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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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Find Joy in the Dish Room

Over the summer, I’ve been working at Calvin University. Not as a resident assistant, a researcher, or a teaching assistant. I’m a line server in the school’s dining hall. Not the most glamorous po...

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My Best Friend Is a Church Grandma

Ask me who I connect one-on-one with most outside of family, and you might be surprised at my answer: a woman from church about 40 years older than me. Not a peer, or a cool twentysomething, but a ...

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How to Wash Windows for God’s Glory

“So what are you doing for work, Evan?” Aunt Nikki asked, passing the peas. It was Christmas dinner. The entire Georgia family had gathered under one roof to celebrate Christ, play cards, and consu...

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From High School to Campus: Stay Rooted in Christ and Guard Your Heart

Before heading to college, I wasn’t too concerned about preparing myself spiritually. Looking back, I wish I had been. Imagine standing at a fork in the road: one path draws you closer to God, the...

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Don’t Skip Judges in Women’s Bible Study

When an email from church announced an upcoming women’s Bible study on Judges, my mind raced to various passages, trying to grasp how we’d talk about this book as a group of women in an extremely p...

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How to Kill the Seven Deadly Sins with Grace

Few doctrines are more obvious, or more personally experienced, than the reality of sin. As Reinhold Niebuhr quipped, “The doctrine of original sin is the only empirically verifiable doctrine of th...

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My Mom, Her Drug Addiction, and God’s Grace

In our comfortable age, we often avoid affliction at any cost. But I’ve learned that Christian suffering isn’t without hope and that God often uses our pain to bring about redemption. In sixth gra...

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