Samuel D. James is associate acquisitions editor at Crossway Books and author of Digitial Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age. He has been honored to publish in such places as The Wall Street Journal, National Review, Time, First Things, The Gospel Coalition, and more. He is a Bluegrass native and currently lives in Louisville, KY, with his wife, Emily, and children.
The question “Am I being formed?” is never a valid one for the Christian. Rather, we must continually ask ourselves “By what am I being formed and how?” In