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F&F Volume 4 (2025 Issue) Digital Release

F&F Volume 4 (2025 Issue) Digital Release

Yes, indeed, you are seeing a new image at the head of this article, because yes, indeed, we have published a new full issue of F&F! We have released Volume 4, our 2025 issue. This issue once again collects the top-notch theological scholarship for the life of the...

EWP Talks on Ethics: What Is Real Flourishing?

EWP Talks on Ethics: What Is Real Flourishing?

Our collection of EWP Talks on Ethics will help your students explore the way we strive to live as followers of Jesus, and what we hope for – and will work for – when it comes to economic systems and practices. Perhaps the toughest part, these talks will...

Why, After All These Years, Do We Still Lack a Theology of Work for “Ordinary Professions”?

Why, After All These Years, Do We Still Lack a Theology of Work for “Ordinary Professions”?

Note: From Worth Doing (IVP, 2025). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted.  “The real world.” It is a phrase we often use when comparing various people’s situations in life, including our own, or when we want to impress on a...

A Window and a Mirror: Christ at Sundance 2024

A Window and a Mirror: Christ at Sundance 2024

From fathers in prison to a 93-year-old action star to an underground railroad out of North Korea, movies are an essential embodiment of cultural discourse about what it means to be human – a window to help us see our world, and a mirror to help us see ourselves. By...

A Christian Vision for Compassion

A Christian Vision for Compassion

Our vision paper “A Christian Vision for Flourishing Communities” lays out how we see the challenge of renewing theologically formed Christian wisdom for the common good and human flourishing in the advanced modern world. En Español: “Una Visión Christiana para las...