Reading about x doesn’t just teach you about x; it also teaches you how to write. If we replaced reading, would anyone need to be good at writing? There is a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing. You can’t think well without writing well, and you...

[Man] received a double task to perform: first, to cultivate and preserve the garden of Eden, and second, to eat freely of all the trees in the garden except of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The first task defines his relationship to the earth, the second...

The app I use for podcasts is Overcast. It’s free, it supports playlists and queues, has some nice sound enhancing features, and is generally much better than the native Apple Podcasts app. I broke the list up into three categories. Some of these I listen to more regularly than others,...

For Luther, the importance of study was so interwoven with his discovery of the true gospel that he could never treat study as anything other than utterly crucial and life-giving and history-shaping. Study had been his gateway to the gospel and to the Reformation and to God. We take so...

“It is not just in dying that we need a clean conscience, it is also in living.” In his book, Discovering the Joy of a Clear Conscience, Christopher Ash presents his readers with a robust and accessible theology of the conscience. He defines the conscience as an indispensable inner moral...