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February 10, 2017
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Essays

Sphere Sovereignty and the Electoral College

by Donald Roth
…literal translations, such as the NKJV, preserve this sense in Romans 12:17-13:5.  ↩ Revelation 21:22-27.  ↩ For more on this concept, see Neal DeRoo’s piece from In All Things, or, to read about how this could be practically applied, pick up Abraham Kuyper’s Our Program: A Christian Political Manifesto, recently published by the Kuyper Translation Society.  ↩ The federal government can incentivize certain regulation by offering grant money, but i…
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December 17, 2014
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Spotlights

Be salt and light

by Brian Hoekstra
…, for example, and running a successful business requires the ability to accomplish goals, meet deadlines, and complete projects. Other skills such as conflict management and good communication can be developed and purposefully employed in the business environment. Many businesses offer training programs to help their employees develop and grow in these and other areas, and these skills are useful in different social spheres such as at home or vol…
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January 2, 2018
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Books

Surviving Secular Apocalypse: A “How-To” Book for the End of the World

by Justin Bailey
…to watch all seventy episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Their mostly spoiler-free engagement with popular media undergirds substantive engagement with social theory, especially the work of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. Indeed, the primary contribution of their volume is to give an evocative précis of Taylor’s short book The Ethics of Authenticity, rendering their volume an essential complement to James K.A. Smith’s How (Not) to be Secular (i…
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October 13, 2017
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Essays

A Response to the Responses: On Women, Celebrity, Institutions, and Authority

by Tish Harrison Warren
…all Christian leaders—male and female alike—have oversight and accountability that matches the weight of their authority and influence.” I wholeheartedly embrace Payne’s call for embodied theological communities, and that “the best theological conversations come from face-to-face encounters, preferably with good food and drink.” That has certainly been true in my life. I dearly hope women will be key and enduring voices in those embodied communit…
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February 22, 2023
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Culture

Apocalyptic Films: Questions to Ask

by Elyse Kuperus
…stics of these “new” worlds, but what has escaped examination are the very real, albeit small-scale, apocalypses happening all around us that produce similar landscapes.”1 In some ways, we all will experience mini-apocalypses, whether that be witnessing the decay of our fallen world or experiencing a life-altering event. While the outlook on life and the future offered within apocalyptic cinema is rather grim, it offers a poignant question that sh…
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November 7, 2016
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Essays

On Voting and Civic Participation

by Matthew Arbo
…h Grudem’s proposal. On a more fundamental level, at the heart of this vote-for-the-policy-but-not-for-the-man approach lies a highly reduced account of Christian political participation to voting, a related reduction of theological judgment to utilitarian tactics, and an untenable bifurcation between a candidate and his policies. Let us begin with the matter of voting. It is important to note at the outset that voting is a crucial and important p…
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January 30, 2017
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Essays

Who is My Neighbor?

by Tom Clark
…is not a neighbor. It is a question of how would a neighbor respond? One becomes a neighbor when one acts out of self-sacrifice to bear the cost of the destruction wrought by others. So in a way I was a neighbor one Saturday morning when I drove to Edgerton years ago to fix a mailbox and get my license plate back. It did not matter that it was my friend to whom I had lent my car that had hit the mailbox. It became my responsibility to be a neighbo…
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June 15, 2018
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Interpreting Scripture through Mystery, Doubt, & Ancient Lit: A Review of “Inspired”

by Kayt Frisch
…n paper (to determine right and wrong), before pushing her into an on-again-off-again faith in the decade following college. This book is the fruit of her early-adulthood struggles with how to live with and love the Biblical text for what it is—even coming to terms with its concubines, rape, and genocide. Through her journey she has found that “when you stop trying to force the Bible to be something it’s not—static, perspicacious, certain, absolut…
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June 8, 2023
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Intentionality in Time: A Review of Tranquility by Tuesday

by Kayt Frisch
…wer. The principles in Tranquility by Tuesday provide structure that can help us calm the chaos and live more fully in community with others. https://www.oprah.com/home/how-to-get-7-more-hours-in-your-day/all  ↩ pg. xvii  ↩ pg. 103  ↩ pg. 12  ↩ pg. 116  ↩ pg. 243  ↩ pg. 244  ↩ pg. 242  ↩ pg. 135  ↩ pg. 147  ↩…
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November 2, 2022
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Podcast

Podcast: LOWERING our Expectations of Human Virtue with Dave Zahl

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…ster syndrome” and sets us free from the “fantasy self we are failing to become” – Why communities organized around vulnerability and weakness are healthier and more hopeful than communities organized around strength and success. – How low anthropology responds to contemporary phenomena like celebrity culture and cancel culture – How sermons, churches, and discipleship look different when we operate on the priority of the heart rather than the hea…
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January 19, 2015
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Essays

MLK Day

by Liz Moss
…Address at March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs Letter from Birmingham Jail (view the document and listen to the audio) An open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr., this letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. The letter was widely published and became an important tex…
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March 1, 2018
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Challenge and Opportunity: Abraham Kuyper’s Evaluation of Islam

by Jordan Ballor
…nlightened. For Kuyper, however, the vital power of this religion, this all-encompassing worldview, was undeniable. It was, as he puts it, a mystery or an enigma, a riddle that had to be acknowledged and wrestled with. Kuyper opens the second volume of his travel narrative with a chapter on “The Enigma of Islam,” and as he observes, “Islam appeared suddenly, like a brilliant meteor, in seventh-century Arabia, and from Mecca it quickly began its mi…
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June 13, 2019
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The Logic of Limitations: A Review of The Common Rule

by Justin Bailey
…ese things place further limitations on our freedom. But there is a deeper freedom—the freedom to become who we were created to be—that is found not in the absence of limitations, but in embracing the right limitations. My marriage vows limit me, but they also set me free. My children limit me profoundly, but they have also opened up enormous new space for me to experience love, joy and grace. The Scriptures limit me, but their limitations ultimat…
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June 23, 2016
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Devotions

