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Study: “most clergy, including white evangelicals, endorsed a medical approach to treating depression in addition to a spiritual approach.”
“The study found that 87% of evangelical clergy said they would encourage their congregants to seek help from a mental health professional when suffering from depression. (85% of Black Protestants, 97 ...
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The Fading of Forgiveness: Tracing the disappearance of the thing we need most.
“It’s no wonder that this culture quickly becomes littered with enormous numbers of broken and now irreparable relationships. Politics itself becomes a new kind of religion, one without any means of ...
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What Does It Mean to Take God’s Name in Vain? – Carmen Imes on Exodus 20:7
“Is it just about using God’s name irreverently, or is there more to it?….the historical, linguistic, and theological dimensions of this command, including how it relates to bearing God’s name as His ...
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Timeline: SBC Sexual abuse investigation-related costs approach $13M since 2021
“It may be hard to believe now, but funding wasn’t a primary part of the conversation—at least from the floor—when Southern Baptists approved the initial investigation in 2021. Approving the ...
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Is Seventh-Day Adventism making a comeback?
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
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God Makes Much of Little Things
“God isn’t just in life’s monumental things. He’s present in the little things: rain drops, the artistry of spider webs, and the sound of an acoustic guitar. A child’s laugh…. If we disregard these ...
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On the Supernatural: Can We Call It Something Else?
We’re supposed to have the supernatural, the unseen, on our minds all the time as Christians. It’s a vital feature of the ...
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A Consideration of New Covenant Passages (Part 2)
As for Me,” says the LORD, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your ...
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You’ve likely heard the Serenity Prayer − but not its backstory
“Over the years, the prayer has often been attributed to other Christian writers, including Thomas Aquinas, Augustine and Francis of Assisi. Many people might be surprised to discover that, far from ...
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What Is Sacred Work?
“What I intend to do in this discussion is to take a fresh look at and break down the sacred-secular divide. I have a new idea that may cause us to think a little deeper about this critical topic in ...
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The Pursuit of Ignorance? A Conversation with Author Mark Lilla on His Book – Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know
“I try to suggest in the book that the struggle between wanting to know, curiosity, and wanting not to know, which is a resistance to knowledge, that those two forces are present in our minds all the ...
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On Christian Doctrine
“The first book is by far the richest for Christian devotion. Here Augustine distinguishes between things that should be ‘enjoyed’ (God alone) and those that should be ‘used’ (everything else, ...