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Spiritual Formation
On Suffering and the Silence of God
There are seasons when prayer rises and seems to go nowhere. Not because God is absent, but because He is doing something we cannot see from the floor of the furnace.
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Apologetics
Why Christians Can't Stop Asking Why
Intellectual questioning is not the opposite of faith. For the Christian, it may be one of its most faithful expressions. A case for the examined life.
Jeremy Dawson · June 2025 · 9 min read
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Theology
The Hiddenness of God in the Psalms of Lament
The Psalter does not sanitize anguish. Forty-two Psalms are laments, and many of them accuse God of absence. What are we to make of a Canon that preserves this?
Jeremy Dawson · May 2025 · 11 min read
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Spiritual Formation
Sanctification Is Not Self-Improvement
The Protestant account of sanctification has always resisted moralism. It is not the Christian making herself better. It is the Spirit making her more like Christ.
Jeremy Dawson · May 2025 · 8 min read
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Epistemology
Doubt as a Feature, Not a Bug
Modern Christianity has often treated doubt as spiritual failure. Church history, and the great cloud of witnesses, suggests otherwise.
Jeremy Dawson · April 2025 · 7 min read
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Church History
How the Early Church Thought About Evil
Before the modern problem of evil became a philosophical argument, pastors buried children and emperors burned believers. How did the early church hold on?
Jeremy Dawson · April 2025 · 10 min read
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Culture
Believing in a Secular Age
Charles Taylor mapped the conditions of belief in modernity. For Christians who feel the pressure of the buffered self, his diagnosis is both sobering and useful.
Jeremy Dawson · March 2025 · 13 min read