How One Christian School Addressed Critical Theory

by Bradley G. Green

“The Augustine School Statement on Social Theory” is a helpful guide to navigating some of the harmful ideologies and social theories of our day.
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22 Nov 2022

Turning from Calamity

by Hans Boersma

It is as if heaven itself turns down to the earth, while simultaneously, the earth turns up to the sky. The kiss of righteousness and peace is the Advent kiss of the hypostatic union of God and man. Continue Reading »

9 Dec 2021

A Godless Great Awakening

by Joshua Mitchell

Identity politics provides a cheap shortcut to redemption, a fig leaf that hides man from his own darkened heart. Continue Reading »

2 Jul 2020

Making Sense of Hell

by Dan Hitchens

The doctrine of hell is coming under particular pressure at the moment. Continue Reading »

7 Mar 2019

Evangelical Apocalypse

by Dale M. Coulter

We have to face issues of sexual abuse head on—the truth of the gospel is at stake.   Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2019

Sin Aboundeth

by Dan Hitchens

At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2019

Cleansed and Conformed to God’s Will

by George Weigel

That the Church needs cleansing is not much in doubt as Advent 2018 dawns. Continue Reading »

28 Nov 2018

Stealing Pears

by Duane K. Caylor

Iniquity, O Lord, can be delicious:always in season, always tender, sweet,blushing, and aromatic. Not capriciousit always hangs low, begging us to eat.One night, I stripped a neighbor’s tree of pears—not grade A pears, but seconds grown for swine—taking them not because the fruit was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

God as Therapy in The Shack

by Connor Grubaugh

There is neither sin nor suffering in The Shack—only the psychotherapeutic notion of “pain,” which encapsulates them both. Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2017

Sin in a Time of Accompaniment

by Aaron Taylor

If we tried translating Verlaine’s spiritual writing into the language of accompaniment and integration, we would be exchanging great religious art for soulless bureaucratic jargon. Continue Reading »

19 Dec 2016