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April 6, 2017
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Essays

iAt Book Club–The Benedict Option: Optional? and For Whom?

by Erin Olson
…mically poor. Easier said than done since it’s unlikely a call to Bruderhof-style community of possessions will gain much traction. Yet, foregrounding diaconal ministry (and giving) in the life of Christian congregations and creating local inter-church, community-based diaconal service organizations is a viable approach to providing the economic floor for enhancing relational wealth. Second, will a renewed focus on relational wealth creation among…
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January 7, 2020
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Culture

Movie Review: The Rise of Skywalker

by Tom Clark
…Rise of Skywalker more thematically, and as we do, it will be harder to be completely spoiler free—so proceed as you wish. If our first lens was entertainment, the second is what I will term “Nostalgia Machine.” If you are looking for a palate on which to place a variety of musical and character cued moments that queue up fond memories from previous films, you will not be let down. At times, it feels not so much like a film but rather an experienc…
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November 28, 2016
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Gratitude List

by Marta Vander Top
…ined glass windows in Dutch cathedrals #1227 – The way the light dances in communion cups #1514 – Praying with my best friend before her wedding #1679 – Mountains #1705 – Subway giftcards #2122 – Green tea fro-yo #2137 – Learning people’s stories at the nursing home #2166 – The smell inside Panera #2222 – Time alone in the sanctuary #2298 – Washing my mentor’s feet #2406 – Live music #2460 – Vegetarian sushi for lunch with my housemate #2491 – Tal…
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May 18, 2016
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What Did the Supreme Court Decide About the Contraception Mandate?

by Donald Roth
…e (IRC § 6033), rather than the tax exemption qualifications under the more-well-known IRC § 501(c)(3). ↩ David Zubik is a Roman Catholic Bishop of the Pittsburgh Diocese who oversees a charitable trust associated with the diocese. ↩ This included questions regarding the application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, namely, whether this regulation substantially burdened the organizations’ free exercise of religion, and, if it did, whether…
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February 1, 2022
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Desiring Rightly: A Review of Wanting

by Donald Roth
…ul. We have a responsibility to cultivate rightly-ordered desires, and we have a calling to present models of rightly-ordered desire to others. There is only one desire that can never become competitive because it rests in something truly boundless and infinite, and that is a deeper relationship with our sovereign, personal God. …
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June 24, 2016
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Devotions

Do You Want to be Healed?

by
…than any physical ailment (v. 14). Jesus was presenting an opportunity for complete freedom from the bonds of sin. Not recognizing Jesus as a potential healer, the man responds: “Sir, I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” In other words, “Yes, I want to be healed, but I cannot. I’ve tried, I have done everything I know how. I want to get in that water; I…
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May 12, 2017
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Devotions

Our Call to Follow

by Matthew J. Warfield
…articipate. In our proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we join hand-in-hand with Christ, in his mission of reconciling all things to the Father, through the work of the Holy Spirit, so that His kingdom might come, and His will might be done on earth as it is in heaven. Thus, in our call to follow Jesus, we are obligated to find the places that don’t look so promising, and (empowered by the Holy Spirit be people of the promise) we must be c…
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February 22, 2016
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What They Gave Away

by Partners Worldwide
…The Orchard View Market provides the residents of Vista Hermosa with basic-need commodities, and some of the workers’ older children have the opportunity to work at the market and learn business skills. The Vista Hermosa community also offers ESL and GED courses along with computer learning, summer camps, youth programs, parenting training, athletics, counseling services, women’s support groups, and WIC programs. To provide better care for their…
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February 24, 2018
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Peace with Graham

by Scott Culpepper
…is notion of a Graham-centric universe prompts a chuckle or two while also testifying to the reality of Graham’s massive spiritual and cultural influence. Most Reformed Christians of all stripes would be quick to say that Graham does not represent the center of their universe. Yet, we are fooling ourselves if we do not recognize the reality that the American religious landscape in which we operate was forever transformed, for better and sometimes…
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March 10, 2022
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Politics as a Creational Good: How Putting Up a Trampoline Led Me to Washington DC 

by Jason Lief
…igrants to political pawns with promises that are made but rarely kept. As common-sense policy changes fail, many immigrants are left to fend for themselves. To address this situation, we—the Christian community—must use our access to power, wealth, and influence to seek the flourishing of our neighbors. The prophet Jeremiah tells the people of Israel in exile, “But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lor…
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July 16, 2020
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Exploring the Legacy of Apollo: A Review of One Giant Leap

by Kayt Frisch
…ysis of the program’s legacy. Like most things in life, Apollo’s legacy is complicated. In One Giant Leap, Fishman’s reporter-style approach to uncovering the history of the program creates an interesting account of the work done by thousands of men and women to send a handful of men to the moon. While slightly nationalistic, his analysis addresses the positive parts of the Apollo legacy well, while skirting some of the more complicated parts. Ove…
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April 15, 2015
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Mental Illness and Your Child: Learning to Loosen and Receive

by Rachel Valentine
…ms at school or home • Aggression towards others • Threats to harm self • Rejecting or avoiding being touched or held • Unusual difficulty in soothing or consoling • Inability to comfort or calm self • Not turning to familiar adults for comfort Dig Deeper Join others for a free, one-hour webinar on “Youth, Depression and Suicide” on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 11:00 am CT. Presenters will discuss the issues of depression and suicide particular to…
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February 13, 2017
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Devotions

