Church Disappointment Is Multilayered

Why are people leaving the church or their faith behind? Some answers boil down to platitudes, like a supposed desire to pursue a sinful lifestyle. But apologist Lisa Fields has found the reasons to be much more complex. Fields, founder of the Jude 3 Project, which equips Black Christians to know what they believe and Read more…

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The Internet’s Sins Are Our Sins. But It Shouldn’t Escape All Blame.

Americans tend to be optimists about technology. We see it as a means of progress, comfort, wealth, and discovery. And why not? Technology has treated us well, and very few among us would pooh-pooh the engine, the hot water heater, the refrigerator, the word processor, the text message. In technology—it might be a mild blasphemy Read more…

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The Internet’s Sins Are Our Sins. But It Shouldn’t Escape All Blame.

Americans tend to be optimists about technology. We see it as a means of progress, comfort, wealth, and discovery. And why not? Technology has treated us well, and very few among us would pooh-pooh the engine, the hot water heater, the refrigerator, the word processor, the text message. In technology—it might be a mild blasphemy Read more…

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Modern ‘Technoculture’ Makes the World Feel Unnaturally Godless

In his 1996 novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies, John Updike has a fictional Reformed Presbyterian minister feel his faith abandon him like an exhale, leaving his “habitual mental contortions decisively relaxed.” For this minister, the experience was one of relief, “an immense strain of justification” lifted “at a blow.” Unbelief, in this sense, Read more…

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Safety Shouldn’t Come First

You may be tempted to read The Pursuit of Safety: A Theology of Danger, Risk, and Security with an eye toward determining whether and to what extent its author, Wheaton College theologian Jeremy Lundgren, agrees with your own risk assessments and safety measures. Don’t. Though Lundgren leaves some hints about where he lands on discrete Read more…

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