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April 2026

April 14, 2026
One of the great confusions of modern Western culture is that we've learned to use...

March 2026

March 31, 2026
Some books wear their theology on the surface. Others do not say much about God...
March 17, 2026
A strange thing happened in one of my classes recently. It was one of those...
March 03, 2026
What exactly is atonement? Despite its importance, this question receives oversimplified answers that miss the...

February 2026

February 17, 2026
What if pleasure is associated with dopamine and joy with oxytocin? How might that help...
February 04, 2026
We're in a quiet crisis in education, and it's not primarily a technological one. It's...

January 2026

January 20, 2026
Few figures in literature express a more striking theology of repentance and responsibility than Elder...
January 06, 2026
In a recent conversation, someone in our group posed the question, “Is it rational to...

December 2025

December 09, 2025
Mary’s Magnificat bursts with themes of honor and shame that resonate deeply with the cultural...

November 2025

November 25, 2025
In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky’s protagonist, Raskolnikov, offers a chilling simplification of the human condition:...
November 11, 2025
Popular evangelical theology often reduces Israel’s sacrificial system to a simple blood transaction: God punishes...

October 2025

October 28, 2025
Self-ambition is a cancer. It'd rather be famous than faithful. Modern self-ambition is a theological...
October 14, 2025
Should we emphasize Jesus as King to people who don't have kings? Ought we still...

September 2025

September 30, 2025
Israel’s temple functioned as theological statements about God’s design for creation and the nature of...
September 16, 2025
Matthew 27:46 is one of the most unsettling verses in all of Scripture. As Jesus...
September 02, 2025
A common phrase in contemporary evangelical theology is "Jesus died the death I deserve." You'll...

August 2025

August 19, 2025
doubt doesn’t keep you safe. It keeps you stuck. It doesn’t protect you—it paralyzes you....
August 05, 2025
Pride is strange. We rarely see its real shape because it’s usually cloaked in comparison—...

July 2025

July 22, 2025
What does true obedience to God look like—and what doesn’t it look like? This isn’t...
July 08, 2025
What if, instead of working so hard to make ourselves look good, we poured that...

June 2025

June 24, 2025
Hypocrisy isn’t just about inconsistency or moral failure; it’s about doing the right things for...
June 10, 2025
Today’s guest post by Werner Mischke is an excerpt from his new book One New...

May 2025

May 27, 2025
We live in an age of relentless self-promotion. Whether on social media or in ministry...
May 13, 2025
While rereading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment recently, I'm stuck by its enduring relevance for us...

April 2025

April 29, 2025
If you’re convinced the Bible affirms women preaching and leading, what do you do when...
April 15, 2025
Check out Freya India's “The Need for Adults” if you want to read a powerful...
April 01, 2025
A troubling trend is to reduce the West to a collection of its worst sins....

March 2025

March 18, 2025
In Western culture today, shame has become a potent tool, often used in ways that...
March 04, 2025
What is a Pride Economy? In Stolen Pride, Arlie Hochschild shares how powerful dynamics of...

February 2025

February 18, 2025
Michael Morris’s Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together...
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