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The Stories Culture Tells Us

Various stories guide and even dictate how we navigate the world. We’ve all heard some of these stories’ slogans: “You do you,” “Love is love,” or “Follow your heart.” These “cultural narratives” a...

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Down with the neo-puritans: I say a true Christian can watch horror films – and Emmerdale | Ravi Holy

My praise for the movie Send Help drew brickbats. If it’s new Puritans versus liberal cavaliers, I know which side I’m onRavi Holy is the vicar of Wye in Kent and a standup comedianI posted a rave ...

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Healthy Organization Isn’t Optional for Local Churches

While in seminary, I worked multiple jobs. I served as a youth pastor, coached high school basketball, and worked for a medical equipment company owned by one of our church’s elders. That man’s dec...

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Is God More Eternal than Us?

What do you do if your 8-year-old son looks at you and says, “Dad, if God is eternal, and if being eternal for him means that he had no beginning or end, and Jesus gives us eternal life, but we do ...

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Country diary: Echoes of Iona at this tiny, precious church | Merryn Glover

Kincraig, Badenoch: The Loch Insh Old Kirk is a compelling place, and yet, like the copious wildlife here, it is on the edge of existenceThe snow has retreated to the tops of the Cairngorms and the...

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‘God Told Me’: How We Hear God’s Voice Today

You’ve probably heard about the daring Christian high school senior who finally gathered enough courage to approach the girl he liked and try out his new surefire pick-up line: “God told me we shou...

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20 Insightful Quotes About Cultural Apologetics

How do you commend the gospel in a culture that no longer shares its moral grammar? The Gospel After Christendom: An Introduction to Cultural Apologetics (Zondervan, 2025)—edited by Collin Hansen, ...

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Modernity’s Hollowed-Out Search for the Good Life

Last year, as part of the Forming a Christian Mind project, I was invited by a group of Cambridge University students to help them tackle a couple of pressing questions. First, what does it mean to...

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Pastors: Ministry Resilience Comes Through Weakness

As another calendar year came to an end, I took time to review the previous 12 months. There were many things to celebrate. Yet the list of the challenges and struggles our pastoral team had faced ...

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How Your Investing Could Change the World

“Do any of us really want to be in the position where our retirement account grows in sync with the cancer ward?” That’s the question posed by Robin John about tobacco, responsible for 100 million...

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Why Are Medical Groups Now Opposing Gender Surgeries for Minors?

The Story: Within days of each other, the American Medical Association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons have issued recommendations that gender-related surgeries for minors be deferred ...

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Editor’s Pick: 8 Books on Spiritual Disciplines

Raise your hand if you aren’t as consistent in spiritual disciplines as you feel like you ought to be. Most of us can identify opportunities to grow in our pursuit of Christlikeness. For those who...

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Find Sabbath Rest as a Family

A friend whose kids are older than mine once asked me if I’d seen a particular movie. I simply shook my head and replied, “I’m in that stage of life.” My friend had no further questions. He remembe...

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What’s the Point of Fasting?

My dad has been a runner for over a decade—he has completed more than 60 marathons, and he even ran the whole length of New Zealand solo in two months. I had always thought he was crazy, and I clai...

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‘Solo Mio’ and the Lost Art of Clean Rom-Coms

Have you heard that the rom-com is dead? The genre’s endangered status has been much discussed. Whether because of industry shifts toward IP-driven films, changing audience tastes, or a lower cultu...

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Relational Wholeness vs. Relational Idolatry

Codependency, dependent personality disorder, toxic relationships—these are popular terms in counseling and psychology. But as Christians, we want to understand how they fit with or overlap the sin...

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How Christians Can Out-Narrate Nietzsche

Primarily known today as a rebellious German intellectual, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was first recognized in his own time as a highly gifted classical philologist: a scholar who studies ancie...

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Let Orthodoxy Fuel the Fight for Justice

The call for justice reverberates from the Bible. Yet many Christian activists see their advocacy for justice as more significant than maintaining doctrinal orthodoxy. It doesn’t have to be this wa...

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Fighting Materialism in a Materialistic World

Melissa and Courtney talk with Jen Oshman about the lie that our worth is measured by what we possess. They discuss why we try to fill a God-shaped hole with earthly things and how to recognize m...

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New Research Confirms Jesus’s Miracles

In chapter 5 of his Gospel, Luke unfolds the following scene: Jesus is teaching in a crowded house, and a paralyzed man is lowered through the roof to ask for healing. Jesus answers by forgiving hi...

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Reading Romans 7 with John Newton

If you’re familiar with Romans 7, you probably know the passage either for the abject misery and debilitating condition of “the wretched man” (v. 24) or for the debate over that individual’s identi...

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