*culture is not optional

Heaven’s gated communities

by Daniel de Roulet

How did contemporary evangelicalism catch such a dreadful disease?

Aargh, are ye me matey?

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Certain manners of conviction can leave us feeling like outcasts in the empire.

To tell the story

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An interview with Brenda Truelson Fox, director of the film Conviction.

Losing my convictions

by Ryan Snuffer

How letting go can turn into holding on in a better way.

Interrupting God

by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

Two conversions become reflected in two different lexicons and perceptions of language.

A decameron of sneaky honesties

by Benjamin Seeberger

A tour of some of the author’s formative memories in search of the pattern of convictions.

Lies and the impeccable word

by Barbara Zielinski

What the parable of the rich man and Lazarus can teach us about discerning lies.

A dream within a dream

by Raymond Blanton

On cinema conviction and Ang Lee’s Lust Caution.

Drowning in culture

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A review of Deepa Mehta’s Water.

Grant’s recommendations 11.2.07

by Grant Elgersma

A little Julie Lee, some Beginning to Pray, and a good dose of Transformers.

You Can Ponder While You Stand, But By All Means, Stand

by Neil E. Das

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by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

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by Meredith Kathryn-Case Gipson Hoogendam

I Can Do It

by Raymond Blanton

The fellowship of the guilty

by Stephen Mitchell

?By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin and so death passed upon all men.?

Coming down now

by Margie Haack

Learning to live together in a house built on a foundation of public promises.

Regarding judgment

by David Howard Malone

Are we necessarily caught between conviction and relativism?

The Courage of Conviction

Sojourner’s Magazine

Jim Wallis interviews Senator Mark Hatfield upon his retirement in 1996.

What Fundamentalists Need for their Salvation

Orion Magazine

David James Duncan lays down the ideological gauntlet “in defense of truth, stewardship and neighborly love.”