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Faithfulness amid the Culture War

Faithfulness to Jesus’s mission isn’t less than boldness in the culture war; it’s much more. Many wonder if the days of a nonpartisan approach to Christian cultural engagement are over. In recent ...

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How to Exit Tech

If we as parents could see what our children see on social media, we wouldn’t hesitate to keep them away. That’s why Clare Morell calls for a tech exit: “no smartphones, social media, tablets, or v...

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5 Reasons to Read Eugene Peterson on Pastoral Ministry

A younger pastor recently asked me what resources have most formed my thinking on pastoral ministry. He was somewhat familiar with most of the books I mentioned, but then I brought up the works on ...

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Find Meaningful Community in Jan Karon’s Mitford

As a young man, I took a copy of Jan Karon’s debut novel with me on a surprise deployment. Two decades later, my copy of At Home in Mitford, a discarded paperback from the Gales Ferry library, stil...

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How Power Corrupts Pure Religion

In 1534, Henry VIII—whom the Pope dubbed “Defender of the Faith” because of his work opposing Luther’s teaching—broke from Rome and established himself as the head of the newly formed Church of Eng...

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The FAQs: Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Case on Free Speech and Bans on Sexual Reorientation Therapy

What just happened? On October 7, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s law that prohibits “conversion therapy” for mino...

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Resurrection’s Old Testament Logic

The resurrection ranks among the most crucial doctrines of Christianity. For Jesus and the apostles, the resurrection is the bedrock of New Testament theology (e.g., John 11:25–26; 1 Cor. 15:12–5...

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Gen Z Is Spiritually Hungry. Let’s Get Ready to Feed Them.

Pew Research Center began tracking America’s religious landscape in 2007. Since then, they’ve reported Christianity’s steady decline. In 2024, pollster George Barna told the Christian Post that the...

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Pagans and Paranormal-Seekers Need the Unchanging Gospel

I used to listen to George Noory’s Coast to Coast AM on the radio during middle-of-the-night commutes. I was amused by his guests as they talked about UFOs, ghosts, and chupacabras. Along with regu...

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Editor’s Pick: 6 Books on Christian Apologetics

The task of equipping every believer for Christian apologetics has never been more urgent. As an elder and Sunday school teacher, I frequently get asked questions that come from influencers online ...

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How to Pursue Justice for Jesus

A few years ago, I led a workshop titled “How the Church Can Combat Human Trafficking” at a large Christian conference in Oregon that focused on global mission work. Afterward, a college student ap...

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Why Philosophical Theology Still Needs the Creeds

I’ve been asked several times what I think about Christianity’s perceived decline in the West. One of my frequent responses is to ask the questioners if they’re aware of the renaissance in Christia...

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Voddie Baucham (1969–2025) on the Resurrection

Voddie Baucham (1969–2025) has gone home to be with the Lord. In light of the common hope we hold as Christians, we’re looking back at his message from The Gospel Coalition’s 2015 National Conferen...

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Transparency Is the Answer to Conspiracy Thinking

Some conspiracy theories are true. Governments have lied. Corporations have covered things up. Institutions have acted corruptly. From Watergate to Big Tobacco’s decades of deception, there are re...

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Grace-Based Discipline in Real Life

Twenty-plus years later, I can still picture the glee on my daughter’s face as she squealed out her response to the question that always concluded our times of discipline: “What is now true?” “Cl...

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Is Christianity Good?

“Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone” (Mark 10:18). This was Jesus’s response when the rich young ruler, kneeling before him, asked, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit et...

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Ransomed by the Lamb: The Passover Story

For Christians, Jesus Christ’s death is intimately associated with the Passover. This connection is hardly coincidental, given the significant role that Passover plays in God’s liberation of the Is...

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Pastors, Teach Your People to Love Their Country

The year 2026 will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and America plans to celebrate. A long-standing bipartisan commission and a White House task force s...

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The Hollow Comfort of AI in Worship and Grief

In a recent Sunday service at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, pastor Jack Graham paused his sermon to play an audio clip of the late Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and founder ...

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Covetousness: The Sin Behind the Sin

Melissa and Courtney talk with Jackie Hill Perry about the sin of covetousness and why it’s so hard to recognize and admit. They discuss signposts that tip them off that they’re coveting, the relat...

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How China’s Persecuted Reach China’s Marginalized

To protect the identity of Chinese Christians, all names are pseudonyms. “Who is my neighbor?” Two thousand years ago, a young Jewish leader brought this question to Jesus. The query still resona...

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