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March 30th, 2021
Church Membership Keeps Declining in the United States: What Does The Generational Trend of Secularization Tell Us?Is Unbelief Being Passed on from Generation to Generation in Britain? Observers Claim that the UK is Now Truly Post-ChristianNew Words, New Moral Reality: How Changes in Language Point to More Fundamental Moral Changes in Society.
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March 30th, 2021
Byron Barlowe opens a series on biblical discernment for dark days, likening wise discernment of current events and abiding issues to examining bills and coins to verify their authenticity. Being able to tell the difference between good vs. bad, right vs. wrong, fruitful vs. unfruitful, and subtle lies that captivate believers is a long-term discipline that is a Christian’s duty and...
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March 29th, 2021
I’ve been thinking a lot on the fact that Jesus was born in a cave. Here is an expanded version of an article I wrote which was published last week at The Stream website: If you have set up your nativity scene by now you probably put the figures in a quaint, wooden stable.
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March 24th, 2021
According to a recent poll published in Reason magazine, trust in American political parties is at an historic low. For the first time, more than 50 percent of the electorate now identifies as Independent, as opposed to Republican or Democrat.
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March 10th, 2021
It’s hard to imagine anything so unsettling as learning that a spiritual hero has been living a secret life of egregious sin. Stunned, shocked, and shaken, you might not know how to process news like this. Here are five principles to help you through it.
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February 1st, 2021
The evidence is anecdotal, but the lesson from the reaction of some of the world’s poorest Christians to hunger and government restrictions on large gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic is a powerful one for their American counterparts, says Janice Rosser Allen, CEO and president of the global church planting ministry ICM.
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January 14th, 2021
Does purity culture need a reevaluation? Author Rachel Joy Welcher says yes. She offers a thorough one in Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality.
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December 31st, 2020
In an interview with Relevant Magazine, author and pastor Rick Warren asserted that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a “fundamental weakness” in American churches: They’re too focused on corporate worship.
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December 21st, 2020
For my sins, I guess, I watched all six hours of the Jericho March proceedings from Washington today, on the march webcast. I say for my sins, but in truth, I decided to watch it because I am interested in what the activist Christian Right is saying, and how they are thinking, in the wake of Donald Trump losing the...
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December 17th, 2020
An agnostic historian just offered some interesting advice to Christians who want to be heard in a skeptical culture: “Preach the weird stuff.”
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