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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
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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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“Great. So, it’s a massive problem. Now what?” In the second part of my conversation with Justin Lee, we turn our discussion to how one resists a culture of fragmentation
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Did Jesus dream of Electric Sheep? Probably not. But how should Christians think about their relationship to technology in an age of mass distraction? In this episode, Justin Lee (contributing
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In our Second Episode, Pastor John and I sit down to tackle the subject of Evangelicals and the Life of the Mind. Using Mark Noll’s book, The Scandal of the
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