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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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Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church
Stephen O. Presley
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What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice
Rachel Wiseman; Anastasia Berg
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Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims
Adriana Carranca
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The English Soul: Faith of a Nation
Peter Ackroyd
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The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God
Steve Cuss
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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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‘This Is the Day’ for Filipinos to Develop Their Own Worship Music
In a country known for loving Western praise music—Hillsong’s second-biggest market—a grassroots movement is singing new tunes.
Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
Is God Calling Me to Obscurity or Influence?
I want to write to build up the body of Christ, but platform building takes time away from my local congregation.
E. L. Sherene Joseph
Pakistan’s Presbyterians Have United. Reconciling Will Take Time.
After 60 years of division, leaders hope that coming together will strengthen the church's witness.
Isabel Ong
Public Theology
Your Party Will Not Win This Election
And that’s a good thing—because how we think about victory is not only delusional but damaging.
Russell Moore
Put Away Your Swords
Jesus used his final moments with his disciples before the crucifixion to heal his opponent’s ear—and model the way of love.
Esau McCaulley
From the President
A Renewed Invitation to Seek the Kingdom
In these fractured times, we want to focus on Jesus’ call to chase after his will.
Timothy Dalrymple
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CT Design, Redesign, and Re-redesign, from 1956 to Today
How the look and feel of the magazine have changed with the times.
Daniel Silliman
Our Culture Is Obsessed with Being Seen. But Jesus Calls Us to Be Hidden.
In an age of social media celebrity and showy spirituality, we are invited into a holy unawareness.
Rich Villodas
Trump’s Would-Be Assassin and the Twisted Quest for Human Glory
Political violence offers a false sense of meaning. The church must model a different kind of glory.
Russell Moore
One Body, Many Denominational Meetings
Our anxiety over church factions should lead us to dependence on Christ.
Hannah King
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