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Q: AI Griefbots? A: Heidelberg Catechism

Exactly one week after my grandfather met my 2-year-old and 3-week-old daughters for the first time, Jesus called him home. A combination of difficult pregnancies for my wife and the COVID-19 pande...

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My Generation’s Digital Boredom Makes Us Spiritually Hungry

My generation is bored. It’s not the quiet, porch-swing boredom our grandparents knew. Not the kind that sends you outside just to see what happens or forces you to make up games. It’s not the bor...

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Can Science Point Us to God? A French Bestseller Makes the Case.

France’s spiritual landscape looks like the secular, post-Christian desert many American Christians hope to avoid. Secularism has a long history in France, from its Enlightenment philosophes, to th...

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Brain Implants, Yes or No?

In early 2023, the FDA approved Neuralink’s first brain-computer interface for human use, subsequently allowing a paralyzed patient, Noland Arbaugh, to control a computer cursor with his thoughts a...

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Love Your Neighbors Through Your Investing

When my family arrived in the United States from India, we eventually settled in Medford, Massachusetts, an Irish and Italian neighborhood, with one Indian family now tossed into the melting pot. M...

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What I Learned from Bach, the Worship Director

The Swiss theologian Karl Barth once said, “It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille, they pl...

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Editor’s Pick: 6 Books on Biblical Theology

The Apocalypse Tapestry is a medieval work of art that tells the story of the book of Revelation, originally in 90 scenes stretching over 140 meters. As a woven tapestry (in contrast to the iconic ...

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This Christmas, Know the Promise of Christ’s Presence

Read Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold,...

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Free Christmas Playlist (and Other Music Recommendations)

According to the Christian calendar, the Christmas season began at sunset on Christmas Eve and runs for 12 days (you know, “The Twelve Days of Christmas”). That means you should crank up that Chris...

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How Hebrews Opens Up Psalm 110

“Hebrews is my number one book if I were to pick one book of the Bible to keep always with me, because it is—I can say—the whole Bible in ‘one book.’” So my friend Gadissa wrote to me recently. Gad...

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The Year of Nicea: 6 Books in 2025

On May 4, 1940, Dorothy L. Sayers opened an address to leaders of an adult discipleship program for the Church of England with these fiery words: It is worse than useless for Christians to talk ab...

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52 Weeks in the Word

This talk from TGCW24 by Trillia Newbell explores the what, when, where, and how of Bible reading. Newbell looks at different approaches to reading, studying, and applying God’s Word, as well as st...

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My Favorite Movies of 2025

In some ways, 2025 felt like cultural stagnation, devoid of memorable “wow” moments. Despite a modest box-office rebound from previous years, most news out of Hollywood this year was ominous: AI’s ...

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Show Up with Real-Time Theology for Our Rapidly Changing World

“Remember what happened with social media? We didn’t show up,” says Pat Gelsinger, former Intel CEO. He’s lamenting the lack of Christian representation and influence during the advent of social me...

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The Guardian view on the festive season: a suffering world needs messages of peace, hope and goodwill | Editorial

The fracturing multilateral order has led to a new age of insecurity. But acts of courage and solidarity can point the way to a better futureIn one of his last sermons, the great Christian theologi...

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We’re pastors. The fight against Maga Christianity starts locally | Doug Pagitt and Lori Walke

Trump’s movement has used the Christian faith to fuel oppression. Here’s how we are standing against itDonald Trump wants us to believe that the “war on Christianity” is spreading across the globe....

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The Role of Gratitude in Mental Health: An Islamic Perspective

The world is full of distractions and challenges, and many people struggle to maintain inner peace and emotional balance. Feelings of emptiness, stress, and dissatisfaction often arise when life se...

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The Scopes Trial at 100: Fact, Fiction, and the Christian Historian

This year marks the centennial of the Scopes Trial of 1925, one of the most famous moments in what has come to be called the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy. The controversy was actually a ser...

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Resist the Peer Pressure of a Secular Job

Since I started working in a secular environment, I have started struggling as a Christian. Help! If you’re employed, your work environment may occupy the largest portion of your time. So it’s w...

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On My Shelf: Life and Books with Michael McEwen

On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked Michael McEwen—a pastor, publisher, and author of The Devil Reads Nietzsc...

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Make Repentance Part of Your Holiday Preparation

Read A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low;...

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