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Why AI Will Write Your Next Sermon

Generative AI has become a nearly daily part of my life in the last couple years, as it has for many others. I’ve found help for home repairs. Diet and exercise plans. Meal preparation. Trip planni...

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Let’s Reclaim ‘Evangelical’ for the Sake of the Global Church

The Christian narrative is a global story composed of a “cloud of witnesses” (Heb. 12:1) from “every nation, tribe, people, and language” (Rev. 7:9, CSB). A striking feature of John’s kingdom visio...

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4 Misconceptions About the 4 Senses

In recent years, evangelicals have shown renewed interest in the hermeneutics of the Church Fathers. Current scholarship has devoted considerable attention to premodern approaches to reading Script...

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AI Can Assist Your Work. But Should It?

For years, we’ve lived with algorithmic AI tools without much noticing them. They’re just bits of technology scattered through daily life. Their ordinary, unremarkable presence seldom invites ethic...

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C. S. Lewis on Why God Seems Silent

Many love C. S. Lewis because of the heartwarming world of Narnia and the logical precision of Mere Christianity. But Lewis considered his true masterpiece to be Till We Have Faces, his dark retell...

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Why ‘The Uprising’ Is a Fitting September 11 Release

What does a film about the English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 have to do with the September 11 attacks? British director Paul Greengrass is releasing The Uprising on the 25th anniversary of one of Am...

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Collin Hansen: I Don’t Understand 9/11. But I Praise God Anyway.

One of comedian Nate Bargatze’s most famous bits recalls his days as a water-meter reader for Wilson County, Tennessee, outside Nashville. After the 9/11 attacks, his employer asked him and the oth...

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Should the Bible Be Taught in Public Schools? No.

Earlier this summer, the Texas State Board of Education approved a list of mandated texts, making it the first state in the nation to have a statewide required reading list. Out of the roughly 200 ...

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Should the Bible Be Taught in Public Schools? Yes.

The state of Texas, where I live, is making the news for its updated mandatory reading list for public schools, which includes passages from the King James Bible. One think tank describes the guide...

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The Subversive Gospel in a Polarized World (Part 1)

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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What AI’s ‘Confessions’ Teach Us About Us

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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Cancel Culture Has Forgotten How to Forgive

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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Everything I Tried Let Me Down. But Jesus Didn’t.

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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How Charlie Kirk's martyrdom fed the right. And then tore it apart – Stateside with Kai and Carter

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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David review – biblical Goliath-slayer animation offers upbeat boybandish worship musical

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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Like Burnham, I was an altar boy. His Catholic upbringing is shaping the way he governs |Julian Coman

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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He may be the king, but is Charles also a bit of a traitor? Dear reader, you decide | Ravi Holy

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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‘A sacred kind of sound’: inside a solar-powered journey to preserve the music of church organs

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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‘Addiction is proof there is a devil. Recovery is proof there is a God’: Irish rockers Bleech 9:3 on struggle, sobriety and their stunning debut

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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Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People) review – one man’s quest to keep Gaelic psalm singing alive

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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Pope Leo is wise, though not infallible | Letters

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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