Articles

I write about theology, politics, and place and how the three are interrelated.

On Actually Reading What People Actually Say

When you actually read what people have written about a topic, you'll often find that the reality is far more complex than Twitter memes and tribalism allow for.
Mere Orthodoxy

The PR Style in Christian Media

What should we learn from the Josh Butler "Beautiful Union" fiasco?
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Renewing Public Protestantism: Online Media

How can online media help in the work of renewing public Protestantism?
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Evangelistic Postures

On how missionally engaged evangelicals can adopt postures that limit their effectiveness
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Toward a Renewed Public Protestantism: The Beginnings of a Manifesto

What is needed right now is not that evangelicalism would be saved, but that a publicly engaged Protestantism would be revived.
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Once More Regarding the Uselessness of “Christian Nationalism”

More on the problems with how sociologists have defined "Christian nationalism."
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Education, Catechesis, and the State

Notes on the role the state can and cannot play in shaping the minds of her citizens.
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The Reality of Fear and the Presence of Reality

This is the text of my keynote lecture given at the 2023 Eighth Day Institute symposium in Wichita, KS.
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To Consume

The dominant cultural motif of consumption is an acid that harms virtually everything it touches.
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The Right Instructions

On why it is essential that we adopt a non-anxious, actually adult-like posture in a moment of deep uncertainty.
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Tolkien Was Right: Notes on the Respect for Marriage Act and the Post-Boomer Church

On why you shouldn't support the respect for marriage act (RFMA)
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Christianity Against the Civilizational States

Our emerging cultural order will present far sharper, more direct challenges to Christians seeking to live faithfully.
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Threnody for a Good Man

An obituary for a family friend
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Panic

When panic is our primary mode of public engagement, we simply guarantee our own failure and long-term irrelevance.
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On Mr. Berry and Professor Jennings

If you compare Wendell Berry's past writing on race with the work of Willie Jennings, the similarities are striking.
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