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Theology
What Christians Miss When They Dismiss Imagination
Understanding God and our world needs more than bare reason and experience.
Douglas Estes
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Reason and Logic Belong to God. So Do Imagination and Myth.
A new book explores what C. S. Lewis believed about the multileveled nature of reality.
Louis Markos
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AJ Sherrill: The Importance of Imagination
The church should empower curiosity and foster imagination...but does it?
Father's Day
The Last Gift My Father Gave Me
A surprising encounter with my dad, Jesus, and Jerry Seinfeld opened a door to long-awaited healing.
Michael Cosper
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It’s Never Too Late to Forgive a Flawed Father—or to Ask How He Got His Scars
What an attention-starved son learned while reconstructing the life of his distant dad.
Chad C. Ashby
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Books
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Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture
Aaron M. Renn
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Defiant Joy: Find the Hope to Light Your Way, Even in the Darkness
Jennifer Michelle Greenberg
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Songs I Love to Sing: The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship
Edith L. Blumhofer
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Hope for God's Creation: Stewardship in an Age of Futility
Andrew J. Spencer
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Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nijay K. Gupta
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Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness
Darrell L. Whiteman
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The Caregiving Boom Needs Spiritual Support
By calling or circumstance, millions in the “sandwich generation” feel the weight and cost of tending to aging relatives.
Ericka Andersen
Would Tim Keller Care If We Weren’t Still Talking About Him? Probably Not.
For all his greatness, we should most seek to imitate the late pastor’s humility and indifference to fame.
Benjamin Vrbicek
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Christian Women in India Lack Inheritance Rights. Could Hindu Nationalists Help?
The Uniform Civil Code seeks “one nation, one law” to govern citizens' personal lives, but religious minorities fear hidden costs.
Surinder Kaur
Q&A
Why the Pacific Islands Are 90 Percent Christian
It wasn’t only because of missionaries from the West, says a Tongan Australian theologian.
Interview by Geethanjali Tupps
Creating Christian College Presidents for the Future
A first cohort of scholars consider whether God is calling them to executive leadership.
Hannah Vinueza McClellan
Public Theology
Reality Is Now a Diss Track
Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s rivalry reveals our craving for controversy—and what’s lost when community is based on shared hatred, not love.
Russell Moore
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Died: Gospel for Asia Founder Athanasius Yohannan
The champion of “native missions” trained more than 100,000 evangelists but got in trouble for financial mismanagement.
Daniel Silliman
Bringing the City of God to the Cities of Earth
Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work—and how their work affects your faith.
Rabekah Henderson
Digital Lectors for a Postliterate Age
Postliterate people still need God’s Word, and online Bible ventures have found eager listeners.
Brad East
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SBC Membership Falls to 47-Year Low, But Church Involvement Is Up
Amid the continued declines, Southern Baptists are celebrating back-to-back years of growth in worship attendance and baptism.
Kate Shellnutt
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