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Expand Your Family at Church

They were three months away from having their first child when they invited me to live with them. I was 22, finishing my last semester of college in a new city. Even then, I knew it was a costly in...

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The Lost Boys of Mercury review – heartbreaking film on the enduring wounds of church-school abuse

Clémence Davigo’s uncompromising film gives voice to three survivors of a French correctional school, and the difficult path towards healingGreat courage, physical and moral, is shown by the three ...

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There’s Only One Way People Change

How do people change? Can they? This question is asked every day, by every culture, in every age. In our contemporary Western world, two approaches predominate. Immersing myself in the writings and...

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3 Threats to Secularism in the West

In this commentary, I reflect on my recent trip to Copenhagen, Denmark, and the broader implications of living in the post-Christendom West. Walking the ancient streets and talking to seasoned chur...

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Not All Reasons for Leaving a Church Are Created Equal

Most Christians will, at some point, ask the question “Is it time to leave my church?” There’s no shortage of helpful articles about how to find a church. But we don’t talk as much about what it m...

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Look Along the Sunbeam of C. S. Lewis’s Writing on Scripture

In his 1945 essay “Meditation in a Toolshed,” C. S. Lewis described standing in a dark toolshed and looking at a sunbeam piercing through a crack in the shed door. He then changed locations so the ...

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How Birth Helps Us Understand Salvation

If you spend any time in women’s ministry spaces, you’re bound to hear a birth story at some point. A new mom brings her baby to Bible study, and other moms share their birth experiences. Or a baby...

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The Problem with Comer’s Cafeteria Approach to Spirituality

John Mark Comer’s book Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like Him. Do as He Did has been declared the ECPA 2025 Christian Book of the Year. It’s no surprise that many evangelicals are discu...

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Aimlessness Is an Evangelistic Opportunity

Hiking after a rainfall, we hit a mud patch so deep we’d have lost our shoes if we’d stepped in it. Thankfully, other hikers had dropped a series of stepping stones. Hopping across them, we arrived...

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Put Strong Teachers in Your Children’s Ministry

Every church has one ministry that shapes its future more than any other. Ironically, it’s often the one that gets the least attention from pastors. Peter’s instruction to “shepherd the flock of Go...

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Church Could (Literally) Save Your Life

Imagine you could save your life through one simple, regular act. You wouldn’t always want to do it. Every week, you’d come up with multiple excuses. The night before would often be a struggle. Sam...

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Tim Keller on Sin and the Way Back to God

Several weeks ago, my husband and I packed all we own into a U-Haul and moved from a sleepy Southern town to a bustling New England city. Leaving behind old friends, family, and familiar stomping g...

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Should We Hold a Funeral for the ‘Third Way’?

The assassination of evangelical political activist Charlie Kirk shocked and horrified Christians in the United States and all over the world. One recurring theme in various conservative responses ...

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The 18th-Century Anglican Who Diagnosed Our Social Media Problem

Long before anyone had heard of going viral or getting ratioed, an 18th-century Anglican bishop delivered a sermon that reads like a diagnostic manual for our social media age. In “Upon the Governm...

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Introducing 6 New Fellows at The Keller Center

When The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics began in 2023, Tim Keller outlined two goals that would define the center’s success. First, the center would help the church become more effective in...

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Have We Ever Been Woke?

“The owl of Minerva flies at dusk.” That was Hegel’s way of saying that wisdom, especially when it comes to the interpretation of history, is only possible at the end of the day when everything has...

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Blessed Are Those Who Wrestle

I was sitting with a friend who felt discouraged by life’s ongoing struggles. She remarked about a particular family she knows—a family in a season of health, financial stability, and children who ...

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Why Does Pop Culture Feel So ‘Blah’ Right Now?

What memorable experience of pop culture can you recall from this year so far? When was the last time a movie, TV show, or musical release had everyone talking? Most of us struggle to answer. Even...

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Jesus’s Atoning Death in Mark

People have a wide range of opinions on how Jesus viewed his own death and resurrection. But it’s important to listen to the Gospels themselves on this topic. They give us eyewitness testimony to J...

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The Logic of Penal Substitution in Leviticus

The doctrine of penal substitution is central to the book of Leviticus. It’s clear that, in the Bible’s third book, atonement is accomplished by a substitute whose death and blood secure forgivenes...

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How a Redeemed Imagination Frees Us from Anxiety’s Power

Inside Out 2 (2024) introduced audiences to an emotion most of us know well: anxiety. One scene provides insight into a critical facet of how anxiety operates as well as the path toward freedom fro...

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