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“We save us.” According to the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the dominant religious trend of 2025 can be summed up by this phrase. A top religious tren...
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Every Christmas, churches around the world celebrate the incarnation of the Son using titles taken from Isaiah 9:6: “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” But why s...
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Martin Luther reached the peak of his evangelical trajectory with his 1525 book On the Bondage of the Will. That’s where he made his strongest case for justification by grace through faith. The boo...
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Loving Jesus means loving our neighbors as well. But our culture is increasingly post-Christian, post-church, and post-reached. Our neighbors feel further away than they’ve ever been. So what shift...
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A Tommy Robinson-inspired carol service is the latest sign of a burgeoning Christian nationalist movement. The Church of England is right to push backThe story of Christmas is a tale of poverty and...
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The fourth-century African theologian Athanasius is known for standing contra mundum, against the world. When much of the church had turned toward Arianism, he stood firm on the truth that Jesus is...
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Merriam-Webster defines “idolatry” in two ways: “the worship of a physical object as a god” and “immoderate attachment or devotion to something.” Using either of those definitions, it’s not a stre...
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Nearly 60% of married people say they’ve felt emotionally disconnected from their spouse at some point. Muslim couples aren’t immune to this.  If you’re lying awake wondering where love went, know...
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Pastors today face enormous pressure to project strength and authority. We hear expectations expressed everywhere: in the aisles during greeting time, over a fellowship meal, in the parking lot aft...
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When Aldous Huxley published Brave New World, many people probably thought his novel was outlandish, that his ideas seemed like impossible and futuristic imaginings. Today’s Christians may have a s...
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The extremist, who is said to have converted in prison, is now planning a mass carol service. But look at his words and deeds: hardly Saint Tommy, is it?Here’s a thought for the day: what kind of C...
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One of the top concerns of youth pastors and ministry leaders is how often families are skipping church for travel sports. There’s no survey calculating how many families choose sports over church,...
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Read Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s han...
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When I was growing up, my family rarely ate out. Going to a restaurant was an occasional treat, but our daily diet was filled with my mom’s home-cooked meals. We were healthier for it. As Christia...
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Many of my favorite reading experiences have come through others’ recommendations. The librarian’s recommendation of The Hobbit changed my childhood and set me on a trajectory of love for Tolkien. ...
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Sexual immorality appears to be the 800-pound gorilla in our culture today that few, if any, can slay. The statistics are staggering. According to a 2024 survey, more than half of practicing Christ...
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It might have been the most memorable image of the year. The world’s most popular podcaster held up a replica of P52, the oldest fragment of the New Testament, in a sprawling interview with young C...
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Faith-based film and television’s improvement is by now a well-known, welcome trend. I no longer find the majority of the genre embarrassingly bad. Yet faith-based masterpieces are still rare. And ...
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The new December 2025 issue of Themelios has 252 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It’s freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software. 1....
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Few modern songs have enjoyed the popularity and cross-denominational appeal of Keith Getty and Stuart Townend’s “In Christ Alone.” It may surprise you, then, that the Presbyterian Church (USA) vot...
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Tertullian famously asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Aware of the intellectual riches available in the Greco-Roman tradition, early Christians faced a choice: Should they appropriate ...