General Culture Archives

Learning a foreign language, and making consistent efforts to communicate with its native speakers, cultivates godly maturity.

Are we crying out for justice so that God might reveal himself to a broken world? Or do we just want to look righteous on social media?

The popular “grumpy old man” narrative trope is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. But should it be?

Our desire for intimacy is just one expression of a deeper human truth: we are creatures who yearn.

Maybe our lesson from 1985 and 2025 is to be strengthened in the three hopes of Scripture, in giving the past, present, and future over to God.

These were our most popular articles throughout the year that was 2025.

Hope, love, joy, and peace are ours in grappling with the realities of death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

Spooky Season and the waning of the year is a regularly scheduled encounter with death, and I draw tremendous comfort from it.

God doesn’t always show up in church pews or devotionals. Sometimes he shows up in habits that hold you when your faith feels quiet.

Returning to the books and movies and games that marked us in our younger years, we remember that who we are is still, in some way, who we were.

Our aim is not to baptize the mythology of aliens, but to ask how Christian theology might responsibly interpret the discovery of non-human life.

The shock of something outside our own narrow range of experience is a much-needed spiritual tonic for all of us today.

Wallace presents various insights scattered like seeds throughout the book, though perhaps not as many sustained analyses as one might hope.

Is there intrinsic merit to a vinyl spin versus a Spotify stream?

The metamodern mood is hopeful but cautious, sincere but self-aware, believing while doubting all the same.

Cottagecore invites us to notice the loveliness in the ordinary, experience the natural world, and know that our lives are important.