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Love Island. The Bachelor. The Bachelorette. Are You the One? Temptation Island. Love Connection. Blind Date. The Dating Game. Beauty and the Geek. Next. Love is Blind… In a culture
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You do you. Follow your desire. Seek your own perfection. Reality is something each of us constructs for ourselves by exerting our will and manifesting our desire. Or so we’re
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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