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Love, Language, and The Lost Princess: What Murcia Taught Me

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

How To Live Forever: Bryan Johnson and the Mind-Body Relationship

Bryan Johnson is an extreme example of body/mind duality, and his religious commitment to biological health should be heeded as a warning.

Encountering the Gospel in Brittany Fichter’s Before Beauty

The gospel is woven so deeply into the fabric of this tale that it preached to me.

Can Christ Speak Through DJs? EDM Provides a Soundtrack for Metamodern Longing

EDM allows young people to lay down pretense and come clean about their desires.

Avatar vs. Avatar: A Christian Case for Nonviolence Even in the Face of Injustice

It’s by Christ’s death that we can love our enemies, seek peace with those that want to harm us, and refuse to take vengeance when we are wronged.

Why Should Christians Care About Quantum Physics?

The appeal of the multiverse metaphor in everyday conversation is that it functions as an anaesthetic for regret and makes decisions feel less weighty.

“I Am My Father’s Son”: Stephen Wilson, Jr., Wendell Berry, and the Myth of Self-Creation

Wilson’s songs trace the long, difficult movement where inheritance becomes not just a burden but a belonging.

Discovering a Sacramental Worldview Through Project Hail Mary

Some of the most glorious expressions of goodness and beauty can be found in art that has no direct affiliation with Christianity.

Look at the Birds of the Air: Weathering Change Teaches Us to Trust

Courtney Ellis’s careful observations of nature teach her, and us, to find peace during the hardest transitions.

Rediscovering the Imago Dei and Humanity’s Purpose in Hades II

Supergiant’s acclaimed game serves as fertile ground on which to engage with the concept of the imago Dei, a historically misunderstood doctrine of Christianity.

Maybe We Shouldn’t Celebrate People’s Deaths

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?

Getting Older Doesn’t Have to Mean Getting Meaner

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

When the Church Treats Sadness Like the Villain: What Pixar’s Inside Out Gets Right About Grief

Sadness is not the enemy of faithfulness, and the impulse to suppress it may do more harm than the grief itself.

Clarifying Christ and Pop Culture’s AI Policy

We believe that writing is best when it comes straight from the human heart, mind, and soul without any intervening artificial intelligence.

Subjects of the Machine and the Spirit of Revolt: A Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s Latest Book

Against the Machine is not just a complaint about technological fetishism and overreach. The Machine is also within us.

Let’s Be Yearny: What Celibacy Taught Me about Sexual Desire

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