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Chalk Art for the Life of the World

In his review of For the Life of the World: Letters to the Exiles, Andy Crouch noted its artistic merits, observing how well it conveyed “deeply Christian themes in widely accessible ways.” “I can only hope that many of us will indeed watch and learn,” he writes, “and that we will then give ourselves away, as skillfully, promptly, and sincerely as… Read More

Why a Christian Anthropology Matters for Liberty and Love

By Charlie Self Dorothy Sayers, playwright, novelist and Christian scholar, wrote an important essay in the 1930s called, “Are Women Human?”, in which she presents the biblical case for gender equality in a humorous and insightful way, grounding mutuality in theological anthropology. From the Genesis narratives to the new earth of Revelation, she… Read More

Aslan’s Song of Stewardship

By Joseph Sunde When we think about “stewardship,” our minds will often revert to the material and predictable. We think about money or the allocation of resources. We think about growing crops or creating goods or financial investment and generosity. For the Christian, however, stewardship goes much further, weaving closely together the… Read More

We Were Made to Trade

By Jordan Ballor Something as mundane as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich has something profound to teach us about the social nature of the human person. We were, to put it bluntly, made to trade. God created us to live in community with one another and placed within us a disposition both to give and receive good things from each other. We… Read More

From Bard to Barber: Jars of Clay’s Stephen Mason on Vocation

By Joseph Sunde For most musicians, the prospect of a long and stable career in the arts is a lifelong dream. For those who actually “make it,” however, aspirations can sometimes shift in surprising ways. For Jars of Clay, a popular rock band who achieved success in the 1990s — and wrote the music for For the Life of the World — that vocational… Read More

Dignity, Dinosaurs, and the Power of the Peculiar

This article originally appeared at Ethika Politika. It is reprinted here with permission By Dylan Pahman What does human dignity look like in real life? A decade ago now, I worked for UPS as a revenue auditor. “Revenue auditor” is a fancy name for someone who would measure and weigh boxes to make sure customers were billing themselves… Read More