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F&F Volume 2 (2023 Issue) Digital Release

F&F Volume 2 (2023 Issue) Digital Release

Yes, that's a new header image you see above this article, because yes, that's a new F&F cover you see on it - because yes, we have just released the digital edition of a new issue of F&F! Volume 2, our 2023 issue, once again collects the top-notch theological...

What Is Gender? And Why Does Trying to Answer That Question Drive Everybody (to Put It in Highly Technical Theological Terms) Absolutely Bonkers?

What Is Gender? And Why Does Trying to Answer That Question Drive Everybody (to Put It in Highly Technical Theological Terms) Absolutely Bonkers?

Note: From Gender as Love (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. I think that [Sarah] Coakley is basically correct in her claim that gender is defined by that which makes us who we are, our identities, something that...

A Window and a Mirror: Christ at Sundance 2023

A Window and a Mirror: Christ at Sundance 2023

From babies raised in AI-driven artificial wombs to a London father forced to care for the child he abandoned, movies are an essential embodiment of cultural discourse about what it means to be human. By understanding and responding well to contemporary film,...

Classic EWP Talks: Political but Not Partisan

Classic EWP Talks: Political but Not Partisan

When it comes to what Vince Bacote has called “political discipleship,” the church in the U.S. is already beginning to emerge – yes, it really is! – from a generation of Babylonian captivity. Young Christians aren’t interested in taking their public theology from...