Today we’re launching a new solamedia.org, a single home for everything Sola Media produces. Before you look around, I want to tell you why it matters.
When we started more than 35 years ago, almost everything about how Christians talked about their faith looked different. Television evangelism was at its height and just beginning to collapse under its own scandals. Modern Reformation was a newsletter I could more or less staple together at home. White Horse Inn went out over the radio, and if you missed the broadcast, you missed it.
Since then, the debates have shifted more times than I can count. We’ve argued about open theism and about whether evangelicals and Roman Catholics had reached agreement on the gospel. We’ve weighed the latest church-growth strategies and the culture wars, and lately the question of whether the Reformation itself is to blame for the secular age. The faces around the table have changed too. Some of the voices that shaped those early conversations have gone to be with the Lord, and a new generation of pastors and scholars, many of them from churches around the world, has joined in.
What hasn’t changed is the thing we keep coming back to. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Sinners are still justified by grace alone, through faith alone, because of Christ alone. The church still needs to hear that good news more than it needs advice. None of this is new, and that’s the point. Long before any of us came along, Christians were confessing the same faith in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, and later in the great confessions of the Reformation. Every season brings a new way of drifting from the gospel and a new reason to return to it. That’s what we’ve meant all along by a modern reformation: not repeating the sixteenth century, but bringing the same unchanging gospel into our own time and place.
So it seems fitting that, as the ways people read, listen, and watch have changed, the way we share our work should change with them. When Modern Reformation moved out of print, I said the two questions that matter are whether the work is faithful and how many people can reach it. Those questions brought us here.
Now, for the first time, all of our work lives under one roof.
What You’ll Find
White Horse Inn, Core Christianity, and Modern Reformation now live side by side, so you can move easily from an episode to an essay to an answer to a question you’ve been carrying for years. The MR archive of past themed issues is here, and for those of us who still miss the print magazine (I count myself among them), it’s a pleasure to have those essays close at hand.
Some of what you’ll find is new:
The Sola Newspaper, our new quarterly print publication. After everything I said about moving MR off the printed page, I’ll admit the irony. But some things are still best read slowly, with a cup of coffee, and passed along to a friend.
Know What You Believe is where I talk through today’s debates with friends and, now and then, with critics.
Tell Me a Story is a program for the youngest among us: fifteen-minute audio episodes with narration, music, and sound effects that show children how every story in the Bible points to God’s grace in Jesus.
Theo Global has been hosting symposiums for a decade, bringing together theologians from across the Majority World to do theology together. I’ve learned more from these brothers and sisters than I could ever repay and am grateful to be able to share these conversations with all of you.
Who This Is For
I keep thinking about the people who will find their way here. Someone searching late at night to find out whether God could possibly forgive what they’ve done. Someone watching debates unfold online and in the headlines, wanting to respond with clarity and charity rather than alarm. A parent or grandparent trying to tell a child the story of the Bible without flattening it into moral lessons. None of them needs Sola Media. They need Christ. If this site helps with that, it’s worth the effort.
This has always been a shared conversation with Lutherans, Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and others around the same table, and now with brothers and sisters from across the global church. I’m grateful to our staff, who did the hard and unglamorous work of bringing this together. I’m also grateful to the friends and partners whose prayers and generosity have kept this conversation going for so long. Above all, I’m grateful to the Lord, who keeps building his church by his Word in spite of us as much as through us.
So come in and look around. The medium has changed many times over the years. The message hasn’t.
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