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SoulWork: Mark Galli

In this biweekly online column, Mark Galli brings news, Christian theology, and spiritual direction together to explore what it means to be formed spiritually in the image of Jesus Christ.

Mark Galli is managing editor of Christianity Today and author of Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God (Baker, 2006), Francis of Assisi and His World, and other books.

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Are We Transformed Yet?
Why the spiritually mature don't talk about how God has made them spiritually mature.

Mark Galli | posted 2/04/2010 09:27AM

Point of Crisis, Point of Grace
Why it's crucial to recognize how little we're being transformed.

Mark Galli | posted 1/21/2010 09:31AM

Long Live Organic Church!
But what do we do if the world isn't transformed?

Mark Galli | posted 1/07/2010 10:30AM

How to Have a Merry Christmas
And it doesn't require you doing another blessed thing.

Mark Galli | posted 12/23/2009 11:57AM

Waiting for Jesus to Show Up
Moving from loving the idea of loving God to loving God.

Mark Galli | posted 12/10/2009 10:33AM

The Impossibility of Thanksgiving
Why gratefulness is more gift than duty.

Mark Galli | posted 11/25/2009 10:45AM

Yawning at the Word
It's really hard to listen to God when there are really interesting things to think about.

Mark Galli | posted 11/05/2009 10:33AM

Leaning Over and Getting Close
The neighbor is closer than we imagine.

Mark Galli | posted 10/08/2009 09:52AM

A Pretty Good Religion
Be wary of anyone who starts praising Christianity.

Mark Galli | posted 8/27/2009 10:07AM

Danger: God
What should we think about a deity who gives us sticks of dynamite to play with?

Mark Galli | posted 8/13/2009 10:08AM

We've Won the Lottery—Now What?
The meaning of evangelical scandals—including our own.

Mark Galli | posted 7/30/2009 09:26AM

A More Civilized Christian Right
Why the conservative movement is a model of democratic values.

Interview by Sarah Pulliam | posted 7/30/2009 09:21AM

The Great Evangelical Anxiety
Why change is not our most important product.

Mark Galli | posted 7/16/2009 11:18AM

The Scandal of the Public Evangelical
What we really have to offer the world.

Mark Galli | posted 7/02/2009 09:10AM

Chaos Theology
Finding hope in the midst of the terror of creation.

Mark Galli | posted 6/18/2009 11:32AM

Does Twitter Do Us Any Good?
How the movement of the Trinity can help us decide.

Mark Galli | posted 6/04/2009 09:42AM

Speak the Gospel
Use deeds when necessary.

Mark Galli | posted 5/21/2009 11:41AM

How to Handle the Next Pandemic
Christians at their best have an odd answer.

Mark Galli | posted 5/07/2009 09:11AM

How to Shrink a Church
It's not that easy, but hopefully it's the new evangelical trend.

Mark Galli | posted 4/23/2009 10:17AM

Happiness Is Not Hope
How Easter Sunday can become the unhealthy denial of death.

Mark Galli | posted 4/16/2009 08:59AM

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Talk, Research, Marry
What Elizabeth Gilbert discovered about marriage before she ate her words in Committed.

Review by Cindy Crosby | posted 2/09/2010 09:49AM

Casting Too Wide a Net
Ministries protest proposed finance reform.

Ken Walker | posted 2/09/2010 09:50AM

Readers Write
Your responses to the December 2009 issue of Christianity Today.

posted 2/09/2010 09:52AM

Why Pope John Paul II Whipped Himself
New book reopens questions on self-denial and "what is lacking in Christ's afflictions."

Collin Hansen | posted 2/08/2010 09:11AM

Quotation Marks
Recent remarks Jim Dobson's new organization, Montana's assisted suicide, and other topics.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 2/08/2010 09:12AM

More important than winning the argument against relativism is winning the relativist for Christ.

Mark L. Y. Chan | posted 1/21/2010 04:23PM

My Top 5 Books on Sports
Picks from Andrew Parker, professor of sport and Christian outreach at the University of Gloucestershire

Andrew Parker | posted 2/05/2010 10:01AM

Go Figure
Recent statistics on converts' zeal, faith-based funding, preaching social issues, and other topics.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 2/05/2010 10:00AM

FRC, AFA Say Gay Sex Should Be a Crime
The debate over antisodomy laws moves from Uganda back to the U.S. Also: Groups debate immigration reform, abstinence education, and Scott Roeder.

Tobin Grant | posted 2/05/2010 11:31AM

Are We Transformed Yet?
Why the spiritually mature don't talk about how God has made them spiritually mature.

Mark Galli | posted 2/04/2010 09:27AM

Faith Equals Action
To White House Fellow Adam Taylor, the math is simple.

Mark Moring and Tim Stafford | posted 2/04/2010 09:29AM

Strong on Zeal, Thin in Knowledge
Lessons from Haiti's arrest of American Christians trying to take children out of the country.

Jedd Medefind | posted 2/03/2010 09:56AM

Poll: Does your church tend to attract a certain age group?

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