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The Danger of AI Isn’t Misinformation. It’s Mis-Formation.

It’s crazy how fast this has become normal: Ask a question to any artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, and you get an instant, in-depth answer, even to a spiritual question. AI is already showing...

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On My Shelf: Life and Books with Kelly M. Kapic

On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked Kelly M. Kapic—professor of theological studies at Covenant College and a...

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The Last Supper review – not much meat on the bones at Jesus’s famous final meal

Undemanding retelling of Jesus’s choice miracles, breaking bread at dinner and the subsequent crucifixion and resurrection ticks basic boxes but offers no depthAnother contribution from the fast-gr...

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When Your Kids Don’t Live Up to Your Expectations

In today’s world, we often crave limitlessness. We prize technological advancements that promise around-the-clock productivity. We worship larger-than-life athletes who appear to defy the bounds of...

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The Other Book that Shaped America

In 1812, the aging revivalist Edmund Botsford imparted a few words of wisdom to a young South Carolina pastor. Among the most valuable books to read, John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is, for Botsfo...

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Implement Intergenerational Discipleship in Your Church

God used life-on-life discipleship to grow my faith. He placed an older and wiser man in my life who somehow knew everything I needed to hear, even when I didn’t want to hear it. That man asked me ...

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‘Project Hail Mary’ Offers the Good, Clean, Fun Moviegoers Have Missed

Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary is an enormously entertaining sci-fi page turner with a brilliant narrative structure and endearing characters. But it’s also quite sciencey—full of brain-bendin...

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What Singles Need from Married Friends

When we were single in our late 20s, a former roommate and I noticed that spending time with certain couples felt easier and more life-giving than it did with others. But why? Though I recently go...

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Through ‘the Doorway of Heaven’: In Honor of John M. Perkins

I read a tattered copy of John Perkins’s With Justice for All as a newly regenerated teenager in the 1990s. It had an indelible impact on my young Christian mind. If I had known that some twenty ye...

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Poverty Doesn’t (Always) Look Like You Think

“I just want to know how best to help when I see someone on the corner asking for money.” I’m a ministry practitioner focused on helping churches and parachurch organizations understand and addres...

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8 Things Caregivers Should Know About Dementia

I found my 88-year-old mother reading her Bible. “I didn’t know Cain killed Abel,” she said. “I guess that’s why Abel never visits us.” This made me chuckle and yet grieved my heart at the same ti...

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‘Forevergreen’ Brings the Gospel to the Oscars

It’s not every day that a Christian-made, gospel-inspired film gets nominated for an Academy Award. Perhaps the last time it happened was Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life in 2011. But this year,...

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How to Let Scripture Interpret Scripture

Benjamin Gladd and Nancy Guthrie outline principles for making sound biblical connections, tracing themes in the text, and avoiding common pitfalls of biblical interpretation. The New Testament in...

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How to Raise Pro-Life Kids in 2026

Last year, a study found that the percentage of regular churchgoers identifying as pro-life plummeted from 63 percent (in 2023) to 43 percent (in 2025). But wait, it gets worse. That matches the ...

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Let George Herbert Deepen Your Faith

Sometimes poetry helps us understand truth that logical reasoning cannot. Describing the effects of a severe health crisis, Ben Palpant writes, “I could not track an argument in prose, but I could ...

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Christian Parents Need the Classics Too

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Examine Anti-Aging Treatments in Light of Scripture

As a woman, I’ve always felt pressure to be beautiful. I felt it in high school, in college, and through my 20s. But as I’m navigating my 30s in the age of social media and my smile wrinkles increa...

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The Last Reformed Blogger

Long after it was cool, Tim Challies kept blogging. When his contemporaries—such as Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds, Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost, and Jared Wilson at The Gospel-Driven Ch...

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Discover the Theological Roots of Whole-Person Care

Today, we’re bombarded by questions like “What is a woman?” “Can biological men play women’s sports?” “Is it possible for a girl to transition to a boy, or for a man to become a trans woman?” and “...

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‘If Staying Brings Scars’: A Pastor Reflects on Remaining in Beirut

Lebanon has lived with conflict for decades. The war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 returned and escalated after October 7, 2023. After watching a year of fighting at Lebanon’s southern bord...

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