Sharing the Gospel Well

by Nathan Tintle
…Christian colleges, my entire life was spent attending and teaching at non-Christian schools and universities. In those multi-religious settings, I often felt unable to represent who I truly was for fear (real or imagined) of what others would think, say or do. My form of evangelism was probably best summed up by a student who, one time outside of a class I was teaching at a large state university, said to me “There is something different about y…
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June 12, 2017
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Essays

Brain and Soul: Implications for Life

by Bruce Vermeer
…a loss of one’s self-identity and self-awareness—characteristics that are commonly associated with the soul. There have been numerous times during my clinical career when I have observed the empty, glassy stare of a person in this stage of Alzheimer’s disease. It is necessary for the monist to accept the very real possibility that the soul of the individual suffering with advanced Alzheimer’s disease may cease to exist before the body dies. This…
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February 18, 2020
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Christian Discipleship: Commodity or Community?

by Ben Rowe
…the internet or checking social media Christian ads, and you will come face-to-face with the subtle/ not so subtle marketing strategy that the local church cannot disciple on their own without the purchase of some sort of product: Want to equip your church leaders? Buy the proven techniques of today’s top leaders. Want your church to grow? Pay for marketing strategies with guaranteed results. Want to disciple kids? Go check out the glut of well-pr…
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May 31, 2017
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Culture

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

by Donald Roth
…ike if Jim Gaffigan spent his whole comedy routine in his nasal-voiced meta-commentary mode. However, Charlie Hunnam is more Abbott than Costello, and when Ritchie is working with a straight man, the slick banter and self-aware style comes off with a more winsome sincerity. There’s no doubt that this movie proceeds at a frenetic pace, but the chemistry and bravado of the leads allows for some emotional blows to land and resonate in a way that woul…
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December 6, 2022
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Review

The Gospel’s Joyful Tiding: A Review of Interpreting Your World

by Jessica Joustra
…’” J. Joustra and H. Bavinck Such a vision has been at the heart of the neo-Calvinist world-engaging, perhaps even world-transforming vision: this is God’s world; one he is in the process of renewing and restoring through his grace. It has led thinkers like Al Wolters to discern helpful distinctions between things like “structure” and “direction,” God’s original, good, creational design and the ways that we direct our patterns and actions in the w…
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June 11, 2020
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What Has Jesus to do with John Wayne? A Review of Jesus and John Wayne

by Scott Culpepper
…Voters,” Time, January 23, 2016, https://time.com/4191598/donald-trump-says-he-could-shoot-somebody-and-not-lose-voters/, Accessed May 16, 2020.  ↩ Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism, New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.  ↩ Heather Cox Richardson, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, O…
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January 18, 2019
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Netflix Review: “Bandersnatch”

by Josh Matthews
…ion named Tuckersoft. Stefan’s videogame is based on a massive “choose-your-own-adventure” book that he loves, also called Bandersnatch. The book was written by a genius science-fiction writer who went crazy and killed his wife. Working on his game, the threat to Baxter is that he might become like this writer: obsessive, delusional, and then insane. In the course of the film, no matter which branches of the story you choose, Baxter needs to figur…
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February 1, 2017
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Soccer 2, Saints 0: World Soccer as a Rival to Traditional Religion

by Scott Waalkes
…s a problem for Christian communities that cannot be ignored. Detail from t-shirt for sale on e-Bay While Reformed Christians believe that God is in all things—and that service in all spheres of life is service to the Creator of all—what happens if one sphere expands its reach at the expense of another? What if it turns out that young people are serving Sport as an idol to the detriment of worship of the true God? What if the rival liturgies of Sp…
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April 21, 2017
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Essays

Every Story Matters

by Chelsea Maxwell
…t remember a time when her mother was not angry and tired. Yes, I am detail-oriented, but there are never names in these stories – at least, not real names or other identifying information. At most, I will record the season and year. Oftentimes, these are the details that are irrelevant anyway, because I hear the same stories repeatedly: “My dad kicked me out – quite literally – when I told him I was gay.” “You have to know, we had good paying job…
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May 18, 2015
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Essays

My Brother, My Sister

by Charles Veenstra
…ay not bring out the result that we desire. Nevertheless, faithfulness to God requires that we continue to work and pray—including this prayer: “Come quickly, Lord Jesus. Come quickly and make all things new.”…
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September 27, 2016
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Essays

Pastoral Reflections on the Election Cycle

by Mark Verbruggen
…l saw ahead to this great truth and he says, “I saw one like a Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. To him was given dominion and glory and kingship, that all peoples, nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and all his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed.” (Daniel 7:13-14) We don’t despair because w…
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April 22, 2016
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Essays

Can Role Models Drink?

by Donald Roth
…ople feel that happiness is escaping reality, as God made it, through drugs--and that with such devastating effects. We are now facing a similar situation with recreational marijuana as it teeters on the edge of legality. Although it is arguably less harmful than alcohol, and the medicinal benefits may be greater, the arguments for its recreational use are similar to those for alcohol, and part of the same desire to dangerously alter our reality….
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