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September 2013

September 06, 2013

The Economy of Desire

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer admonishes Christians who have bought into the theology of...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Charles Murray, Dorothy Day, and Embedded Journalism

One of the things we try to do with Fare Forward is find, learn from,...

July 2013

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 05, 2013

The Gospel of Authenticity

In last Saturday’s New York Times, Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster critique the “pursuit of...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

The Theo-Logic of Costly Adoption

The New York Times recently ran an article entitled “Eager to Adopt, Evangelicals Find Children,...

June 10, 2013

Literature and the Moral Life

During a class discussion in college, I recall one of my English professors off-handedly commenting,...

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 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 26, 2013

On The Moral Qualities of Privilege

In light of Sarah Ngu's recent post on privilege, I'd like to offer some rough...

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 10, 2013

Father Brown and the Reality of Sin

I have now read about half of the total collection of stories featuring Father Brown,...

April 05, 2013

Reclaiming Carpe Diem

Jack Black once said, "I am fairly certain that 'YOLO' is 'Carpe Diem' for stupid...

March 2013

March 05, 2013

Education: Outcomes > Values

David Brooks’ recent NYT op-ed featured Brown professor Jin Li’s research on the comparative values of...