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Brad East is an associate professor of theology at Abilene Christian University. He is the author of four books: The Doctrine of Scripture (2021),The Church’s Book: Theology of Scripture in Ecclesial Context(2022), The Church: A Guide to the People of God (2024), and Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry (2024). He also writes regularly on his personal blog. He lives in west Texas with his wife and their four children.
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The Guillermo del Toro adaptation brings unique perspective—but fails to match the depth of its source material.
Most Christians aren’t monks, missionaries, or martyrs. We’re unimpressive and unsatisfactory—yet saved by God’s scandalous grace.
A case study in how Christians talk about theology, featuring a recent dustup over penal substitutionary atonement.
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Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church.
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The West has long agreed: Hitler is all we aspire not to be. But Alec Ryrie’s new book shows this waning consensus can’t uphold all our public ethics.
The early church earnestly considered the question of Gentile observance of Jewish law and customs. Their answer was a firm no.
Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among American Christians?
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Michael Huerter’s The Hybrid Congregation is an earnest effort to enrich our worship. It is also naive, superficial, incurious, and wrong.
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Clare Morell’s The Tech Exit succeeds where so many volumes fail, never flinching at the digital crisis faced by families, schools, and churches today.
The hit YouTube channel features five Christian guys who have wholesome, competitive fun. As a tech-skeptical father to boys, I’m grateful.