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High hopes for the new pope in hard times | Letters

Zaki Cooper says bridge-building in our troubled world is a sacred task, and Christina Thomas says that, for once, demagogues and dictators have been sent offstageIt is encouraging to hear Pope Leo...

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‘AI Companions’ and the Christian Doctrine of Friendship

On a long-form podcast with comedian Theo Von, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaked that his company is working on artificial intelligence (AI) companions. The average American has fewer than three frie...

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How Moms Can Care for Women Experiencing Infertility

As I walked through infertility, I found, unsurprisingly, that those most ready to comfort me were women who had experienced reproductive loss themselves. While some precious friends who haven’t sh...

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Tim Keller’s Overlooked Teaching That Will Endure for Generations

I know a thing or two about trying to summarize the life and work of the late Tim Keller. It’s not easy, but it’s rewarding. No one has taught me more about the Christian life. And if there’s one p...

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The Ruthless Elimination of Sloth: An Appeal to Young Men

“You can be anything you want, but you cannot be a loser.” Harsh? Perhaps. My dad told me this when I was in high school and contemplating my future. What was a loser for him? It wasn’t someone wi...

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Don’t Let TikTok Disciple Your Kids

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued that “the medium is the message.” As a teacher, I feel this daily. Given the choice between a lecture and a YouTube video, which one will help me present the ...

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Time Is Short, Moms. Be Encouraged!

You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the...

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5 Ways to Keep Learning After College

Recently, I overheard some students talking about life after college. One said he couldn’t wait to graduate and be done with school. He expressed his eagerness to sell all his books. Sadly, this at...

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How Does ‘Sinners’ View Sin?

Sinners, the new film from Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), is a box-office smash and critical hit. Already the highest-grossing original film in many years, Sinners has been heralded as a welcome sig...

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The Guardian view on Pope Leo XIV: a different kind of American leader | Editorial

The first pontiff from the United States can be a powerful countervailing voice in the Trump era, and help protect Francis’s legacyTwelve years ago, in the words of the late Pope Francis, the Catho...

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9 Things You Should Know About Pope Leo XIV

On May 8, 2025, the Catholic Church announced the election of a new pope. American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church and spiritual leader to ...

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Why ‘Chasing Your Dreams’ Settles for Too Little

We’ve all learned the proper way to read a book: You begin at the first page, move steadily through the chapters, and finish at the end. It’s a simple, logical progression. But when it comes to an ...

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Resist the Cultural Tide. Go to Church.

When I started in pastoral ministry 15 years ago, the intellectual arguments of New Atheism were the most popular objections to Christianity. I read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins to understan...

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Pope Leo XIV to hold his first mass as pontiff as Catholics around the world celebrate – live

Pope will hold private mass in the Sistine Chapel at 0900 GMT, during which he will give his first papal homilyRobert Francis Prevost: the moderate, good humoured first US popePope Leo’s in-tray: p...

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What will the new Pope be like? He’s chosen to be called Leo: that’s no accident | Catherine Pepinster

Popes who take that name tend to be progressive reformers. If Trump and JD Vance think they have an ally in the Vatican, I think notCatherine Pepinster is a former editor of The TabletShare your vi...

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The First Classical School on Capitol Hill

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments for allowing Oklahoma to fund a Catholic charter school. Two days later, President Donald Trump proposed a budget that would cut the Education Departmen...

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Christianity’s Thick Answer to the Problem of Evil

After college, I spent a semester interning in Washington, DC. One day I went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. It’s a dark experience where you’re confronted with the tragic deaths of 6 million Je...

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Your Church Needs You to Show Up

Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk with Vanessa Hawkins about the vital and beautiful role the church should have in every Christian’s life. They discuss what keeps people from regular church ...

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Recovering Richard Lovelace: Why His Vision of Spiritual Renewal Still Matters

In 2020, Tim Keller revealed one of his most influential inspirations for his long and fruitful ministry: “Anyone who knows my ministry and reads [this man’s] book will say, ‘So that’s where Keller...

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Graduate, Step Up to More than the Podium

It seems like yesterday. I sat in the last row of chairs with my peers and classmates at the commencement ceremony. As my friends were called up to receive their degrees, a sense of dread overshado...

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Pictures of Jesus: The Resurrection and the Life (John 11:1–53)

In this lecture, Don Carson discusses John 11, focusing on Jesus’s delayed response to Lazarus’s illness and subsequent death. Carson highlights the irony in this account, illustrating how Jesus’s ...

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