Theology+Spirituality
Long-standing norms against drinking, tattoos, and Catholic-coded church practices have rapidly fallen. What’s going on?
What we can learn from the chronicler’s stories about the kings of Israel.
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The Church Fathers Belong in Creation Debates. But Handle Them with Care.We can humbly seek their wisdom without treating them as mascots for one position or another.
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AI Preachers and Teachers? No Thanks, Say Most Americans.American Bible Society study finds majority don’t trust technology with spiritual matters.
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A New Era of AI Is Here, and the Church Is Not ReadyIn the uncanny valley of the shadow of data, we should fear no evil—and prepare for a very different future.
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The Miracle of the EarSpeech was not God’s only miracle at Pentecost. The Spirit also gave the gift of understanding, overcoming division and contempt.
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The Sustaining Breath of GodAs a physician, I witness countless first and last breaths. As a Christian, I am constantly reminded of how God breathes life into us through his Spirit.
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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.
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Pascal Is More Than His Most Famous ArgumentThe wager only scratches the surface of his relevance to a post-Christian era.
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In the Beginning, Did God Make ‘Sky Father’ and ‘Earth Mother’?Māori Christians in New Zealand bristle at newly translated portions of the Bible that use the names of local deities.
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Why the Pacific Islands Are 90 Percent ChristianIt wasn’t only because of missionaries from the West, says a Tongan Australian theologian.
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Reality Is Now a Diss TrackDrake and Kendrick Lamar’s rivalry reveals our craving for controversy—and what’s lost when community is based on shared hatred, not love.
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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep TrainI’m learning that motherhood is less about technique and more about wisdom and formation.
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Digital Lectors for a Postliterate AgePostliterate people still need God’s Word, and online Bible ventures have found eager listeners.
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Marilynne Robinson Reads Genesis Without AnxietyUnperturbed by debates over the book’s relationship to modern thought, she helps us appreciate its marriage of literary structure and theological claims.
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Died: Ferdie Cabiling, Philippines’ ‘Running Pastor’One of the founding leaders of Victory megachurch, he never stopped running to share the gospel.
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Yes, Paul Really Taught Mutual SubmissionWhy Wayne Grudem’s interpretation of Ephesians 5:21 is untenable.简体中文繁體中文
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Goodbye Postmodernism, Hello MetamodernismOur apologetics must evolve to engage with the new cultural mood of the next generations.español
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Conservative Methodists, UniteAfter this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.
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Why Almost Nobody Likes a Politician Shooting Her DogThe widespread outrage over Kristi Noem’s book should awaken moral responsibility—not just toward pets but for one another.
News & Reporting
- Baptism by Flood: Kherson Christians Persevere After Ukraine Dam’s DestructionOccupied, liberated, and now underwater, Kherson remains on the frontline of fighting—and faith, as a local seminary president explains.
- Digital Bibles Help Men Read More But Retain LessData suggests Christians are unaware of the effect the medium has on the message.español
Global Gospel Project
Even in the New Testament, talking with God is mostly unilateral. But he does answer.
Português简体中文繁體中文A Word Can Be Worth a Thousand Pictures
Why the pulpit—and not the screen—still belongs at the center of our churches.
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