Strictly speaking, the only time God ever changed was in a manger. That is the problem with being infinite, omnipotent, and all the rest. The theologians have a fancy word for this: immutability. It means that God does not shift. He does not evolve. He does not wake...

During a season marked by unity, many Christians have found a particularly unflattering way to quarrel. Truly, the Santa Claus debate has descended to new depths of ugliness with the advent of YouTube and social media, but this is not to say that the conversation...

I think a lot about exhaustion lately. Maybe because I'm often exhausted. Whenever I feel this burnout, my mind always wanders back to history to look for the roots of things because I need to understand why we are the way we are, and why modern life feels so...

We modern men all have a longing for a guide, a mentor. The wise man who can help us navigate the shores of young adulthood. We all, in other words, desire that singular, archetypal figure who has seemingly cracked the code of existence. The one who has it all figured...

When an essay detonates across the culture like a depth charge, it is usually because it names a feeling that was already there. Helen Andrews’s “The Great Feminization” in Compact Magazine did exactly that. In a few thousand words she managed to link everything from...

“Every age is marked by its illusions; ours is that we have none.” — Daniel J. Boorstin “Irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its cage.” — Theodor W. Adorno The New Language of Belonging Every generation invents its secret codes of belonging—words,...