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July 2013

July 31, 2013

Millennial Presumptions

Rachel Held Evans’ latest post at CNN's religion blog has stirred up controversy in just...

July 24, 2013

On Honesty and Confession

Does a moral, psychological “point of no return” exist? Shakespeare illustrates what this turning point...

July 22, 2013

Short-term Missions, Long-term Places

The Gospel Coalition recently posted an article by Darren Carlson entitled “Why You Should Consider...

July 17, 2013

Public Christianity and Faithful Institutional Presence

This weekend I had the privilege of gathering with a group of Fare Forward writers...

July 08, 2013

Lumen Fidei: FF Writers React

Michael Hannon: Lumen Fidei is a fine title for Pope Francis’ first encyclical, but I...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

How Should We Spend Our Goodwill?

The New York Times reports on the controversy over the presence of Christian religious symbols...

June 12, 2013

What We Can Learn from Young Atheists

Recently The Atlantic posted an article entitled, “Listening to Young Atheists, Lessons for a Stronger...

June 06, 2013

Doubting the Value of Doubt

Writing about John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, "I could not have believed...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

Orthodoxy Has Won?

In an interesting read from Time Magazine, Mary Eberstat, author of this new book on secularism,...

May 08, 2013

The Real Case Against the Suburbs, or, How Ought Christians to Think About the Common Good?

Over at Mere O, Keith Miller has been kind enough to respond to a piece...

May 03, 2013

Should We Buy Houses?

At the end of yesterday's post, the editors called for a renewed attempt to distinguish...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

Why Don’t We Talk About Friendship More?

This weekend, I was blessed to have the opportunity to hear Wesley Hill, the author of Washed...

April 16, 2013

The Decline of Dawkins and the Dawn of Deliberative Doubt

In March 2012, a crowd of atheists flocked to the National Mall in Washington, DC...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Persuading Isn’t Just about Argumentation

This week First Things ran an excellent article entitled "Pope Francis and the Clash of Revelations."...

March 24, 2013

Avoiding Civilizational Hard Ceilings

I recently wrote about an interview I conducted with sociologist Robert Bellah in preparation...

March 23, 2013

Introducing the Sacrallennials

Over at Juicy Ecumenism, guest poster Thomas Holgrave (of the worth-checking-out blog The Hipster...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

What I’ve Learned from Communion

Growing up, my church observed “Lord’s Supper” once a quarter. Every three months, an extra...

February 18, 2013

Charles Taylor on the Future of Religion

From A Secular Age: One future, which flows out of mainline secularization theory, sees...