jreimer Feb 17, 2026

Topics:

• Culture
• Faith
• Technology

The Perfect Mirror

How I broke AI (and how it almost broke me).

jreimer Apr 24, 2025

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Ethics
• Justice

Missing the Point on Pope Francis

Assessing the legacy of a complicated papacy.

jreimer May 2, 2024

Topics:

• Culture
• Public Life
• Technology

The Techno-Optimist and the Lonely Man of Faith

Finding the human in our feuding, dialectical impulses.

jreimer May 2, 2024

Topics:

• Community
• Culture
• Public Life

The Ache for Home

The hard, active work of belonging begins with our neighbour but ends in God.

jreimer Apr 25, 2024

Topics:

• Culture
• Health
• Work

Take Five

Music, medicine, and relearning the limit of time.

jreimer Feb 29, 2024 Violence

Topics:

• Church
• Cultural Renewal
• Leadership

The Architecture of Authority

Why the church must resist the lure of coercion.

jreimer Feb 29, 2024 Violence

Topics:

• Arts
• Culture
• Race

The Violence of Beauty, the Beauty of Violence

Judith, race, and the Western artistic imagination.

jreimer Feb 29, 2024 Violence

Topics:

• Ethics
• Gender
• Public Life

Why We Drop the Gloves

A reflection on hockey fights.

jreimer Feb 22, 2024

Topics:

• History
• Inequality
• Justice
• Race

Children of Mammon, Children of God

The complicated humanity at the heart of Killers of the Flower Moon.

jreimer Jan 25, 2024

Topics:

• Culture
• Religion
• Theology

The Tree of India

Can Hindu “non-duality” rescue fragmented Western Christianity? I went to a famous Christian ashram—now run entirely by Indians—to find out.

jreimer Aug 31, 2023 Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Gender
• Theology

Wholeness

Christian anthropology and transgender anthropology in dialogue.

jreimer Aug 31, 2023 Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Cultural Renewal
• Gender
• Relationship

What Men Are For

When Lone Ranger masculinity bottoms out.

jreimer Aug 31, 2023 Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Church
• Faith
• Gender

Can Feminism and Evangelical Christianity Coexist?

Wrestling with sacred values before and after my conversion.

jreimer Aug 31, 2023 Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Faith
• Family
• Literature

The Providence of Poverty

Finding grace in the midst of addiction and homelessness.

jreimer Aug 31, 2023 Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Gender
• History

You Keep Using That Word

What does philology have to do with the gender debates?

jreimer Aug 31, 2023 Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Culture
• Faith
• Gender

Obligation and Inspiration

A Jewish theory of gender.

jreimer Aug 31, 2023 Gender and Our Humanity

Topics:

• Gender
• Public Life
• Theology

Jesus and the Transformation of Gender

What gender is, what it is meant to be, and what it ultimately will be.

jreimer May 22, 2023

Topics:

• Church
• Cities
• Faith

The Surprise of Tim Keller

A Christ follower.

jreimer Feb 16, 2023 Charting Social Change

Topics:

• Economics
• Institutions
• Non-profits
• Social Architecture

Do Non-profits Drive Social Change?

Looking at the role of economics, religion, and media.

jreimer Feb 16, 2023 Charting Social Change

Topics:

• Arts
• Church
• Race

The Blues Idiom at Church

Why white Christians need to learn from their black brothers and sisters how to flourish in the briar patch.

jreimer Feb 16, 2023 Charting Social Change

Topics:

• Community
• Cultural Renewal
• Public Life

Why Wait?

Help for ordinary people who feel helpless.

jreimer Feb 9, 2023

Topics:

• Church
• Ethics
• Leadership

A Company Man

Evangelicals have learned the wrong lessons about institutions.