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Rookie Christian Writers Get a Helping Hand from Seasoned Vets

New opportunities from journalist David Aikman and novelist Jerry Jenkins aim to help aspiring authors who lack a platform.

Exclusive: Christian Wiman Discusses Faith as He Leaves World's Top Poetry Magazine

Wiman's Baptist faith lay dormant until love and cancer unearthed it.

Announcing: The This Is Our City Essay Competition

Tell us about the common-good decisions you or others have made on behalf of your city..

Learning from the Artists about People and Place

Craig Goodworth's installation helped me see God's work in my current home of Durham.

Horton Foote's Daughter: 'He Was the Great American Writer'

On the 50th anniversary of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' Hallie Foote remembers her dad.

When Christian Bookstores Ban Female Body Parts

Unpacking the Rachel Held Evans-Thomas Nelson dust-up over the 'v-word.'

Poet Amena Brown Speaks the Truth in Rhythm and Rhymes

Faith stirs the spoken word poetry.

What Christian Novel Should Be Made Film?

Observers discuss the next Christian novel that could be adapted for the screen.

Eugene Peterson: A Pastor's Journey

The memoirist reads the text of his life, and addresses the parlous state of the pastoral calling.

Not Many of You Should Presume to Be Bloggers

How social media changed theological debate.

Lent in Narnia

Would C.S. Lewis have renounced Turkish Delight from Ash Wednesday to Easter?

Whatever Happened to Amazing Grace?

Why John Newton's famous hymn failed to win, place, or show.

The Folly of Answering Fools

It's time to reassess the posture of perpetual outrage.

Words That Nourish

To read well is to prepare oneself to live wisely, kindly, and wittily.

My Top 5 Books on Poetry for the Soul

Picks by Roger Lundin, the author of "Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age."

Testify!

In nightclubs, coffeehouses, and iPods, true first-person storytelling is becoming a cultural force as it borrows from Christian tradition.

Alissa Wilkinson: Every Square Inch

The writer and editor seeks the redemption of all creation.

Participant First

L. L. Barkat creates in the context of online community.

Mary Beth Chapman vs. God

In a new book, Steven Curtis Chapman's wife is brutally honest about her lifelong feud with the Creator, especially after losing their daughter to an accident in 2008.

Marilynne Robinson Takes on Bad Science Writers

The novelist wades into the religion-and-science debate with 'Absence of Mind.'

Q & A: Anne Rice on Following Christ Without Christianity

The tipping points behind the novelist's departure from the institutional church, and why she still reads D.A. Carson, Craig Keener, and N.T. Wright instead of 'Twilight.'

Bloggers Target Seminary President

Liberty's Ergun Caner accused of false statements in his testimony about converting from Islam.

Marilynne Robinson, Narrative Calvinist

John Calvin has given the Pulitzer Prize-winning author a way of seeing that imbues her novels with the grandeur of God.

Is Self-Promotion Sinful?

A lesson in soul care from J. D. Salinger, who lived in seclusion for a half-century.

Intellectual Blog Feast

Matthew Lee Anderson's online ruminations go deep.

The Green Baptist

Jonathan Merritt seeks a renewed approach to American society.

The Mushroom Hunt

How to find a good biography.

Let us Tell You a Story

Recovering the lost spiritual discipline of reading biographies.

In the Loop: Matters of Life and Death

What the women's blog editors are reading today.

Watching Her Tone

Margaret Feinberg wants Christians to be more gentle.

Boycotting Bloggingheads

Reaction to an Intelligent Design debate shows limit to public discussion.

Donald Miller: Make a Better Narrative

The author of Blue Like Jazz on his new book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, and the risks of over-spiritualizing it.

Letting Words Do Their Work

Why the care of language is more important than ever.

In the Loop: Christians in Court, Women in the Army, and Writing on Faith

What the women's blog editors are reading today.

Mr. Wilson's Wild Ride

Theology in color, motion, and sensory detail. A review of N.D. Wilson's Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl

Creating a Tear-Jerker Ending

Donald Miller hints at what to expect from his upcoming book.

Blog Comments and Christian Courtesy

Some otherwise loving believers could use a remedial course in table manners.

Cal Thomas, 25 Years of Columns Later

After 2,600 columns and 11 books, the syndicated columnist shares his 'wit and wisdom.'

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When your initial enthusiasm fades, you need a plan if you're going to bring your best to your calling

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Pastor Tullian Tchividjian survived a leadership coup by finding rest in the liberating power of the gospel.

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