What fandom offers us is precisely the thing that virtually every other facet of our culture wants to take away: Self-forgetfulness.
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Author: Samuel D. James
Reading Towards Bethlehem
The church owes Karen Swallow Prior a debt of gratitude for reminding us of the spiritual power of imagination.
Death By Minutia
So many things that we modern people add to our lives are utterly trivial. This is a spiritual AND political problem.
Has Trump De-Legitimized the Pro-Life Movement?
My answer in First Things: No. Excerpt: Warnings about the optics of Trump as a leader of religious conservatives aren’t totally misguided. Trump’s pro-life politics almost certainly arise from convention and convenience, rather than conviction. His rhetoric is incompatible with a holistically Christian worldview, and there may be some political blowback to the pro-life agenda …
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Doctrine Is Inevitable
A decade later, the Emergent Church discovers that you DO need boundaries. Just the right ones.
Don’t Argue Like Those Who Have No Hope
Christians seem hopelessly captive to the same news cycle, the same polarization, and the same grievances as unbelievers. This is tragic.
When Re-Conversion Is Easier Than Repentance
Many evangelical church cultures make it safer to deny last year's Christianity than to admit you are a struggling believer.
Leather Bound
Digital Bible apps are convenient, but physical Bibles are much more.
The Conservative Soul of Soccer
Soccer, with its order and slow, drudging progress, offers an inviting metaphor in our speed-obsessed culture.
Contempt Is Not a Cure: C.S. Lewis on Owning the Elites
Why C.S. Lewis would have rebuked a common conservative attitude as the work of the devil.
