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What are fairy tales and why do they matter? This is the question J.R.R. Tolkien took up in a lecture he gave at the University of St. Andrews on March

Continue readingI Desire Dragons: Exploring J.R.R Tolkien’s “On Fairy-Stories”

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When, as a child, were you overwhelmed by reality? What most decisively shaped your imagination as you grew up? Who were the teachers in your life whose love of their

Continue readingFurther Up and Further In: The Endless Education of the Soul through the Imagination (w/ Rev. Hayden Butler)

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In his book on Christian community, Life Together, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”  If you haven’t listened

Continue readingThe Face of God: On Motherhood, Suffering, and the Call of Christ to Love Every Child (w/ Angela Ward)

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It is so easy to be misled.  It is so easy to get caught up in someone’s agenda or to mistake the power of this world for the power of

Continue readingDon’t Be Misled: Witnessing to Jesus at the End of Time

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The End is Near! Don’t Be Left Behind! Prophecy. Anti-Christ. Israel. The Temple in Jerusalem. Wars and Rumors of Wars. The End Times has become a feverish industry of speculation,

Continue readingGuaranteed Pure: A Biblical Framework for the End of Time

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Wellness. Healing. Protection. Blessing. Transformation. Our age of anxiety has birthed an age of remedies, medication, rituals, and therapies whose promises are often breathtaking. As we feel the loss of

Continue readingAn Amulet Over the Heart: Faith in an Age of Magic

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Flannery O’Connor described the modern world as one ruled by a “tenderness that ends in terror.”  Is empathy the same thing as love?  Does the Gospel transport us, affirm us,

Continue readingThe Purpose of the Gospel is Your Holiness: God’s Love in an Age of Empathy (w/ Rev. Chris Stratton)

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We live in a time of incredible instability.  Institutions are crumbling.  The church’s witness is faltering fatally.  Now more than ever, the work of the Spirit in each person’s life–the

Continue readingA Canary in the Coal Mine, P.II: Ministry in an Age of Crisis

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CHURCH-GROWTH STRATEGIES. THE MEGACHURCH MOVEMENT. THE SEEKER-SENSITIVE MOVEMENT.  For the last 30 years, the contemporary evangelical church in America has been the subject of intense devotion, intense marketing, and intense

Continue readingA Canary in the Coal Mine, P.I: Life and Ministry w/ Pastor John Hallowell

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What tempts you?  Why are you tempted?  What is so attractive about sin?  In this final meditation on John Milton’s Paradise Lost, David reflects on Eve’s dream in Book 5

Continue readingThe Reading Room: The Temptation