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If the Bible Isn’t the Ultimate Truth, What Is?

If the Bible Isn’t the Ultimate Truth, What Is?

Wrestling with Faith, Scripture, and What Really Matters
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Dan Foster
The Cross and the Swastika

The Cross and the Swastika

How the Nazis used Christianity, and what it means for today’s American churches
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Bri-anne Swan
The Most Important Bible Character You’ve Never Learned About

The Most Important Bible Character You’ve Never Learned About

How One Overlooked Story Changes Everything We Know About the Holy Spirit
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Dan Foster
How to Support the Dying with Music, Words, and Silence

How to Support the Dying with Music, Words, and Silence

Lessons from a Palliative Care Specialist on Presence, Listening, and Love at the End of Life
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Carolyn Ancell
The 40 Reasons I’m No Longer an Evangelical Christian

The 40 Reasons I’m No Longer an Evangelical Christian

Why I walked away from the faith of my youth
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Dan Foster
Five Years Since COVID-19 Started: Has the Church Learned Lessons?

Five Years Since COVID-19 Started: Has the Church Learned Lessons?

Was it simply the time when the decline accelerated?
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Paul Walker
How Lent Calls Us to Resist and Reclaim Our Souls

How Lent Calls Us to Resist and Reclaim Our Souls

What Jesus knew about power, distraction, and the fight for our attention.
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Bri-anne Swan
Why Using the Bible to Win Arguments Is a Losing Strategy

Why Using the Bible to Win Arguments Is a Losing Strategy

If You’re Using the Bible to Prove a Point, You’re Missing the Point
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Dan Foster
The Lost Art of Asking Questions

The Lost Art of Asking Questions

How Politics, Social Media, and Faith Have Forgotten the Power of Inquiry
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Paul Clarke
Does God Send People to Hell — Or Do They Choose it For Themselves?

Does God Send People to Hell — Or Do They Choose it For Themselves?

Breaking Down the ‘Self-Inflicted Hell’ Argument
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Gary L Ellis
And the Soul Goes Marching On — A Lesson on Death and Dying

And the Soul Goes Marching On — A Lesson on Death and Dying

The Grateful Dead once sang, “Every silver lining has a touch of gray.”
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Cedric Johnson, PhD
Similar Pronouncements of Jesus Christ and Lao Tzu

Similar Pronouncements of Jesus Christ and Lao Tzu

By human standards, their dismissal of fighting evil is nonsensical. What did they mean?
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Jon Canas
Living By God’s Love Over God’s Word

Living By God’s Love Over God’s Word

There’s this phrase we throw around in Christian circles: being led by God’s Word.
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Gary L Ellis
Since I Still Go To Church …

Since I Still Go To Church …

Why Do I Delight In Being Part Of A Group Of Writers Who Struggle With Church?
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Carolyn Ancell
Pilgrims at the Crossroads: A Chinese Theology of Religions

Pilgrims at the Crossroads: A Chinese Theology of Religions

Navigating Faith in a Land of Many Gods
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Rene Guo
The Sermon I Would Preach If I Had One Last Chance

The Sermon I Would Preach If I Had One Last Chance

For the Weary, the Worn Out, and the Ones Who Wonder
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Dan Foster
Unmasking The Real Principalities and Powers

Unmasking The Real Principalities and Powers

Seeing what Paul saw and meant
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Gary L Ellis
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