Paralyzed at seventeen and a quadriplegic for nearly sixty years, Joni Eareckson Tada talks with John Ortberg about despair, anger at God, and pain. What emerges is a hard-won hope: that Jesus is "the treasure, not the consolation prize," a word for anyone whose circumstances may never be okay.
These three ministries encourage and facilitate pilgrimages of body and of soul (Footnotes by John Ortberg).
Christian ministries confront a long-ignored reality: spiritual growth stalls when emotions stay buried. From emotional honesty to trauma healing to mental-health-safe churches, transformation requires more than belief—it demands facing the soul’s hidden wounds. (Footnotes by John Ortberg.)
Success can hide astonishing levels of emotional isolation, and spiritual formation may be the last place we look. (Footnotes by John Ortberg.)
Maybe the church's deepest failure isn't lack of truth — but failure to make truth imaginatively compelling. (Footnote by John Ortberg)
AI can assist Scripture—but cannot discern truth or Spirit. When innovation outruns wisdom, formation becomes collateral damage. Simulated souls force a haunting question: what is real spirituality?
Tremper Longman III — one of the most prolific and trusted Old Testament scholars of his generation — joins John for a conversation about the parts of Scripture that trouble us most, and why sitting with that trouble might be more formative than explaining it away.
Tyler Staton joins John for the first conversation in Formation's history. This is a conversation about the ancient and the empirical, and how sometimes we may look for formation in all the wrong places.
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