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Happy Thankless Thanksgiving
Paul hardly ever thanked anyone directly. What can his refrain “I thank God for you” teach us about gratitude?
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How a Dark Sense of Humor Can Save You from Cynicism
A bit of gallows humor can remind us that death does not have the final word.
Yours, Mine, and ‘Our Father’
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus calls his divided followers to pursue unity as the family of God.
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How to Get Through the Next Four Years
The nonstop news cycle will be crazy. You don’t have to be.
The Consolation of Providence
The doctrine of God’s wise and sovereign governance doesn’t make history easy to interpret. It makes living through it endurable.
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Let Heaven and Nature Wail
In this season, a baby’s cry can say more than a simple “Merry Christmas.”
The Incarnation Is More than the Manger
How an ancient African bishop championed the incarnation’s redemptive arc.
Paul’s Prescription for a Polarized Church
The apostle’s ethic of welcome challenges our personal, social, and political instincts.
THEOLOGIANS IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY
Anselm
Reluctant bishop with a remarkable mind
Martin Luther
Passionate reformer
Thomas Aquinas
The brilliant “dumb ox”
Augustine of Hippo
Architect of the Middle Ages
John Calvin
Father of the Reformed faith
Athanasius
Five-time exile for fighting “orthodoxy”
Karl Barth
Courageous theologian
Biblical Beasts and Where to Find Them
What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred?
The Evangelical Legacy of Gustavo Gutierrez’s Liberation Theology
How the Peruvian priest influenced the fathers of integral mission.
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Election Day Can Help Break Our Addiction to Hope
Real hope is not an argument, an opioid, or a sunnier form of despair. It’s a person named Jesus.
Does Jesus Tell Us to Prioritize Caring for Our Own?
The story of Jesus and the Canaanite woman is provocative, but for different reasons than we might think.
Featured Books
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The ‘Least of These’ and the Quest for a Post-Christian Conscience
Human suffering should not cause us to categorize our neighbor but to be one.
My Friend, Bill Pannell
A reflection on the trailblazing Black theologian and his influence on American evangelicalism.
Which Church in Revelation Is Yours Like?
From the lukewarm Laodicea to the overachieving Ephesus, these seven ancient congregations struggled with relatable problems.
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The Bible Doesn’t Fit an Information Age
Algorithms strip us of mystery. The Gospels restore our ability to be astonished by the truth.
5 Lessons Christians Can Learn from the Barmen Declaration
How a wartime confession resisted Hitler’s Nazification of the German church, and why its principles are still relevant today.
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A Hurricane Doesn’t Tell Us Who to Hate
What natural disasters reveal about God and neighbor.
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How the ‘Jezebel Spirit’ Keeps Empowering Sin
The phrase is convenient for demonizing women—while teaching people to excuse immorality.
The Cross in an Age of ‘Spiritual Derangement’
Twentieth century theologian P.T. Forsyth’s work reminds Christians today to put the cross before and the world behind.
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