Commandments in Chief

by Abigail Rusert
Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 119:9-16 Exodus 20:1-21 James 1:2-8 I have heard that you are never allowed to write on the walls of dorm rooms. At least, those were the rules in my time. But rules were made to be broken, right? Placing things on walls—paintings, words, snapshots of a story—has never been a gift of mine. If you were to walk into my house or office today, you’d notice that most of the walls are bare. (I tell people I’m too busy living…
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January 19, 2022
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Culture

Sabbath Practice

by Jackson Nickolay
…, people are exhausted and desperate for rest. Everyone is moving at a nine-to-five pace, manically gripping the edges of their steering wheels as they pull through the drive-through at Starbucks, thirsting for rest but settling for a caffeinated divorce from the body’s tiredness. Would not God’s Sabbath rest speak to this society’s exhausted souls?   One of the unforeseen, yet exciting outcomes was that people began to find out that I have a sabb…
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November 21, 2016
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The Master Narrative: The Popular, but Problematic Memory of the Civil Rights Movement

by Jemar Tisby
…es-long tension between authorities and black people. We must see the cause-and-effect dynamic between legalized segregation during Jim Crow, and current residential segregation. Above all, we must realize that because of total depravity, a sin like racism never disappears. It simply evolves into subtler, more nefarious forms. Reconciliation only happens in the context of truth. We can be thankful for the work of many people, especially historians…
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October 5, 2015
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My Service Conversion

by Aaron Baart
…Service pulls us outside of ourselves. We are all inherently selfish, self-interested, self-obsessed. Serving the others begins to free us from the prison of self-interest. It teaches me that I don’t just do good for the purpose of changing the world around me; I also do good because it changes me. And I need to be changed. I need a Savior and I need to be changed by the other. Service cultivates humility and it is more reciprocal than we could h…
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January 31, 2019
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Longing for Spring: Songs of Lament

by John MacInnis
…he hope of God’s presence with us in suffering—like light breaking through clouds. The clouds do not completely dissipate, though; God gives strength to “live leaning in when the pain is fierce.” For “Lover of My Soul,” comfort is taken in the fact that, though forgiveness is hard for us to give when wronged, we remain loved by God, who “always knows what is best for me.” Indeed, God’s love often manifests in the kindness of others. In “Kindness,”…
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July 6, 2022
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The Church and Disability Justice: A Review of My Body Is Not a Prayer Request

by Kathleen Van Tol
…ess for persons with disabilities, religious institutions were exempt from compliance as a result of protests by Christian leaders. Kenny says, “The erasure of disability in church spaces was deliberately manufactured because disabled people were (and still are) considered too pricey and profane to include. Knowing that houses of worship argued that including my body is offensive to their religious liberty will aways sting.”3 Often people with dis…
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January 29, 2019
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Growing Where You Are Planted: A Review of Them

by Abby Foreman
…and our affections warp. We have been willing to accept cheap, distant anti-tribes when, in reality, only hard-built tribes of blood, sweat, and tears can fulfill us” (130). Throughout his book, Sasse uses academic studies, data, personal experiences, and stories to tell an engaging and ultimately convincing argument about the problems we are facing and the importance of intentional engagement in community. Sasse, a sitting Senator from Nebraska,…
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September 27, 2017
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Devotions

Be Like a Child

by David Tassell
Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 106:1-12 Isaiah 41:1-13 Matthew 18:1-5 Matthew 18:1-5 (NRSV) At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” 2 He called a child, whom he put among them, 3 and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 Whoever welc…
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June 20, 2016
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Devotions

Miracles and Superheroes

by Howard Schaap
…ion. So after this very public calling out, he takes the men “indoors” and tests their faith privately by asking, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” Faith has been important to the miracles in this chapter of Matthew. When Jesus sees the faith of the paralytic’s friends (vs. 2), he forgives the man’s sins; when the woman in the crowd touches his cloak, he tells her “your faith has healed you” (vs. 22). Only the mourners laugh at his asser…
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March 21, 2019
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Missionary Boot Camp

by Brandon Jones
…ir family day of the week, so they never attended a local church. My father-in-law says, “most missionaries will know within their first two years whether they can make it or not, but they will stay ten years just to save face.” I have not yet made it two years, so I suppose the jury is still out on me. Although I cannot deny that youthful romance to be a missionary first led me to Bible college at the age of eighteen, it did not bring me to the m…
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May 10, 2017
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I’ve Been Going to Yoga on Mondays

by Caleb Schut
…exercises help. Yoga has been helping, too. The first fifteen minutes is no-bake-cookies-simple. I am holding all the poses. I am feeling good about having gone to yoga. I feel a stretch in my back that I know will pay dividends. Two things make the next 30 minutes difficult. The first is physical. Yoga is a frustrating blend of endurance, stretching, and balance. Soon, the stretches I felt good about are burning through muscle fibers like cheap c…
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September 2, 2015
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The Proliferation of Life

by Aaron Baart
…g” (Luke 4:16-20). Jesus understood his earthly arrival to mean the putting-back-together-again of people, the way God had intended them to flourish. He stated it so clearly in John 10:10 when he said, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” Not just life; life to the full. Life restored from every hurt, loss, and sickness that sin had stolen from God’s dearly loved creati…
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February 16, 2017
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Devotions

God’s Call to Social Justice

by Amber Maples
Daily Scripture Texts Psalm 119:33-40 Exodus 22:21-27 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1 For today’s devotion, I simply invite you to wonder with me, for I realize that this is about all that I can do. With uncertainty, I prayerfully enter into discussing a subject that incites both anxiety and fervid sentiment in our current social climate. This topic is social justice, and I must admit that in facing the influence of a myriad of positions, it is usually…
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