Articles

• Military Chaplains: Self-Help Professionals or Shepherds of Souls?

  The army gradually pushed out of its collective thinking any genuine consideration of the spiritual health of its force.

• The Heavens Are Still Declaring—and Not Just to Astronauts

  Being in space merely helped them to see with more clarity what creation has always been declaring.

• Why Our Age Celebrates Desecration

  Desecration is a heavy burden because it ultimately destroys even those who rejoice in it.

• Why George Saunders Can’t Stop Writing About the Afterlife

  Saunders isn’t writing just to instruct his followers in virtue. He’s trying to find the good and virtuous path himself.

• Why Aren’t Christians Funny?

  For the Christian, laughter is an enacted confession that evil doesn’t have the final word.

• Advice for New Elders: Take the Low Seat

  In Christ’s kingdom, the way up is down. It’s true at wedding feasts. And it’s true in elder meetings. 

• On My Shelf: Life and Books with Betsy Childs Howard

  Betsy Childs Howard talks about what’s on her bedside table, favorite fiction, favorite rereads, and more.

• Working Without Recognition: Finding Motivation When No One Seems to Notice

  God created us to work and intends for our work to matter.

• Why Nietzsche Was Wrong About Weakness

  God’s love for us is often proven when he uses suffering to turn us away from pride and toward deeper dependence on him.

• Easter Is the Most Ordinary Day in History

  Easter only appears extraordinary because it’s the first time in all of human history that someone walked out the other side of death and announced, ‘This is what normal looks like.’

• The Verse That Helped My Spiritual Anxiety

  As I carefully considered Paul’s teaching in 2 Corinthians 5:17, I found help to lay aside my anxiety over my sin and rest in Christ’s righteousness.

• Remember Your Death at Easter

  To remember your death is to remember your Lord. That’s why we need the forgotten practice of ‘memento mori,’ perhaps especially at Easter.

• Serve Like You Know Who You Are

  We need to secure our threatened identity against the vagaries of circumstance and public opinion if we’re going to transcend our egos.

• With the Resurrection, the Evidence Tells the Story

  The resurrection is the best explanation for the historical evidence. The New Testament shows it was a core belief of the early Christians.

• How the Legal System Is Dismantling the Transgender Movement

  The fight is far from over, but the victories are mounting.

• Why I’m a Disabled Person, Not a Person with a Disability

  I was told, ‘You are not your disability. You are not your body.’ Well-meaning sentiment, but theologically untrue.

• How Not to Become the Villain in Your Child’s Testimony

  The gospel is the story of enemies becoming family. In Christ, our families can keep from becoming enemies through his love.

• When Did Jesus Die?

  In 2033, Passover and Good Friday will fall in the same week, as they did in the year of Jesus’s death.