Theology+Spirituality

Our January/February Issue: Fighting FOMO
How fear of missing out fuels our overextended lives, and why the South Pole holds clues to the solution.
The Case for a No-Filter Prayer Life
Why we, as God's friends, can speak to him freely.
Gleanings: January/February 2018
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our January issue).
Lord of the Night
In God there is no darkness, but in the darkness of the South Pole I found God everywhere.
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The Radical Christian Faith of Frederick Douglass
The great abolitionist spoke words of rebuke—and hope—to a slaveholding society.
Baptism Doesn’t Have to Be Divisive
Despite our different methods, we’re all immersed in the same Christ.
Understanding God’s Control When You’re a Climate Scientist
A geophysicist on balancing God’s sovereignty over nature with human understanding of weather.
Kate Bowler: I Reject the Prosperity Gospel but I Still Crave What It Promises
How terminal cancer gave a young historian greater sympathy with those seeking after “health and wealth.”
A Wall of Security or a Table of Fellowship?
Matthew Kaemingk makes a political and theological case for welcoming Muslim immigrants.
A Member of the ‘Little Rock Nine’ Counts Her Blessings, One by One
Melba Beals describes how faith helped her flourish amid many trials.
Evangelicalism Is Far Deeper, Wider, and Greater Than the Foibles of the Moment
An excerpt from 'Still Evangelical?'
As a New Age Enthusiast, I Fancied Myself a Free Spirit and a Good Person
Then a strange dream, an old friend, and a disturbing psalm woke me up to reality.
The Virgin Birth: What’s the Problem Exactly?
Why evangelicals don’t fuss over this doctrine.
God Turns Up In All the Wrong Places at Christmas
It’s easy to miss how strange God’s ‘perfect timing’ is in the nativity story.
When the Gift of Intelligence Becomes the Burden of Alzheimer’s
The strength of human intellect also makes it fragile.
Advent Is a Season of Longing
What does the time spent anticipating Christmas have to do with the wilderness?
This Christmas, I’m Defining Family by My Single Friends
Blood relatives are key to the holiday. But I share a deeper DNA with the body of Christ.
God’s Man, for God’s Work: A Tribute to R. C. Sproul (1939-2017)
Ligonier Ministries founder was a category 5 hurricane of declaration, persuasion, and instruction.
Two Marvelous Truths Help Me Say No to Sexual Sin
As a same-sex-attracted woman married to a man, I was struggling to ward off temptation on my own power. Then God showed me I didn’t have to.
Should the Lord’s Prayer Be Changed?
Experts weigh in on Pope Francis' recent support for changing the wording "lead us not into temptation."

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