Domestic Neglect: Can You Hear the Silent Screams at Home?
Our culture of overwork is creating a crisis. After the revelations that NFL players Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson had abused wife and son, respectively, a national conversation erupted. One issue...
View ArticleNot All Vulnerability Is Brave
We don’t have to expose our deepest secrets with every speech and blog post. It’s fitting that writer and actress Lena Dunham begins her debut book with a section on love and sex. The first chapter is...
View ArticleIs This the End for Mideast Christianity?
For Mideast Christians, 2014 has been a year of bloody disaster. Are these churches on the edge of extinction? For Christians in the Middle East, 2014 has been a catastrophe. The most wrenching stories...
View ArticleInterview: The Difference between ‘Platform’ and Pastoral Leadership
Australia pastor Mark Sayers says influence has to be about more than book sales and retweets. In 2008, Mark Sayers was leading a Melbourne, Australia, church known for being culturally engaged and...
View ArticleAll My Children Are ‘My Own’
The theological significance of adoption language. Editor’s note: In honor of the upcoming Orphan Sunday, author and mother Sara Hagerty shares with us the following essay about how the language we use...
View ArticleWhy We Lost the Marriage Plot
And how Christians in the arts can bring it back. In her book I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies, film historian Jeanine Basinger describes a trend that has marked movies for the...
View ArticleWhere Are All the Good Stories about Marriage?
And how Christians in the arts can bring them back. In her book I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies, film historian Jeanine Basinger describes a trend that has marked movies for the...
View ArticleInterview: Before There Was Billy Graham, There Was…
George Whitefield was once the most famous man in America. Historian Thomas Kidd explains why the celebrity evangelist shouldn’t be forgotten. Thomas Kidd, professor of history at Baylor University,...
View ArticleInterview: The Difference between ‘Platform’ and Pastoral Leadership
Australia pastor Mark Sayers says influence has to be about more than book sales and retweets. In 2008, Mark Sayers was leading a Melbourne, Australia, church known for being culturally engaged and...
View ArticleAll My Children Are ‘My Own’
The theological significance of adoption language. Editor’s note: In honor of the upcoming Orphan Sunday, author and mother Sara Hagerty shares with us the following essay about how the language we use...
View ArticleWhy We Lost the Marriage Plot
And how Christians in the arts can bring it back. In her book I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies, film historian Jeanine Basinger describes a trend that has marked movies for the...
View ArticleA Survey Can Make You Less Moral
What behavioral economics has to do with scary statistics. Surely by the time Elijah wandered off into the desert to die, he would have been a hard guy to discourage. He had stood up to some of the...
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