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Commentary: What ‘Black Panther’ Means for Christians
This celebration of black culture and black success points to a bigger story for the church.
A while ago, I stopped watching a certain type of black movie.
In the wake of the black suffering that I saw in real life, I didn’t want to see another black slave scene. I didn’t want the...
December 31, 1969
Why Christian High Schools Are Filling with Atheist Students
Foreign students offer US schools treasure in heaven and on earth.
For most of Wheaton Academy’s 165-year history, it was a boarding school. Boarding was ended in the 1980s, then brought back—structured as host families—in 2006.
“China had just started its student visas a...
December 31, 1969
How History’s Revivals Teach Us to Pray
The case for communing with God in a daring and agonizing way.
From 1949 to 1952, the unthinkable unfolded on Scottish islands known as the Hebrides: revival! Seemingly out of nowhere, a spiritual awakening swept across the islands of Lewis and Harris, replacing post–World War II despair...
December 31, 1969
Why God Still Works Through Fools Like Samson
The deeply flawed Old Testament “hero” was set apart for a very specific purpose.
Growing up in church as a scrawny kid, I was captured by stories of David slaying Goliath, Gideon defeating the Midianites, and especially Samson taking out 1,000 Philistines practically barehanded. While I...
December 31, 1969
Is the Body That 'Betrayed' Me Still 'Very Good'?
What the incarnation affirms about the reality of God's creation.
I tend to sympathize with the Gnostics most in the morning. It’s currently common to deride these early heretics for despising our physicality and rejecting the goodness of creation. But when I wake up and tenderly place my...
December 31, 1969
How the Transgender Narrative Perpetuates Stereotypes
The church can offer hope to those who find it hard to love the body they’re in.
From the time Brandon was a toddler, he was what many call “gender nonconforming.” In preschool, while the boys roughhoused on one side of the room, he played with the little girls. By junior high, he...
December 31, 1969
Commentary: What ‘Black Panther’ Means for Christians
This celebration of black culture and black success points to a bigger story for the church.
A while ago, I stopped watching a certain type of black movie.
In the wake of the black suffering that I saw in real life, I didn’t want to see another black slave scene. I didn’t want the...
December 31, 1969
20 Truths on The Human Right by Rice Broocks
God's Sovereignty, Justice, and Truth.
Rice Broocks’ book God’s Not Dead inspired the movie by the same name, though it’s an apologetics book (that has a brief cameo in the movie) explaining the rationality of the faith.
His new book was just released today. It’s call The...
December 31, 1969
Where Protestants and Catholics Go When They Leave Their Churches
Research shows 1 in 6 US Christians changed their religious affiliation over a four-year span, with nondenominational worshipers leading the way.
Much of the switching in religious identity in the United States over the past several years occurred among the “nones,” specifically...
December 31, 1969
Our Blood Exposes Our Physical—and Spiritual—Health
When we are sick and need to know what can make us whole again, there is no other fount we know.
In the time it takes to read this sentence, your body will produce 17 million blood cells deep in its marrow. To put that in context, that’s as many cells as twice the population of New York...
December 31, 1969
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