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Jordan Peterson Loves God’s Word. But What About God?
The popular influencer’s latest book, “We Who Wrestle with God,” is ambitious, insightful, and slippery on theological truth.
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The Black Church Has Five Theological Anchors
Walter Strickland’s sweeping narrative of African American Christianity portrays a big God who is strong to deliver.
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As the famous British author once said, crediting people with things they never said says something about us.
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More churches embracing solar power to care for creation and cut energy costs.
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Modern parenting can be isolating and exhausting. But in the church, raising children is a shared responsibility.
Yours, Mine, and ‘Our Father’
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus calls his divided followers to pursue unity as the family of God.
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View archivesAs this issue hits your mailboxes after the US election and as you prepare for the holidays, it can be easy to feel lost in darkness. In this issue, you’ll read of the piercing light of Christ that illuminates the darkness of drug addiction at home and abroad, as Angela Fulton in Vietnam and Maria Baer in Portland report about Christian rehab centers. Also, Carrie McKean explores the complicated path of estrangement and Brad East explains the doctrine of providence. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt shows us how art surprises, delights, and retools our imagination for the Incarnation, while Jeremy Treat reminds us of an ancient African bishop's teachings about Immanuel. Finally, may you be surprised by the nearness of the “Winter Child,” whom poet Malcolm Guite guides us enticingly toward. Happy Advent and Merry Christmas.
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Stories of Christian conversion
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I Made Millions as a Porn Star. It Nearly Cost Me Everything.
My adult-film career destroyed my sense of self-worth, but God wouldn’t let it define me.
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When I Opened My Bible, God Gave Me a Magnifying Glass
I was a Sikh student worrying about my grades when my eyes were drawn in dramatic fashion toward the truths of his Word.
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My Deconstruction Turned to Deconversion. But God Wasn’t Anxious.
He pursued me patiently across decades, as I passed from fundamentalism to progressive faith to another faith altogether.
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My Dreams Had Come True. But the Panic Attacks Remained.
How I discovered God’s peace and found relief from debilitating anxiety.
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To Guard Against the Monsters in My Life, I Became a Monster Myself
A lifestyle of violence and addiction nearly destroyed me, but it brought me to the foot of the cross.
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