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Why Kids’ Books Matter (with Jen Wilkin)

Melissa and Courtney talk with Jen Wilkin about their mutual love of children’s books and why reading to children can be a key part of discipleship (as well as a delight!). They talk about what bo...

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C. S. Lewis’s Overlooked Apologetics Strategy

When you think about C. S. Lewis and apologetics, what books come to mind? Most likely Mere Christianity, Miracles, or The Problem of Pain. These frontal attacks on modern skepticism do undoubtedly...

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Why We Said ‘No’ to IVF and ‘Yes’ to Embryo Adoption

The 2019 Book of Common Prayer contains a liturgy of thanksgiving for the birth of a child and one of thanksgiving for the adoption of a child. When our daughter was born in September 2024, we aske...

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2 Ways to Fail Your Child

There are two ways to fail your child, and they move in opposite directions. You can fail by keeping too much out. You can bring up a child so isolated from anything that goes against your faith t...

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Why Our Baptist Forebears Wouldn’t Support Blasphemy Laws

In recent weeks, there’s been quite a dustup over a recently released book in which R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, argues that “the government has the...

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AI: Empire or Infinity Machine?

Plenty of books, articles, and essays about so-called artificial intelligence are a bit boring. They may be accurate, knowledgeable, worthy, even wise, but they often lack the key elements of drama...

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As AI Leaves You Behind, What Will You Live For?

Can anything good come out of Liechtenstein? When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn traveled there in 1993 to receive an honorary doctorate from the International Academy of Philosophy, the famed Russian dis...

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On My Shelf: Life and Books with Timothy Larsen

On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked Timothy Larsen—historian, Wheaton College professor, and author of The Fi...

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Literal or Symbolic? Reading Revelation Responsibly

Without a doubt, Revelation is one of the most difficult Bible books to understand. It has baffled ancient and modern commentators alike. Yet Revelation continues to capture the church’s imaginatio...

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Hope for the Doubting and Deconstructing

How can you believe what the Bible says about sexuality when Christians have acted so hatefully? How can you be a Christian given the church’s record on race? Questions like these have caused many ...

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Help Teens Navigate Friendship in the Social Media Age

One of the questions I hear most from my students is some variation of “What does it look like to be a good friend?” This is an excellent question and a critical one for teens to evaluate. Many st...

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Our Weakness Is God’s Invitation

Let’s be honest: Most of us are exhausted. We’re exhausted from trying to hold everything together. We’re exhausted from pretending we’re stronger than we are. We’re exhausted from believing that ...

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The Case of the Missing Youth Pastors

Kyle Hoffsmith came of age in what might be one of the world’s most effective youth groups—by the time he and his two brothers hit college, they all wanted to be pastors or missionaries, even thoug...

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AI and Aging: The Grace of Limits (with Autumn Ridenour)

What happens when a machine offers to give you back someone you love? That question opens this episode with Autumn Ridenour. We begin with the idea of a “Granny-Bot”: a chatbot built from a dead...

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What Longevity Influencers Get Wrong About Death

Most of us deal with death by choosing to ignore it. “Being unable to cure death,” Blaise Pascal once wrote, “we’ve decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.” In Pascal’s 17th...

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God Wants You to Be Happy—but Not How You Think

Years ago, I asked my pastor what he felt was the most challenging aspect of ministry. His response: “Persuading unhappy people that what they think will fix them actually won’t.” Finding a more fu...

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Themelios 51.2

The new summer 2026 issue of Themelios has 231 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software. 1. ...

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Science Fiction Reveals Our Fears and Longings

What happens to a culture’s stories when it rejects myths in the name of science? Imagine long ago, a tribe gathered round the flickering fire, telling stories of gods and monsters, rebellion and ...

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Is This College Really Christian?

In the last few years, higher education has suffered a severe loss of trust. Public confidence is at 42 percent, down from 57 percent in 2015. Rising costs, perceived politicization of the curricul...

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A Roach Infestation Taught Me to Rest

Last November, my husband and I moved into a new apartment. Eager to settle in, we quickly got everything set up the way we wanted. We hung curtains, put pictures on the walls, and told all our fri...

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What Job Teaches Us About Suffering

A few weeks after a difficult miscarriage, I wrote in my journal, “I don’t see any reason for this. I thought I was trusting the Lord fully. It seems like an irredeemable loss, a waste of something...

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