Rewilding American Christianity
by Justin LeeWhat does it mean to cultivate Christian wildness in North America? There are few markers of deep memory by which to orient ourselves to the work of concentration. Continue Reading »
The Strangeness of the Resurrection
by John WilsonCan anything we ever learn about history, about the universe, about ourselves compare with that reality in its sheer strangeness and wonderful improbability? He is risen; he is risen indeed. Continue Reading »
Reformed Christians and Lent
by R. Scott ClarkGiven the rejection of Lent by the early Reformed theologians and all the Reformed churches, why are Reformed Christians now attracted to the Lenten season? Continue Reading »
Baptizing the Status Quo, Then and Now
by Carl R. TruemanProgressive Christians are replicating one of the oldest ecclesiastical sins of all—conformity to the world, just like their slaveholding ancestors. Continue Reading »
Sharp Compassion
by Nathan M. AntielAnna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »
Anointed with Clay
by Hans BoersmaThis is the gospel of Lent: He anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Continue Reading »
Taking the Founders at Their Word
by Brad LittlejohnThe founding consensus combined a salutary emphasis on the necessity of public religion and broadly Christian moral foundations with a liberal forbearance from specifying or enforcing confessional particulars. Continue Reading »
Twelve Propositions for Pastors
by Peter J. LeithartA meeting of pastor and president is a meeting of two kings, one of whom is ordained to represent the King of heaven. Continue Reading »
Gratitude and the Asbury Revival
by Kent DunningtonGrowth in gratitude to God is reflected not by having ever more spontaneous feelings of gratitude to God when life goes well, but rather by having an ever greater ability to live non-resentfully even when it does not. Continue Reading »
Revolutionary Christian Cinema
by John MurdockJesus Revolution is a tale ripe for the excesses of made-by-evangelicals filmmaking, where drama often morphs into preachy melodrama. But, to their credit, the filmmaking team largely resists those temptations. Continue Reading »
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