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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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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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Hope for God's Creation: Stewardship in an Age of Futility
Andrew J. Spencer
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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nijay K. Gupta
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How to Be a Christian Influencer Worthy of the Name
We do not deserve to wield influence in the church while being simps and sycophants to the secular world.
Justin Giboney
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Moral Failures by Christian Leaders Are a Huge Problem. Can New Standards Help?
ECFA is adding leadership integrity to its accountability criteria.
Megan Fowler
The Secret Sin of ‘Mommy Juice’
Alcoholism among women is rising. Can the church help?
Ericka Andersen
The Loosening of American Evangelicalism
Long-standing norms against drinking, tattoos, and Catholic-coded church practices have rapidly fallen. What’s going on?
Brad East
Don’t Skip Chronicles in Your Bible Reading Plan
What we can learn from the chronicler’s stories about the kings of Israel.
Carmen Joy Imes
A New Era of AI Is Here, and the Church Is Not Ready
In the uncanny valley of the shadow of data, we should fear no evil—and prepare for a very different future.
Russell Moore
Police Officers Are Burning Out. Can Chaplains Help?
Spiritual care is essential as stressors among law enforcement rise.
Kara Bettis Carvalho
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The Caregiving Boom Needs Spiritual Support
By calling or circumstance, millions in the “sandwich generation” feel the weight and cost of tending to aging relatives.
Ericka Andersen
Would Tim Keller Care If We Weren’t Still Talking About Him? Probably Not.
For all his greatness, we should most seek to imitate the late pastor’s humility and indifference to fame.
Benjamin Vrbicek
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Christian Women in India Lack Inheritance Rights. Could Hindu Nationalists Help?
The Uniform Civil Code seeks “one nation, one law” to govern citizens' personal lives, but religious minorities fear hidden costs.
Surinder Kaur
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