that utilize a lectionary will discover an ancient, faithful encounter with God’s word that highlights the rich harmonic interconnectedness of Scripture and the life of God's people.
The Problem of Christian Socialism
As socialism gains new influence in American public life, Christians face an old question with fresh urgency: can devotion to Christ and socialism truly coexist?
Protecting Our Humanity with... Robots?
I know my writing is human because a robot told me so.
Science and the Limits of the Possible
“Do not aspire to immortal life, O my soul; but exhaust the limits of the possible.” Pindar (Pyth. III.61–62)
American Evangelicals Long for the Embrace of the Machine God
No computer program can determine truth. But the authoritative-sounding voice and the ability to get an answer to any question that statistically feels right, even if it’s wrong, are beguiling.
The Magpie #6: Wilderness
What good nonfiction needs is the integrity of an author who knows what she thinks and takes ownership of it.
Living and Dying with the Saints in Wheaton
A time will come when we will know what all this is for. And there will be no mysteries. We will know why we live. We’ll come together. We’ll plan orchards. Fields. We’ll build the land back up.
Saying 'Here I Am' in the Digital Age
We must pray for hearts that desire not a fragile, fleeting sense of self that must be recreated each day while we await validation via notifications, but one that longs to join the mission of God.
Screwtape is Hiding in Your Pocket
While reading Vice President Vance’s second memoir, Communion, two dots connected as I reflected on my own transition from the analog to the digital world in the late ‘90s.