Some faithful Christians refuse to read fiction. The reason cited is the same: If there is time to read, they’d rather read something true. Better to plow up a real field than a pretend one. Such prej...  Read More

IntroductionCreative people are needed because God demands a richer vocabulary than words can give. New eloquence is needed to move the borders of intelligibility. Yet, God didn’t make everyone to be ...  Read More

IntroductionJust because we ought not take ourselves too seriously doesn’t mean we ought not give serious reflection to the unconversable subject of death. Upon the occasion of his mother’s grave illn...  Read More

One doesn’t form memories. One is inhabited by them. The reason the world is in such a moral mess is that it is in the grip of a demonic inhabitation, willfully possessed by the dark daydreams of soli...  Read More

The recent movement of Hitler-love is full of moral stunts and scoops, intellectual bargaining, and self-promotion. It is a world as spiritually dead as the world of the PWC, also rejecting metaphysic...  Read More

Algorithms have ancient roots. The word itself comes from the 9th-century Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, whose Latin-transliterated name became “algorithm.” But algorithmic thinking predates him....  Read More

Joe Rigney’s recasting of Edwin Friedman’s A Failure of Nerve is insightful, relevant, practical, well-organized, and short. I highly recommend it for men, women, and teens. It also serves well for gr...  Read More

Brian’s Recommendations:1)    Charles Williams, Forgiveness (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1942)Charles Williams—poet, novelist, lay theologian, and one of the lesser-known...  Read More

Daniel’s RecommendationPatrick Kavanaugh, The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1992).We live in a culture where the forces of expressionism, postmodernism, nihilis...  Read More

When the Mayflower landed at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620, William Bradford wrote these words, a pseudo-prayer fitting for all who have suffered....  Read More

The people pleaser's goal isn't just to please people but to win their favor and earn their blessing, even if it costs them the favor and blessing of God....  Read More

American evangelicalism, which has boasted in creedlessness, is failing chiefly through the lack of them....  Read More