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By Herman Bavinck
We are seeing a universal pursuit of equality, a yearning to eliminate all distinction based on birth or property and not on personal value, a strong push for independence and freedom. In church and state, in family and society, in vocation and business, each person wants to see their own rights defined, wants to cast their own…
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By Jordan Ballor
On August 12, 1943, months after having been arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned, the Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote to his young fiancée, Maria von Wedemeyer:
When I consider the state of the world, the total obscurity enshrouding our personal destiny, and my present imprisonment, our union — if it…
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By Charlie Self
Christian mission, spirituality, and theology have been navigating between isolated individualism and coercive collectivism from the third century to the present.
Both the Old and New Testaments confirm the necessity of personal faith and repentance toward the Lord as a condition of divine favor and ultimate salvation. Yet an…
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By Joseph Sunde
True justice begins with seeing and believing in the dignity of every human person. It begins with recognizing God’s image in each of our neighbors, and it proceeds with service that corresponds to this transcendent truth.
When distortions manifest, the destruction will vary. But it always begins with a failure to rightly relate…
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By John Bolt
In common usage, the two questions “What are you going to be when you grow up?” and “What are you going to do when you grow up?” are practically interchangeable. Yet, there is a significant difference between them.
The second one is functional and utilitarian; implied in the question is another question: “What job are you going to…
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By Joseph Sunde
We are strangers in a strange land, and yet we are meant to make something of the world. How can this be, and what might it mean?
Christians have long struggled with the tension, and in his famous work, Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton writes of his own struggles. Recalling his initial encounter with Christianity, Chesterton admits to…
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