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Reconstructing Gaza

Jon D. Schaff   |  February 24, 2025

The fate of the Bibas family shows there is no real “deal” one can make with Hamas.

An open letter to the signers of the “For Wheaton” letter

Timothy Larsen   |  February 23, 2025

A Wheaton professor weighs in.

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 6)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 21, 2025

Communism to Theism

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 5)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 20, 2025

Addiction

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 4)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 19, 2025

Career to Careening

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 3)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 18, 2025

Philosophy to Journalism

Listening to Lincoln on Presidents’ Day

Gillis Harp   |  February 17, 2025

“In these early days of Trump’s second term, one recognizes the catastrophic consequences of unpunished lawlessness.”

Glorious ruins: on fragility of magazines and other institutions

Nadya Williams   |  February 15, 2025

If little magazines are a public good, how do we ensure their continued existence?

Blessing of Unicorns: Looking back, part I

Nadya Williams   |  February 14, 2025

Looking back with gratitude

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 2)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 13, 2025

Atheism to radicalism

Beyond the fourth branch: reconsidering civil service independence

Jon D. Schaff   |  February 12, 2025

Civil service is operating too much like a fourth branch. That’s a problem.

ICE raids on churches–my thoughts in Christianity Today

Nadya Williams   |  February 11, 2025

Regardless of your stance on immigration, ICE arrests at churches are an act of disrespect that we should oppose.

Does listening to audio books count as “reading”? A roundup of views

Nadya Williams   |  February 10, 2025

It’s complicated.

Interview: Anne Perez on Understanding Zionism

Anne Perez and Nadya Williams   |  February 7, 2025

“Zionism has never been and is not one thing.”

Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Introduction and Chapter 1)

Marvin Olasky   |  February 6, 2025

Over the next twenty-two weeks, you can read a chapter from Marvin Olasky’s memoir every Thursday.

Interview: Thomas S. Kidd on ‘Christian History: From the Reformation to the Present’

Thomas S. Kidd and Nadya Williams   |  February 5, 2025

“I wanted to center the book on the history of Christianity as believed and lived by everyday pastors, Christians, and churches.”

Interview: Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson on Hopeful Realism

Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, Micah Watson and Nadya Williams   |  February 4, 2025

Micah Watson: “we’re convinced God calls us to love our neighbors and that can–and at times should–include loving our neighbors through politics.”

Current winter books week is here!

Nadya Williams   |  February 3, 2025

All books, all week.

Blessing of Unicorns: the antisocial century, the airport piano tuner, the only Jewish resident in Oświęcim, and more

Nadya Williams   |  January 31, 2025

Rounding up the antisocial century, the airport piano tuner, the only Jewish resident in Oświęcim, Reading Genesis, and family and parenting.

Christians Reading Classics is coming this fall–and a brief Arena break this week

Nadya Williams   |  January 28, 2025

How might Christians read Greco-Roman literature as Christians?

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