The chapter—often imagined as a checklist for women—in fact imagines all kinds of people, doing all kinds of work, at all times, in every corner of the created world, but never one person, or one gender, doing everything, all the time, everywhere.

Throughout history, Christians have held a variety of views on how to engage culture—from establishing governmental theocracy to functioning in segregated spaces. Anthony Bradley revisits the writings of Abraham Kuyper, 19th century Dutch theologian and Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Drawing on this rich canon, he attempts to formulate a helpful model for the role of Christians in postmodern culture.

Envy hasn't historically been a driver of American social life, but lately, that's been changing. But envy has corrosive effects on a culture. Could the pop star Lorde have anything to say to that?

There's been a lot of discussion about national "common core" standards - but it's interesting to note that the book of Proverbs formed a kind of "common core" for Israel.

Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs tell a the story of an up-and-down life - a man who was both a resounding success and a profound failure. His tale has a lot to tell us about our own lives.

What makes a film “Lenten”? Films that through image, tone, and theme communicate the sense of somber, contemplative hope that we experience during this period. Here's ten such films for the season.

Technology is powerful. But its power is that it primarily enlarges and expedites vices and virtues that are as old as the human race. Technology creates new problems and new scales of problems, but not new sins. That, sadly, is still the purview of the human race.

Enter 2014: the year when legalized recreational marijuana becomes a reality in America—at least in Colorado and Washington, anyway. But, for the first time a majority of Americans (58%, according to Gallup) favor legalizing the drug. So, it certainly seems likely that more states could follow suit in the coming years. What should we think of this shift in American’s perceptions of drug use?

Ideas have consequences.As Christians, our beliefs about how the world ought to be matter. And, at Q, these are the ideas that we seek to explore as we challenge Christians to stay curious, think well and advance good. In 2013, that meant tackling ideas from modesty to interfaith dialogue to small churches to women and calling. Here are the top-viewed articles and talks on Q Ideas this year.

The Atlanta snowpocalypse rendered the transportation hub helpless to provide consistent transportation access and service to those in the area. The ensuing chaos unearthed valuable lessons for public life—and lesson for Christians around the country who want to seek the good of those around them.

Christians are meant to be people of the book—but we're increasingly just people of words: our own. What would it look like to take Biblical literacy seriously?