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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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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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