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Theology
What Christians Miss When They Dismiss Imagination
Understanding God and our world needs more than bare reason and experience.
Douglas Estes
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Reason and Logic Belong to God. So Do Imagination and Myth.
A new book explores what C. S. Lewis believed about the multileveled nature of reality.
Louis Markos
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AJ Sherrill: The Importance of Imagination
The church should empower curiosity and foster imagination...but does it?
Father's Day
The Last Gift My Father Gave Me
A surprising encounter with my dad, Jesus, and Jerry Seinfeld opened a door to long-awaited healing.
Michael Cosper
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It’s Never Too Late to Forgive a Flawed Father—or to Ask How He Got His Scars
What an attention-starved son learned while reconstructing the life of his distant dad.
Chad C. Ashby
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Books
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Does the Bible Affirm Same-Sex Relationships? Examining 10 Claims about Scripture and Sexuality (Biblical response to lgbtq+, homosexuality)
Rebecca McLaughlin
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Flannery O'Connor's Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress
Jessica Hooten Wilson
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Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate
Andrew J. Brown
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Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
Aaron M. Renn
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Defiant Joy: Find the Hope to Light Your Way, Even in the Darkness
Jennifer Michelle Greenberg
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Songs I Love to Sing: The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship
Edith L. Blumhofer
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For Sale: Christian Ministry Headquarters
Evangelical organizations including Wycliffe, CT, and Lifeway are giving up their buildings and developing new models for remote work.
Daniel Silliman
Let the Anxious Children Sing to Me
New worship music offers today’s young believers a wider range of emotions and greater spiritual depth.
Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
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India’s Christians Brace for 2024 Election Results
Church leaders mobilized prayer for parliament and state elections, knowing the question wasn’t whether Hindu nationalists would win but the size of their mandate.
Surinder Kaur
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Died: Lin Chih-Ping, Taiwan’s ‘Fool for Life’ Who Shared ‘Cosmic Light’ Through Eclectic Ministry
The entrepreneur and social services leader had a unique vision for sharing the gospel and reaching people holistically.
CJ Wu
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Against the ‘Audience Capture’ of the Church
Our message cannot be market tested or manufactured.
Russell Moore
How to Flourish as a Creative Minority
An Orthodox Jew advises American evangelicals on how to keep—and pass on—the faith in an increasingly pagan culture.
Seth Kaplan
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Died: Sam Butcher, Artist Who Created Precious Moments
His porcelain figurines sold millions while he built a church inspired by the Sistine Chapel.
Daniel Silliman
Exploited South African Miners Turn to Churches for Help
Pastors help widows take on delayed pensions and negotiate peace amid violent labor disputes.
Nyasha Bhobo
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‘I Thought I’d Be Further Along by Now’
An excerpt on risk, worship, and spiritual growth from
The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God
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Steve Cuss
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To Guard Against the Monsters in My Life, I Became a Monster Myself
A lifestyle of violence and addiction nearly destroyed me, but it brought me to the foot of the cross.
Tanya Glessner
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