Whilst giving good pause to examine ourselves, Du Mez’s history lacks both love and hope.
Contemporary Church
Faithful Presence in the Midst of Pluralism: Three Tensions
How should we live faithfully as Christians, with our distinctive beliefs, practices, and values, in an increasingly pluralistic age?
Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Why the Lord’s Supper Is Essential to Restoring the Evangelical Church
The Lord’s Supper is one of the most powerful cures for the ills of modern evangelicalism.
The Power of the Catholic Intellectual Ecosystem
Protestants have got nothing on Catholics here.
Get a Room! On Our Detrimental Misreading of C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity
Lewis’s illustration of the church as one corridor with many rooms has been badly misinterpreted by evangelicals.
The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience: A Review
A review of Simeon Zahl’s “The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience”, which addresses the disconnect between doctrine and experience.
Of Minds and Machines: Transhumanism and the Christian
Since the beginning of history, people have used technology to overcome various challenges. Bifocals, cars, artificial knees, smartphones: the history of humanity is littered with technologies designed to address the many limitations we face in our everyday lives.
You Are Whom You Admire: Admiration as Formation in the Christian Life
In seeking an answer to how we achieve deep and lasting Christian formation, modern Protestants have often operated by Francis Bacon’s famous precept: “knowledge is power.”
Christ and Caesar: A Response to John MacArthur
Last week, John MacArthur used his immense stature in the evangelical church to call Christians to civil disobedience. WE
Revisiting “The Shape Fallacy”: A Response to Ben Jefferies
I am concerned with something bigger than any one late modern prayer book: how the Dixian shift to thinking of the prayer book in terms of “shape” has affected the virtues of the prayer book tradition.