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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,
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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
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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
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How do we understand God in the midst of suffering? What does it mean to search for God and to have trouble finding him? In this meditation on Paradise Lost,
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels… Down through endless darkness and deep perdition. This week in The Reading Room, David plunges deep down into the abyss of the opening books
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“Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe” Gentle listener, for a moment this Advent
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Telos. Nature. Plato’s Cave. In-N-Out. John 8:31-32. And, of course, Giraffes. In this episode, Justin and I attempt to chart the last leg of our history of freedom as we
Continue readingThe History of Freedom, P.II: Giraffes with Long Necks
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“Don’t Tread on Me!” “Get off my lawn!” “‘Merica!” We are a people obsessed with the idea of individual sovereignty and autonomy. We are also consumers at our core and
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Demons. Frank Peretti. Stephen King. The Incarnation. What is the role of literature in the life of a Christian? Over the years, I have heard many Christians dismiss fiction as
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