Articles, Essays, and Reviews
Spiritual Formation

Book Review: Scrolling Ourselves to Death Edited by Brett McCracken & Ivan Mesa
“Sadly, many Christians default toward a naive embrace of technology as a neutral or merely pragmatic tool to be harnessed...

Book Review: Christian Smith’s Why Religion Became Obsolete – The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
Why did the church I grew up in close its doors?Why have 26 Christian colleges and seminaries shut down or...

Substack Can’t Save My Soul (But I Keep Checking Anyway): A Lament from Digital Babylon
Photo by Prateek Gautam on UnsplashStill a bit groggy, I made my way to the kitchen to get the morning...

God, Is This You?
Over the years, one of my greatest struggles has been learning to discern the difference between the hand of God,...

#7. Modernity: When the Gospel Became a Formula
Do you remember the first time you heard the gospel? Was it from a pulpit, at Vacation Bible School, in...

#5. The Enlightenment: An Alternative Story
“It’s just business,” my friend said. He was in his mid-20s, strong, ambitious, and driven. Born in Russia, he had...

#4. Moral Therapeutic Deism: The God of American Comfort
Patrick Mahomes, quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, has already cemented his place as one of the greatest quarterbacks in...

#1 Gnosticism: Escape from the World, Get to Heaven
There are many versions of Christianity and many competing gospels in America. It’s a shame, but it’s true. Some things...

Book Review—Beyond Racial Division
These days racial issues feel as if they are always front and center. In some ways this is decidedly good...

“When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.”
2 Timothy 4:13
