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Why and How to Give Up Your Smartphone Learn from someone who has never owned a smartphone how to adjust your life and tech users so that you can live smartphone free.

Why Give Up Your Smartphone

Two millennials who never owned smartphones explain how digital abstinence offers freedom from the tech industry's addictive social experiment.

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12 Theses on Church Buildings Church architecture can slide into the ostentatious, but it isn't wrong to care about the aesthetic beauty of the space we use for the worship of God.

12 Theses on Church Buildings

While the church is people not buildings, sacred architecture can aid worship by directing attention heavenward through thoughtful design.

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This World Is Still Not My Home The much derided gospel hymn 'This World Is Not My Home' actually teaches a profound truth the church would do well to hear.

This World Is Still Not My Home

For diaspora Christians, longing for heavenly home reflects genuine displacement rather than escapism, offering comfort to the globally scattered.

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An Excerpt from 'Magician and Mechanic' by Michael Horton The second volume in Michael Horton's 'Sources of the Modern Self' series helps to explain the ascent of utopianism, amongst other things.

Michael Horton traces how medieval eschatology fused spiritual ascent with historical progress, shaping modern utopian ideologies and definitions of advancement.

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Ryle's Vision of the Christian Life The 19th century Anglican bishop J. C. Ryle offers a compelling and useful model for ministry and preaching in our own day.

Ryle's Vision of Christian Life

J.C. Ryle's practical holiness emphasis offers contemporary resources for Christian witness through pastoral care, preaching clarity, and Anglican faithfulness.

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Elites and the Evangelical Class War Much of the fighting around the idea of 'evangelical elites' is bound up in issues of class and the reality that pugilist antics do not produce elites.

Elites and the Evangelical Class War

Contemporary evangelical fractures reflect class conflict between credential-holding elites and working-class congregants more than theological disagreement.

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The Promise of a Christian Small Magazine A small magazine occupies a unique role in the task of creating an ecosystem of mutually reenforcing Christian institutions devoted to the good of society.

The Promise of Christian Small Magazines

In an age of algorithmic content and tribal polarization, small Christian publications offer essential spaces for thoughtful cultural engagement.

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How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.

Creed, Prayer, and Commandments for Soul Care

Like gardening requires understanding each plant's nature, spiritual formation must recognize how different souls need distinct approaches to flourishing.

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Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor? Having an accurate idea of who is rich and who is poor, relatively speaking, can help us better understand the Christian call to generosity.

Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor?

A missionary physician's journey from six-figure American income to African service reveals surprising truths about wealth, poverty, and global perspective.

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The Promise of a Christian Small Magazine A small magazine occupies a unique role in the task of creating an ecosystem of mutually reenforcing Christian institutions devoted to the good of society.

The Promise of Christian Small Magazines

Post-war intellectual ferment in Paris reveals how small magazines can create spaces where ideas spark with energy and new worlds open up.

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How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.

Creed, Prayer, and Commandments as Formation

These ancient texts provide essential scaffolding for spiritual formation by defining what kind of creatures we are and how we flourish.

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Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor? Having an accurate idea of who is rich and who is poor, relatively speaking, can help us better understand the Christian call to generosity.

Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor?

A missionary doctor discovers that most Americans are global tycoons, challenging how we understand wealth's spiritual dangers and generosity obligations.

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You can't clear cut political society. If our political society is like a forest, then attempts to clear cut it will do to us what they do to forests: leave them poorer and sicker.

You Can't Clear Cut Political Society

Evangelical attempts to eliminate secularism ignore the complex realities of political society and the limits of cultural transformation.

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Isolation and Community in Rural America Two recent novels offer dark accounts of loneliness, but also suggest what an escape from loneliness might look like.

Isolation and Community in Rural America

Two novels reveal how rural isolation breeds tragedy and comedy, offering insights into America's loneliness epidemic and potential remedies.

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On Communicating Truth, Goodness, and Beauty Learning to compelling convey truth and beauty is not an ability we simply acquire in a rote way; it is a capacity that is cultivated over a lifetime.

Communicating Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

A framework for how Christians can effectively communicate transcendent values in a culture increasingly hostile to traditional claims.

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Suffering as Spiritual Formation When spiritual formation comes up we think of scripture reading or prayer or a rule of life. But the suffering we don't choose can be enormously formative.

Suffering as Spiritual Formation

One of the most powerful forces shaping Christian character isn't an intentional discipline but an unavoidable reality we rarely discuss.

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When We Become the Product: Heidegger, Han, and Digital Enframing Digital technology orders the world and ourselves as resources ready for market, a process Heidegger calls enframing and Han traces into the digital age.

When We Become the Product

Digital technology increasingly teaches us to see human life as measurable market value rather than inherent dignity.

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A Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership Retired US Navy Vice Admiral John Scott Redd developed a framework for defining virtuous leadership which can apply in a variety of settings.

Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership

Values underlie everything we think, say, and do in ministry leadership, requiring careful attention to foundational principles.

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Tramping Out of Dante's Hell Instead of focusing on what is wrong and distasteful about our world, focus on what you want your life to be about and move doggedly in that direction.

Tramping Out of Dante's Hell

A literary journey through Dante's Inferno reveals timeless insights about sin, redemption, and the path toward divine love.

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The Christian Achievement of Martin Luther King Jr. King remained tethered to a Christian understanding of non-violence and human dignity. This produced a distinctively Christian political strategy.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Christian Achievement

King's insistence that moral fervor demands belief in God challenges both his agnostic allies and contemporary justice movements.

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After the Machine Could a critical mass of people opt out of the machine and pursue more humane ways of life? In principal, certainly. In practice? That remains to be seen.

By Rhys Laverty

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Four Types of Christian Cultural Engagement The work of cultural renewal will not come about through populism, separatism, or revanchism, but only through a principled commitment to healthy reform.

By Jake Meador

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Leah Sargeant Replies Leah Sargeant replies to Agnes Howard, Rachel Aldhizer, and Nadya Williams's reflections on her new book 'The Dignity of Dependence.'

By Leah Libresco Sargeant

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What Has War to Do with Motherhood? We cannot take the value and the beauty of this vulnerability for granted. Sargeant’s book makes no sense outside the Judaeo-Christian worldview.

By Nadya Williams

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The Presence of Christ in Our Dependence Dependence has a language. Need has a way of speaking to us and calling for help, even when it cannot do so with words.

By Rachel Roth Aldhizer

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Dependent in the First Place Americans prefer to think of dependence as a preparatory step before we turn into what we really are—autonomous self-makers. Sargeant skewers this folly.

By Agnes Howard

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The Deconstruction of Evangelical Missions The impulse to foreign missions that has grounded and shaped American evangelicalism for a century is now under attack from many sides.

By Ted Esler

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Leftists Should Be Christian Christman's provocative title makes some good arguments, but is burdened by sloppy argumentation and poor engagement with its sources.

By Bonnie Kristian

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Leah Sargeant Replies Leah Sargeant replies to Agnes Howard, Rachel Aldhizer, and Nadya Williams's reflections on her new book 'The Dignity of Dependence.'

By Leah Libresco Sargeant

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