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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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Welcome Back, Church Planting

For a while, it looked like the church-planting party was over. Back in the 2000s and 2010s, everyone was there. In 2001, Tim Keller founded City to City. In 2005, Mark Driscoll took over Acts 29....

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Orthodox Yet Modern: Herman Bavinck as Cultural Apologist

In How To Reach the West Again, Tim Keller called for Christians to cultivate a “Christian High Theory”: a method of contextualization whereby Christians don’t merely explain the gospel itself but ...

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My teenager is exploring her spirituality. I support her leap of faith, even as a non-religious parent | Jackie Bailey

My daughter is dipping her toes into sacred waters, seeing what it feels like to surrender and finding a sense of meaning to life that is bigger than herselfMaking sense of it is a column about spi...

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Happy Wife, Happy Life?

The year was 1996. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I stepped into my first day as a federal agent, clad in a crisp cream pantsuit and a sensible ponytail and wearing a silver cross around my neck. My...

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When Iran’s Leaders Praised the Bible

Last year at the Vatican Library, I had the chance to see a portion of the Bible with an incredible history. It wasn’t the famous Codex Vaticanus but a translation of the Gospels into Persian from ...

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Stop Telling Teens to ‘Make Their Faith Their Own’

“My son grew up in church, but now he needs to make his faith his own.” “Look, I know your parents are Christians, but you can’t rely on their faith; you have to make their faith your own.” Have ...

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Is Penal Substitutionary Atonement Biblical?

When it comes to understanding our redemption, many evangelicals emphasize the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement (PSA). Most see repeated evidence in Scripture that Jesus takes the penalt...

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Skepticism Is Not a Christian Virtue

I’ve never thought of skepticism as a virtue, but we live in a world that seems to demand it. In the fourth grade, I rode home on the bus and traded a piece of amethyst for two small red gems. “The...

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Parenting with Hope in an Anxious Age

As our children grow and mature, our anxieties as parents often grow right alongside them. How do we navigate concerns about activities, dating, cell phones, social media, and faith questions? In ...

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Bright and beautiful? The man causing millennial rapture with his school hymn singalongs

Primary School Bangers caused a sensation on TikTok, then at Glastonbury, and now it’s gone nationwide. Is it harmless nostalgia – or a symptom of an increasingly conservative culture? He’s got the...

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Self-Creation Is Exhausting. Here’s Where to Find Rest.

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 19th century, he observed that despite our prosperity, there was a “strange melancholy in the midst of abundance.” Fast forward to the 1990s. In t...

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