March 27, 2026

Today the church is asking what transformation actually looks like — whether it's real, how it happens, and what it costs. Bethel McGrew's piece at Further Up is the sharpest entry point. She's writing about 1 Corinthians 6:11 — 'and such were some of you' — and she won't let the past tense be sentimental. The change is radical or it isn't change. First Things hits the same nerve from the outside: when God's name gets mocked publicly, what exactly is being attacked? Not just a symbol. The claim that there is a self who can be transformed at all. Relevant has two pieces running in parallel — one on the body, one on the Holy Spirit — and they're pulling in slightly different directions. The body piece is personal, almost therapeutic. The Spirit piece is pushing back against a generation that has domesticated pneumatology into felt experience. One is confession. The other is correction.

Christianity Today has a piece arguing that faith should function as a sign, not a weathervane — it points somewhere fixed, regardless of which way the wind is blowing. That same tension was live on March 26 when the question was whether what we call faith is genuinely formed or just emotionally reactive. It hasn't resolved. First Things also ran a comparison of Andreessen and Augustine on technology and human nature — the argument isn't subtle. Silicon Valley has an anthropology. So does the church. They are not the same anthropology. Mere Orthodoxy frames the identity question through Lewis's language — sons of Adam, daughters of Eve — which connects quietly to TGC's Holy Week piece on Narnia. Two outlets, same instinct: the old stories carry weight that newer frameworks can't. World has a podcast on truth eventually catching up to deception. Small story. Large claim.