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Your True Self Is Not Your Authentic Self
Kyle Strobel — October 29, 2025
I will often use the language of “true self” and “false self,” because I think it gets at something important. The problem is that others use this...
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The Future of Soul Care
Kyle Strobel — September 24, 2025
For those of you who don’t know, I have entered a new season in my academic life. When I posted the update about my new role as the Director of the...
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Discernment and Spiritual Practices: Wisdom from the Desert
Kyle Strobel — September 17, 2025
When talking about desert spirituality, John Cassian’s Conferences must be a key resource. In Cassian’s work, we find him and his friend Germanus...
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Paradigms of Spiritual Formation
Kyle Strobel — August 22, 2025
When we talk about spiritual formation, the Christian life, or maybe even just growth, we all presuppose a paradigm for what we are talking about....
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Following the Signs
Kyle Strobel — February 26, 2025
“All teaching is either about things or signs; but things are learned about through signs.” Augustine In The Silver Chair, Jill Pole is with Aslan...
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On Having Your Beliefs Transformed
By embracing the simple joys hidden in plain sight
Kyle Strobel — February 19, 2025
I went to seminary to be great. I’m sure there was something well-meaning in it, and I’m sure that there was a genuine call on my life to take that...
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Spiritual Formation Beyond Life Hacks
Kyle Strobel — January 20, 2025
The beginning of the contemporary discussion of spiritual formation began with a simple realization: At some point we stopped talking about...
Talbot Magazine
Best of the Blog: Winter 2024
The Problem with Imitating Jesus
Kyle Strobel — January 08, 2025
There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. If I can...
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The Problem with Imitating Jesus
Kyle Strobel — September 20, 2024
There are tension points all along the path of Christian spiritual formation, where Scripture seems to present opposing ideas to us. We don’t get...
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The New (But Old) Wave in Evangelicalism
Kyle Strobel — June 06, 2024
In a recent article on The Gospel Coalition website, Trevin Wax narrates three “waves” that have occurred in evangelicalism over the past 50 years:...
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The Spiritual Calling of the Seminary
Kyle Strobel — December 06, 2023
When I first began wrestling with a call to ministry, I was immediately warned by some well-meaning Christians, “whatever you do, don’t go to...
Talbot Magazine
When Prayer is Shaped by the Gospel
Kyle Strobel — December 06, 2021
Even though I was a Bible major in college, it became clear that I did not have the slightest clue how to pray. But that wasn’t the main problem....
Think Biblically
Power and Weakness in Leadership and the Church
with Kyle Strobel
Sean McDowell, Scott Rae, Kyle Strobel — October 22, 2021
Kyle Strobel brings an insightful critique of the exercise of power in the church today and spells out the way of Jesus as the radical alternative....
Think Biblically
Where Prayer Becomes Real
with Kyle Strobel
Sean McDowell, Scott Rae, Kyle Strobel — June 01, 2021
Prayer is often a hard subject to talk about, and one reason for that is the guilt that it induces as people inevitably face up to the challenges...
The Good Book Blog
Where Prayer Becomes Real
The Good Book Blog, Kyle Strobel — March 10, 2021
In this post, we interview Kyle Strobel, one of two authors of the new book, Where Prayer Becomes Real: How Honesty with God Transforms Your Soul....
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Prayer when the World is Falling Apart
Kyle Strobel — January 11, 2021
With the tensions and tragedies piling on top of each other in our country, it can feel like the world is pulling apart at the seams. I find myself...
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When Social Media is Antithetical to the Cross
Kyle Strobel — December 02, 2020
Imagine that you saw someone teaching one-thousand people in a field. “Wow,” you might think, “that person has quite a following.” Normally, we...
Think Biblically
Embracing Contemplation
with Kyle Strobel
Sean McDowell, Scott Rae, Kyle Strobel — September 05, 2019
What is the role of contemplation in the Christian life? In our busy and distracted age, how can we find time to connect with God through both...
Talbot Magazine
Shelf Life
Recent publications from our very own Talbot faculty.
John Coe, Craig Hazen, J P Moreland, Jeanette Pifer, Kyle Strobel — June 04, 2019
Faith As Participation: An Exegetical Study of Some Key Pauline Texts Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament Jeanette Hagen Pifer...
Talbot Magazine
Shelf Life
Recent publications from our very own Talbot faculty.
Ed Curtis, Leon Harris, Joe Hellerman, Kyle Strobel — June 20, 2018
"Jonathan Edwards;" "Why We Need the Church to Become More Like Jesus;" "Interpreting the Wisdom Books;" "The Holy Spirit as Communion"