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seven worshipful songs for those who don't like worship music
i don’t enjoy most popular, contemporary worship music. here is what I listen to instead...
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the wages of sin
reflections on the fear of divine punishment
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how to inhabit a world you didn't build
the act of creation is always an act of communication.
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August 2023
how can anything be true?
jesus, bananas...and the nature of truth.
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american idolatry, an interview with andrew whitehead
how christian nationalism betrays the gospel and threatens the church
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stop calling your neighbor a heretic
sometimes a sheep isn't a wolf, it is just a different-looking sheep.
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July 2023
worldview, imagination, and the fragments we hold together
we see but in glimpses, taste but in bites, smell but in wafts, and hear but in echoes reverberating through space far greater than we can comprehend
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the end of apologetics
i am more concerned about loving my neighbor than convincing them i am right
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the theologian as mapmaker
"maybe redemption is not a place you find, but a system of mapmaking"
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June 2023
should we be worried about the future of american democracy?
why I see more hope than terror for our common life
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big news!
'This Common Life' is under contract with Eerdmans Publishing Company!
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the christian life isn’t an exam. it’s an essay.
faith is more like responding to a prompt than taking a standardized test
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