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Does the gospel have the power to bridge the chasms within our polarized society? In the first of this two-part episode, recorded at TGC25, David W. Pao introduces the concept that biblical authors...
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Some months back, an AI coding agent caused a stir by deleting a company’s database and the volume-level backups to that database in nine seconds. It crippled a number of car rental companies’ busi...
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The Christian faith hinges on forgiveness. Christ’s work on the cross initiated what would forever mark history. Church fathers like Irenaeus and Athanasius wrote about forgiveness as an essential ...
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By the time I was in middle school, I had six different types of pets: a hamster, a rat, a gecko, a bunny, a cat, and a dog. (I desperately wanted a turtle, but my mom said no.) Each time I conside...
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Charlie Kirk's death created a vacuum of power that still consumes the Maga right a year later. Immediately after Kirk was shot and killed, his ultraconservative activist organization Turning Point...
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Christian kids’ movie is entertaining during the big battle, but the older bouffant hero’s lack of depth is distracting and the worship songs a weak linkU2’s Bono once described King David as “the ...
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With a prime minister raised in a tradition that emphasises our mutual dependency, we may finally have a leader who can address the anomie gripping our countryLike Andy Burnham, I was once an enthu...
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Britain’s religious right is fuming over a document suggesting the monarch wants to be defender of all faiths. I’m with Charles: what does that make me?We need to talk about King Charles and specif...
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Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instrumentsMichael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were neari...
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After two friends sponsored each other in Alcoholics Anonymous, they started making music. As they gear up for a summer of 40 festivals, the band tell their harrowing yet uplifting storyOn stage in...
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Jack Archer’s gentle film follows the immensely likable Rob MacNeacail as he journeys across Scotland and Ireland in a bid to save these traditional songs of people and placeThere’s no word in Scot...
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Francis Bown responds to Jonathan Freedland’s comparison of Pope Leo and Donald TrumpJonathan Freedland is right: in a contest between a former property developer turned politician and the Vicar of...
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A cottage industry of women are selling courses aligned with a conservative movement that claims feminism is the source of women’s discontentA thirtysomething woman with the easy smile of your favo...
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EU leaders have normalised once fringe racist narratives in their migration, border control and even foreign policiesFor years, Viktor Orbán, with his anti-migrant and white Christian nationalist r...
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With his stand against Trump, the pope has shown the far right doesn’t have a monopoly on Christianity. If people of good faith push hard, the future could be redefinedIn the same way that America’...
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The US president is making a desperate plea to the one group that seemingly hasn’t deserted him – yetHe has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected ...
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The pontiff’s criticisms of Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran indicate a welcome resolve to follow in his predecessor’s footsepsOne year after the death of Pope Francis, the Vatican this week host...
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The US president’s grudge match with the pope underlines how religion really functions in American politicsI’m not a particularly religious person, even though everyone tells me how cool believing ...
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When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome?The battle to be the absolute worst Trump henchman can feel so closely f...
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The president’s attack on the head of the Catholic church and the AI depiction of himself as a Christ-like figure have not gone down well with one of the largest groups of swing voters in the USPoo...
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Based on a true story, Ewan Horrocks as a young German denouncing Nazism and Rupert Evans as a Gestapo officer work well to loosen the Christian saviour narrative gripThis second world war-set feat...