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How Spirituality Reshapes the Depressed Brain

As I left the exam room in my family practice clinic, I realized the patient I had just seen was the third young woman that afternoon expressing moderate to severe depression symptoms. Each voiced ...

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What the Gym Can’t Give You

We all own items previously owned by others, whether cars or coffee pots. While exercising recently, I realized that the weight bench I was sweating on—the tool I use to stay fit, healthy, and aliv...

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New Year’s Goal-Setting for People with Actual Lives

It’s that time of year again for advice on goals, resolutions, and fresh starts. All you need to do, they say, is wake up at 5 a.m. so you can journal for 20 minutes. Also, set SMART goals and revi...

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Why Women Are Going to Therapy Instead of Church

In my role as a women’s ministry director over the past 15 years, I’ve observed an increase in church women struggling with emotional and relational issues and a decrease in women coming to pastors...

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Work and the Meaning of Life

Work is the meaning of life. Got your attention? Your identity is tied to what you do. I bet I have it now. So argues David Bahnsen in his book Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life. Bahnsen ...

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What I Learned from a Year with Lesslie Newbigin

Thirty-three books by one author, read in the order of publication. That was the reading goal I set for myself in 2025. Over the years, I’ve learned to appreciate the writings of Lesslie Newbigin. ...

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5 Ways to Honor an Aging Loved One (Even When It’s Hard)

I’ve experienced tough situations in my adult life, including a divorce, single parenting two young boys, and telling them at ages 8 and 14 that their dad had been killed in a car accident. Despite...

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Editor’s Choice: The Best of 2025

Consider what’s changed in the last 20 years. Consider how you’ve changed in the last 20 years. And consider what never changes—the good news about Jesus Christ. The 20th anniversary year for The ...

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How a Christian Worldview Animates Jane Austen’s Fiction

In my Jane Austen seminar this fall, students were excited to study Austen’s most famous and romantic novels, such as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Many students were well versed i...

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Don’t Overlook the Ministry of Church Greeters

In a world where houses double as impenetrable castles and most shopping is done online, serving as a greeter is countercultural. Greeters reflect an otherworldly gospel. They hold the church doors...

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2 Corrupted Christianities in ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

The latest in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise is, like the previous entries, a Clue-esque murder mystery. The movie invites viewers to consider who among a colorful cast of suspects is guilty. ...

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Not a New Communion: Anglican Reformers Are Always Called Schismatic

Since Gafcon—the Global Anglican Future Conference—released its Martyrs’ Day statement on October 16, 2025, the same question has followed me from Belfast to Sydney to Dallas: Have we just witnesse...

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Creation Is Talking. We’ve Forgotten How to Listen.

When God told Abraham to go and number the stars (Gen. 15:5), he set him a deliberately impossible task. Today, light pollution makes such counting remarkably simple because there are fewer stars v...

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Siblings, Young and Old

Courtney and Melissa talk with Jen Wilkin about how they each related to their siblings while growing up, how those relationships have changed over the years, and how to foster a healthy relationsh...

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How the West Became Pagan—Again

In trying to map out our religious landscape today, it’s natural to reach for the data. Michael Graham, Jim Davis, and Ryan Burge will tell you that in the last 25 years, we’ve lived through the “g...

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Best Christian Music of 2025

The broader music world might be a bit “blah” right now as cultural stagnation grows and the ominous threat of “AI-made music” looms larger. But Christian music is still thriving, surging on Billbo...

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Young Men Need More than Pragmatic Advice

Young men aren’t doing well. In 2022, among those ages 10 to 24, males accounted for 78 percent of fatal suicide attempts. In 2023, males who graduated from high school were about 8 percent less li...

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Reflecting on 20 Years of God’s Faithfulness

The Christian landscape has shifted in significant ways since 2005, the year The Gospel Coalition was founded. In this panel discussion recorded at TGC25, Ligon Duncan, Nancy Guthrie, Collin Hanse...

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‘Sing, Dear Children’: Luther and the Joyful Noise of Christmas

Christmas was a noisy day in Martin Luther’s home. And Luther’s home was already a noisy place! The Black Cloister—the former monastery given to Luther and his family—housed more than three dozen p...

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Holiness Not in Holidays: Why Calvin Preferred the Lord’s Day to Christmas

John Calvin (1509–64) was committed to preaching from the Scriptures. He referred to the Bible as “the school of the Holy Spirit” and was so committed to expository preaching that after a three-yea...

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