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September 2025

September 16, 2025

“Why Have You Forsaken Me?” and the Problem of Evil

Matthew 27:46 is one of the most unsettling verses in all of Scripture. As Jesus...

September 02, 2025

Why “Jesus Died the Death I Deserve” Misses the Point

A common phrase in contemporary evangelical theology is "Jesus died the death I deserve." You'll...

August 2025

August 19, 2025

Doubt Is the New Dogma

doubt doesn’t keep you safe. It keeps you stuck. It doesn’t protect you—it paralyzes you....

August 05, 2025

The Paradox of Pride

Pride is strange. We rarely see its real shape because it’s usually cloaked in comparison—...

July 2025

July 22, 2025

What motivates obedience when I don’t want to obey?

What does true obedience to God look like—and what doesn’t it look like? This isn’t...

July 08, 2025

What if we cared about God’s reputation more than our own?

What if, instead of working so hard to make ourselves look good, we poured that...

June 2025

June 24, 2025

Hypocrisy in the Bible. Doing Right Things for Wrong Reasons

Hypocrisy isn’t just about inconsistency or moral failure; it’s about doing the right things for...

June 10, 2025

Glory, Violence, and the Gospel of Peace

Today’s guest post by Werner Mischke is an excerpt from his new book One New...

May 2025

May 27, 2025

Praise Is Not a Proxy for God’s Acceptance

We live in an age of relentless self-promotion. Whether on social media or in ministry...

May 13, 2025

How Dostoevsky Uses Honor and Shame in Crime and Punishment

While rereading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment recently, I'm stuck by its enduring relevance for us...

April 2025

April 29, 2025

Why Egalitarians Can Stay in a Complementarian Church

If you’re convinced the Bible affirms women preaching and leading, what do you do when...

April 15, 2025

Rediscovering Adults’ Role in Honor and Protection

Check out Freya India's “The Need for Adults” if you want to read a powerful...

April 01, 2025

The War on the Western Church

A troubling trend is to reduce the West to a collection of its worst sins....

March 2025

March 18, 2025

Weaponized Shame in Western Cultures

In Western culture today, shame has become a potent tool, often used in ways that...

March 04, 2025

Pride Economy: When Passion Becomes Workplace Exploitation

What is a Pride Economy? In Stolen Pride, Arlie Hochschild shares how powerful dynamics of...

February 2025

February 18, 2025

How to be a tribal church

Michael Morris’s Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together...

February 04, 2025

Tribal is a book worth reading!

In Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together, Michael...

January 2025

January 21, 2025

Is the Drive for Recognition the Root of Inequality?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Second Discourse on the Origins of Human Inequality offers a critical examination of the...

January 07, 2025

How Rousseau Steers the West Wrongly to Individualism

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often celebrated as a champion of liberty, individualism, and natural human goodness....

December 2024

December 10, 2024

The Inherent Contradiction of Wokeness

In recent years, “wokeness” has become a cultural phenomenon that is difficult to define precisely,...

November 2024

November 26, 2024

Honor and Shame in Shakespeare’s Othello

In this second post in the series, we look at ways that honor and shame...

November 12, 2024

Honor and Shame in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Over the years, I’ve tried showing how Western cultures care about honor and shame. These...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

3 reasons you should not be your “authentic self”

The call to be our "authentic self" is a popular mantra in today's world, where...

October 15, 2024

What Galatians Says about Christian Nationalism

Many are concerned about Christian nationalism in the American church, but few address what the...

October 01, 2024

Peter teaches that weakness and setbacks are not failure

In Luke 22:31-32, Jesus offers a profound lesson on the nature of failure, weakness, and...

September 2024

September 17, 2024

Worship Through Attention: Guarding Against Idolatry

In this series, I’ve stressed the point in multiple ways: In our world teeming with...

September 03, 2024

From Distraction to Focus on Jesus

In our distraction-filled world, the ability to focus stands out as a rare and valuable...

August 2024

August 20, 2024

Attention is a type of currency in the Christian life

In today's world, distractions are endless and time feels fleeting. And so, attention has become...

August 06, 2024

“I’ll be wherever you call me.”

We might say “I’ll go wherever you send me,” but will we be wherever he...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Biblical Foundations for Local Embodiment

I previously highlighted a dynamic in which we say we will “go wherever” God calls...

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