It’s past time the ongoing divide between justice and evangelism was broken down.
The Western mind, by default, seeks resolution of tension, elimination of ambiguity, and distinction in borders. This is true in the world of music, which is mostly st..
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It's not theology, it's politics.
The recent announcement by the Trump administration that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris Accord, an agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions signed by President Obama and leaders from 19..
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Start each week with this encouragement to show and share the love of Jesus.
Episode Eighteen | Two Practical Ways to Show and Share the Love of Jesus with Others
Wes Holland, Program Administrator of the Rural Matters Institute at the Billy Graham ..
The Grand Story of God and Our Place in It
The Grand Story of God and Our Place in It
In this episode of Theology for Life, Ed and Lynn talk about what it means that the Bible is the grand narrative–one story–of God and the Christian life. As we rea..
Should systematic theologies equally rely on Bible verses from the Old and New Testament? Experts weigh in.
Do you ever feel that pastors are always preaching on the same Bible verses? Or that theologians always seem to reference the Gospels and Pau..
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The physical presence of a church and its spiritual impact are not the same thing.
Many of us are busy. So much so that we rush from one thing to the next having failed to stop and assess whether or not our thoughts and beliefs match the current rea..
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Why conservative theologians are defending changing certain Bible verses to include women.
Nothing gets a bunch of evangelicals going like debates over Bible translation.
The latest chatter centers around one of the newest: the Christian Standard B..
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Through God’s work in our lives, we’ve beaten the odds that divorce would be the outcome of our ill-advised union.
I’ve always been a church girl. Most of my earliest memories are tied to the people and the small churches my dad pastored in San Dieg..
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American veteran faces forced return to dangerous homeland that two-thirds of his fellow believers have fled.
Nahidh Shaou could be deported any day now.
As a Christian and a veteran of the US military, being forcibly returned to Iraq—a homeland he..
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Netflix's troubling true-crime docuseries wrestles with what happens when murder and abuse go unpunished.
If you’ve eyed some of Netflix’s recent additions, you’ve probably spotted a picture of a young nun accompanied by the mildly ominous titl..
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