What does it mean for God to be holy? And while we’re on the topic, what does it mean for us—or anything, for that matter—to be holy?

No One Will Remember You In 100 Years / A Theology of Writing / The Suitors’ Days Are Numbered / Ed Sheeran Proves Trueman Right: We All Live in Marx’s World Now / What the Sabbath Teaches Us About Thanksgiving / Settling for Less / The Homeland in Heaven

A few days ago, a post on X went viral after an image featuring a host of religious and mythological figures was fed into Grok, Elon Musk’s A.I.

The God of Craft in the Age of AI / Finding Warmth in God During the Chill of Fall / When the Wrong Voices Offer Shortcuts to Writing Success / Remembering and Recognizing One Another in Heaven / Reflections on Steve Lawson’s Latest Book / Help! I’m Reading the Old Testament! / To Scale: THE SOLAR SYSTEM

One needn’t become a torch-wielding luddite to, at the very same time, be cautiously apprehensive about the widespread embrace of A.I., particularly generative A.I. for creative work such as writing.

Disordered Wantings / Reading Scripture with the Reformers / Narnia Among the Deathworks / The Secret Strength in Seeing Weakness / The Blessing of Having Things to Worry About / Alex O’Connor on Animal Suffering / Do We Make Too Much or Too Little of Angels?

Ancient pagans often credited the sun, moon, and stars with controlling human destiny. Indeed, the heavenly bodies were routinely numbered among the gods which these ancient cultures worshipped.

Calvin and Hobbes and the Price of Integrity / Should You Read Books by Fallen Pastors? / Before You Swim the Tiber / How to Love Your Local Public School / Raising A Generation Of Illiterate Graduates / Will Even Spiders Be on the New Earth? / Why God Gave You Spiritual Gifts

When you become a parent, it takes nearly no time at all for a crowd to begin forming around you, replete with all sorts of well-meaning folks and their polished nuggets of unsolicited parenting advice.

The Legacy of Charlie Kirk / He Rode With Charlie Kirk to the Hospital / I Don’t Understand 9/11. But I Praise God Anyway. / ‘No Tyndale, No Shakespeare’ / How to Raise a Son Who Is Boring and Unattractive to Women / You Can’t Give Your Children What You Don’t Have / 25 Edifying Movies to Appreciate America at 250

Randy Alcorn is among my favorite Christian writers not just because he’s a wonderful writer—which he is—but because he’s a wonderfully encouraging writer.

Joe Rogan and the Search for Transcendence / When Your Child Moves Out as an Unbeliever / Better Is... / Why Fallen Pastors So Rarely Walk Away / You Don’t Have to Dread Your Vocation / How To Spiritually Lead Your Family / Holiness and Justice: The Holiness of God with R.C. Sproul

The Incomparable Joy of Reading to Your Kids / We All Need Fairytales / How Should Christians Evaluate Fictional Magic? / and more!

I feel towards Paul Washer that particular kind of affection reserved for those godly men who, despite their weakness and frailty, were used mightily by God to preach Christ’s glorious strength, worth, and love in a world increasingly parched of all three.

God’s Sovereign Plans Behind Your Most Unproductive Days / In My Father’s School Are Many Classrooms / Dads: When You Stumble, Stumble Forward / The Weight of Glory / What New Opportunities and Abilities Will We Experience on the New Earth? / Science Fiction Reveals Our Fears and Longings / 11 Movies About Male Friendship

Curating these recommendations week after week for News From the Frontlines has been a joy for me, and I hope that it’s been encouraging for you. Indeed, as much as I love writing, there’s something refreshing about giving you a peek behind the curtain on those books, articles, and other resources which have blessed me, both as a writer and as a believer. And if my work here has been encouraging—whether my own writing or the material I’ve been sharing—please don’t hesitate to

Ours is something of a de facto illiterate culture. In practice, people know how to read; the issue is that they don’t read.

To Be Timeless / What Unique Platform Has God Given You to Glorify Him? / When Young Couples Are Afraid to Have Children / I Knew It! / “David’s Plea for Mercy” - Psalm 51 / How to Rightly Train Your Affections / Every Thought Captive

Should you manage to read a book a week over the course of your adult life, you will still have only read about 3,500 to 3,750 works in total—assuming, of course, that you began your reading journey at roughly age ten and continued diligently until around age 80, according to the math, or until your death—whichever should come first.

The Biblical Remedy For Anxiety / ‘The Odyssey’ and the End of the World / How Not to be a Functional Atheist on Your Vacation / In A World Of False Conversions / How Can I Know That I Am Really Saved? / Why Do We Confess If Our Sins Are Already Forgiven? / Re-Enchanting the Christian Mind

The early morning breeze whistled through the pines, making its way past any outerwear and into our bundled forms that were still masked by fog and shadow. With the warmth of the rising sun trailing close behind, the pre-dawn light began stretching its golden limbs across the forest which was now slowly rousing from its short summer slumber.

Reviewing Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” / 15 Great Books to Get You Started / Klavens On The Culture / How to Read More Books / How to Set Up a Pocket Notebook You’ll Use Every Day / Rediscovering the Joy of Writing / How I Write So Fast (And You Can Too!)

Life hasn’t always been easy, and the way hasn’t always been clear. But when I reflect on the life I’ve been given—on the Savior who loved me and died for me, on my Heavenly home, on my wife and the eternal friendship in which we share in Christ as both lovers and friends, on our little son and the little life we’ve been given—I find myself thanking the Lord with those very same words of David.

Men With Chests / Genetics and Sin / Everything I Might Have Been / Sometimes, God’s Intervention IS Our Suffering / The Nail in the Coffin of Our Hearts / The New Birth and Conversion—What Comes First? / The Redemptive Power of “Project Hail Mary”