Julian Young, on the historical context of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas and on why he still believed in the necessity of religion

Perry L. Glanzer, on the failure of American universities to adequately address the challenge of moral formation

Kenda Creasy Dean, on why churches are to blame for the "moralistic therapeutic Deism" so common among teens

Brian Brock, on how the centrality of technology in Western culture encourages us to see the gift of Creation as merely "nature" awaiting our manipulation

Nicholas Carr, on how the distracted character of multi-tasking ruins reading and how social networking systems sustain a "transactional" view of relationships

Alan Jacobs, on how the literary form of the essay reproduces the unpredictable way that our thoughts develop