Resources by Sarah Patterson White

“Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul” by Hannah Anderson

“For years, I’ve believed that finding rest comes from both simultaneously learning to let go and keeping your act together.” Christians from many backgrounds and seasons of life will likely identify with Hannah Anderson’s paradoxical admission. Yet this uneasy balance ultimately throws us back on our own resources. In Humble Roots, Anderson commends the easy […]

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Tuesday, 07 August, 2018 by Sarah Patterson White
How-To History: Fact, Fiction, and the Art of the Past

In AD 336, a report was circulated that the Egyptian bishop Arsenius had been killed and Athanasius was to blame. The schismatic Meletian party could even produce the corpse’s severed hand as proof. The evidence was persuasive enough that Emperor Constantine was prevailed upon to press a murder charge against the theologian. Fortunately, it turned […]

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Friday, 01 September, 2017 by Sarah Patterson White

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The Meaning of “God”

Jan 22, 2021

Modernity, Pluralism, and Doubt Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Charles Taylor’s monumental A Secular Age was the simple observation that modern believers and unbelievers experience the world in much the same way. Whether raised by a homeschooling family who taught you to be a six-day creationist, or the child of an irreligious couple in San […]
Unhappily Married or Happily Divorced? The False Dilemma

Jan 25, 2021

Whatever we believe the Scriptures say about legitimate grounds for divorce, the assumption that marital dissolution should not be common among those who claim to follow Christ and Biblical teaching is reasonable. The pertinent passages recognized in the New Testament at most allow for divorce and remarriage only for egregious violations of the marital covenant […]
Biblical Nonconformity

Feb 19, 2021

Nonconformity is all the rage. Our culture applauds rebellion against social norms and encourages boldly standing apart. Sometimes this nonconformity is minor. It looks like fuchsia hair, living in a tiny house, eating only fruit and veggies. Other times nonconformity is something more extreme. The most immediate example is gender nonconformity. Biologically sexed males and […]
The Model for Christian Manhood: Introduction

Jun 16, 2021

When I used to lead women’s ministry at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, I helped organize our yearly Women’s Retreats. The men, however, never had Men’s Retreats. They had Men’s Advances. Retreats, as they saw it, were for sissies. Nevermind that the larger church adopted the concept of retreat from Jesus’s example in the Gospels. […]

“Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul” by Hannah Anderson

How-To History: Fact, Fiction, and the Art of the Past