Category: Culture
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What’s a Student to Do?
COVID-19…social distancing…quarantine… These are all words that we seldom, if ever, heard before a couple of weeks ago. Now we see and hear them several times a day. The fact is, we have never seen anything like this before. The spread of the Coronavirus is the type of event that will be in future editions […]
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A Devotional Thought from Richard Dawkins
Last fall, acclaimed atheist Richard Dawkins released his newest book, Out Growing God. For those familiar with Dr. Dawkins’ previous books, the book offers nothing new. However, this book has a more targeted audience: teenagers. Dawkins dedicates the book to “all young people when they’re old enough to decide for themselves.” In the book he […]
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2019 Reading Review
Last year, when I wrote about my reading journey through 2018, I did not know what to expect. I worried about coming across as braggy. I wondered at the anxiety that would come from broadcasting my yearly reading goal. However, I only wanted to encourage others to engage in one of God’s greatest gifts to […]
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Personal > Digital
Have you ever learned a lesson that you should have already known? I spent the first half of this year doing exactly that. I have heard all my life how important friends are. I have been taught since childhood that if I am to have friends, I must be a friend worth having. I have […]
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3 Bible Passages for Thinking about Joshua Harris
Have you heard about Joshua Harris? Chances are you have heard more about him in the past two weeks than you have in the past two years. If not, allow me to update. Two weeks ago, Harris and his wife announced that they were getting a divorce. This is big news for the former megachurch […]
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Why I love Superhero Stories
I love comic books. I love the storylines. I love the history behind the stories. I love the characters—most of them anyways. So, ever since the tidal wave of superhero movies flooded the past two decades, I have been all in. Sure, there were superhero movies before the year 2000, but well-made movies were few […]
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Book Review: So the Next Generation Will Know (McDowell & Wallace)
As a Christian parent, are you concerned that your children have doubts about the faith you are passing on to them? As a youth pastor or minister, are you troubled by the apathy so many of the kids in your youth group show toward spiritual things? As a Christian educator, are you worried that you […]
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Mending the Secular/Sacred Split
Many Christians find themselves living in two separate worlds, one on Sunday and the other the rest of the week. They may see their faith as an add-on that merely supplements their daily routine. The effect that being a Christian has on their lives is limited to nominal traditions and comfort in times of crisis. […]
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A Brief History of the Secular/Sacred Split
In the previous post, I introduced a way of viewing human experience known as the secular/sacred split. In a nutshell, it is the idea that all our thoughts and actions belong in one of two distinct categories: Secular—all that is physical, practical, tangible, and temporal Sacred—all that is spiritual, abstract, intangible, and eternal It is […]
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Beware the Secular/Sacred Split
Charles Spurgeon was famous for referring to the gospel as a caged lion. “It does not need to be defended,” he would say, “it just needs to be let out of its cage.” Keeping that analogy in mind, when we Christians are commanded to give a reasoned defense for the hope we have in Christ […]
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