Everything we take in, from literature to music to the words of a friend, forms us, laying the groundwork for our spiritual, moral and emotional growth. As each of us seeks to understand our own place in God’s creation, how can an imaginative approach help provide wisdom? What can we learn from the ways Christian
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In a world awash with insidious messages about money, can Christians think about it differently? Woven through the Old and New Testaments is the instruction for God’s people to tithe, setting aside a portion of our income to give back to God’s mission. In honest moments, however, many of us find our minds confused about
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Christian faith is often seen as a move away from reason and an embrace of the otherworldly, irrational, and unreasonable. But what if believing is the most reasonable, rational thing a human being can do? Amid mounting evidence that America’s long religious decline has leveled off, and growing dissatisfaction with “do it yourself” approaches to
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In the context of the pagan classical world, the Christian faith was a shocking, even unfathomable inversion of the values systems and structures of the time, and its explosive growth unimaginable. Yet in today’s world, Christianity is often considered boring or backwards. How might we better discern and understand the radicalism of Christianity’s origins, its
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Anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges are surging among both young and old. By some estimates, more than one in five American adults struggle with some form of mental illness each year. There are few untouched – either directly or through loved ones – with the suffering that attends such struggles. What does faith
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