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Tolkien Prophesied the Smartphone

On July 29, 1954, a man prophesied the iPhone. His name was J. R. R. Tolkien. Only, he called it by a different name: the Ring of Power. Here’s how he described it (emphasis added): It would be a...

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Be Faithful at Work, Even When It’s Not Your Dream Job

After graduating from college this spring, I had four days of rest before jumping headlong into a full-time corporate position. People congratulated me on landing a job straight out of college—esp...

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Want a Calm and Quiet Soul? Psalm 131 Can Help.

In Psalm 131, King David writes about having “a calm and quiet soul.” Calm and quiet. Those certainly aren’t words I typically use to describe my soul. My husband and I relocated from Illinois to ...

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Aging in a Culture Obsessed with Youth

At a time when we typically live longer than any generation before us, it seems all we want to do is preserve our youth. From hair dye to microblading, antiaging creams to Botox, we negotiate with ...

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From Sermon to Article: Turning Oral Teaching into Written Content

Every week, you study the Scriptures, analyzing a narrative’s movements or the structure of an epistle’s argument. You prayerfully consider each text’s meaning and application. Then you put pen to ...

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How Politics Hijacked Nonprofits

Nonprofits have a long and storied history in the United States. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited this country in the 19th century, he intended to study its prisons. Instead, he wrote one of the ...

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How to Make Friends in Real Life

Courtney and Melissa talk with Christine Hoover about why we need friends and how to make them. They discuss how to get over the awkwardness of walking into a room where you don’t know anyone, why ...

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Rosalía’s Lux is more than epic Catholic pop – it grapples with a world fraught with complexity and crisis | Carlos Delclós

Behind its lavish ‘nun-core’ aesthetic, the Spanish star’s hit album pushes us to think beyond good and evil – to see that we contain multitudesI went into Lux primed not to like it. Not because I ...

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Sing About Exodus with the Psalmists

“Look how united America was!” “Good people around the world stood against tyranny.” “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” “That’s why they call it the greatest generation!” “Scie...

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Take It from Me, Don’t Use AI to Cheat in School

“I understand that this is an awkward time in the semester to tell you this, and quite frankly, I feel ashamed writing this email.” I typed this sentence in a convenience-store parking lot as I sa...

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Why the Goal of Spiritual Formation Can’t Be Balance

“There was a good 10 years where it felt like somebody had a boot on my chest.” This is how Justin Vernon—known as Bon Iver—describes the season before making his most recent album, SABLE, fABLE. A...

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To Understand the Old Testament, Recognize Its Allusions

Somewhere on the list of stories rarely included in children’s Bible storybooks is Samuel hacking Agag, the Amalekite king, “to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal” (1 Sam. 15:33). For many, God’s com...

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Meet the Gen-Z Pastor

Twenty-seven-year-old Saolomon Mouacheupao grew up in a family that went to church. But after he came to faith as a high school sophomore, his first impulse was to stop attending. “I felt disenfra...

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Paul Helm (1940–2025), Philosopher of the Doctrines of Grace

Paul Helm, who died on December 29 at home in Gloucestershire aged 85, was the leading philosophical defender of Calvinism in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years. Helm was the best kind of Ca...

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Psalm 119 Isn’t 176 Independent Statements

Psalm 119 is one of the most famous chapters in Scripture—mainly because it’s so long. Christians have found it fascinating, edifying, and beautiful. But one challenge of studying and understanding...

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5 Habits for Better Prayer in 2026

One of my closest friends moved across the country. I’ve learned that in long-distance friendships, every bit of communication matters. Our steady stream of texts and short voice memos is the glue ...

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Satan’s Tactics Shouldn’t Surprise You

As long as I can remember, I’ve heard the warnings. Reading the Goosebumps books, playing Magic: The Gathering, or even dressing up for Halloween have been presented as open doors to the demonic. ...

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Final Reckoning: Grace That Glorifies Christ

All people, including believers, will “stand before the judgment seat of God” (Rom. 14:10), and every person will “receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil” (2 Cor...

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Renew Your Prayer Life

Prayer is essential to a flourishing walk with God. Yet too often, our prayers remain shallow or neglected. The apostle Paul models how to use the beauty of Christ’s work as a springboard for hopef...

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Old Advice for a New Year

In the typical flurry of secular articles about the new year, two messages seem loudest. Half the articles triumphantly declare that this can be the year you become the best version of yourself and...

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Rediscover the Book That Launched the Modern Missions Movement

William Carey was born August 17, 1761, in Paulerspury, England, a small village in Northamptonshire. Even today, little more than a thousand people live in the village. But it was into this tiny h...

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