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The Dish on Gossip

When we treat gossip as an “excusable sin,” we ignore the corrosive power it has in our lives and relationships. In this conversation, Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk about why we’re so dra...

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The Most Stunning Prayer in the Old Testament

The books of 1 and 2 Kings aren’t overly interested in presenting powerful models of godliness. Even the accounts of Judah’s best kings like Hezekiah and Josiah, which interrupt the colorful proces...

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A Struggling Pastor’s Journey to Joy

For many years, I was a joyless, powerless, struggling pastor. However, late in life and ministry, God opened my eyes to his glory, the depth of my pride, and the joyful wonder of the gospel. This ...

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How David’s Kingship Illuminates the Gospel’s Genealogies

Genealogies are the least-read segments of Scripture. I have no hard facts to back up my claim. But be honest; when’s the last time you heard a genealogy read in a church service? How quickly do yo...

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The Fatherless Epidemic: Raising Up Men in Urban America

Damien McDaniel has been charged with murdering at least 18 people in Birmingham, Alabama, over the course of 14 months. His alleged victims include a firefighter, a UPS employee, and the mayor’s c...

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Sing with Getty and Other Greats in This New Hymnal

Music and family have always been connected for me. My grandfather taught me the Christian faith largely through our Welsh heritage of singing. Shortly before he died, our family gathered around th...

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Male Friendship Is Declining. Wives Can Help.

Last fall, my husband hesitantly mentioned that some guys from church were planning a weekend away to play golf, and they’d asked him to come. Before I could tell him I thought it was a great idea,...

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Why Finishing Well Matters More Than Visible Success

I already felt overbooked with weddings and studying for my ordination exams and a scheduled shoulder surgery when, unexpectedly, a key pastor left our church. Then the congregation put me in charg...

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Where Is King Jesus When Violence Reigns?

It’s bad enough no gruesome tragedy goes un-noticed by social media. But now we have to see the video of these attacks, almost in real-time. This is no movie. The screams, the fear, the blood—it’s ...

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The N. I. C. E. Dystopia: C. S. Lewis on Escaping Our Humanity

Christmas 1944 dawned well below freezing around Bastogne, Belgium, during one of the coldest winters on record for northwest Europe. Neither the cold nor the harassing German artillery was the wor...

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The Promised Land: Why and to What End?

The exodus is one of the most iconic stories in the Bible, and rightly so. Surely this has to do, in part, with the way subsequent biblical authors pick up the exodus’s images and themes for their ...

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Experiences Shape Beliefs. They Shouldn’t Determine Them.

What makes Christians different from our secular neighbors? Certainly, our worship of the risen Christ and love for others should mark us out. Our lifestyle—fighting against sin, and running after...

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‘Light of the World’: Another Step Forward for Animated Jesus Stories

It’s been a big year for Bible stories on screens. Prime Video’s House of David was a hit. The Chosen season five set theatrical records for the show. And in April, the animated Jesus movie The Kin...

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Who Made Science and Faith Enemies?

If Christianity is true, we must do our scientific work in light of the truth that God reveals himself in creation (general revelation) and in Scripture (special revelation). We must be scientific ...

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Reconnecting with Your Imaan After a Traumatic Event

Finding Faith After the Fall There’s a moment after the storm when everything feels still, but not peaceful. It’s the stillness that follows loss, heartbreak, or fear. Maybe it was the sudden dea...

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Domination by Alice Roberts review – a brilliant but cynical history of Christianity

The humanist historian brings objects to life beautifully, but falters when it comes to people and their beliefsDomination tells the story of how a tiny local cult became one of the greatest cultur...

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The Secular Liturgy of ‘Goodnight Moon’

September 3, 2025, marks the 78th anniversary of the publication of Goodnight Moon, one of the best-selling picture books of all time (more than 50 million copies sold). Author Margaret Wise Brown...

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Redefining Your Worth After a Toxic Marriage: Islamic Reminders for Healing and Growth

You are not what happened to you. Your worth comes from Allah, not from someone who couldn’t value you. Healing Is Not a Luxury; It’s a Right Walking away from a toxic marriage takes courage....

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Things Richard Tice could learn from the Bible | Letters

Some lessons on Christianity and providing shelter to those in need from Rev Richard Stainer. Plus an idea from Sal Mansfield on repurposing church buildings to house asylum seekersI am pleased tha...

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Why the Psalmists Sing About Judges

Before cellphone photo apps, many families kept bulky albums. Good memories—family trips, birthdays, and reunions—populated the pages. You didn’t usually find pictures that conjured unpleasant memo...

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God Isn’t in the U. S. Constitution. Does That Matter?

In his 1978 commencement address at Harvard, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn referred to the West as a “perishing society.” He diagnosed the problem as “the proclaimed and practiced autonomy of man from any...

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