Brad East

From AI to K-pop to medical missions, our essays on culture, ethics, sociology, and more tackled the year’s most discussed topics.

What is true of Good Friday applies to Christmas too.

The Guillermo del Toro adaptation brings unique perspective—but fails to match the depth of its source material.

Most Christians aren’t monks, missionaries, or martyrs. We’re unimpressive and unsatisfactory—yet saved by God’s scandalous grace.

A case study in how Christians talk about theology, featuring a recent dustup over penal substitutionary atonement.

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church.

The West has long agreed: Hitler is all we aspire not to be. But Alec Ryrie’s new book shows this waning consensus can’t uphold all our public ethics.

The early church earnestly considered the question of Gentile observance of Jewish law and customs. Their answer was a firm no.

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among American Christians?

Michael Huerter’s The Hybrid Congregation is an earnest effort to enrich our worship. It is also naive, superficial, incurious, and wrong.