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Giving Up on the "Jesus Juke": Four Secular Virtues Christians Must Practice
On faith and work
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My Only Advice for Election Season: Don’t Moralize About Politics
People of good faith will vote for both candidates this November.
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Which Evangelicals Are Woke?
Cancel culture goes both ways.
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Five Ways Reinhold Niebuhr Is Still Relevant
When America's Top Public Intellectual Was a Theologian
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Alistair Begg: Christian Realist
The great danger of Christian realism is that it involves appearing to do evil in the eyes of ones coreligionists.
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Berating the Godfearers
Pursue conversation, not conversion.
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Are We Living in the Negative World?
There is a new positive attitude toward Christianity in our time. And elite ideology is targeting heretics against cultural leftism, not Christians.
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Conservative Christian, Do Not Fear
There is a kind of fear engendered by the conservative Christian take on American culture. But these fears are wrong, and they misguide us. We should…
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A Falsifiable Faith
Instead of hurtling toward the ultimate questions, we should take them in a leisurely stride, building upon common ground and the common pursuit of…
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Three Mindsets that Make Evangelicals Ineffective
“For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.”
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The Evangelical Critics of the Evangelical Majority: On Russell Moore’s “Losing Our Religion”
There is a new divide among evangelicals; rather than between progressives and conservatives, it is among conservative evangelicals. The evangelical…
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