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Killed at 31, Charlie Kirk promised to “play offense against the secular left” and renew America through confrontational debates on college campuses and online. |
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Lecrae was almost a part of the recent exodus from evangelicalism. He opens up about how he reconstructed his faith instead. |
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Christian leaders and legal experts respond to the national prayer initiative the White House launched on Monday. |
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A Duke researcher looks at the brief history of intelligent design in America, drawing from both theistic-evolutionist and evolutionary-creationist critiques. |
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From senior staff writer Emily Belz: One of my favorite podcasts is the BBC’s In Our Time, where the host Melvyn Bragg interviews academics about a particular subject like, say, Jupiter’s moons. At the end of every episode, a producer says, “And now we get some extra time with Melvyn and his guests,” and then follows a few minutes of thoughts the guests wanted to say but didn’t. |
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In that spirit, I wanted to share some extra bits from my interview with pastor Mika Edmondson about how to pray for our country: |
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“This call from 1 Timothy is a call to petition the Lord to help the nation become the best version of itself.” |
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“The Bible is full of all kinds of prayers. The Bible also includes psalms of lament and also imprecatory psalms. The imprecatory psalms are opportunities for us to ask God to pray for deliverance and for oppressors and those who work in injustice to be stopped. They’re also cathartic experiences, where we get to take our righteous anger and sadness and confusion and pour it out to the Lord so that we won’t pour it out on other people.” |
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“It gives us the opportunity to be more peacemaking in our dealings with people. … God is saying, Say these words to me so you don’t meet your enemy on the street and say it with your fist.” |
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“My sophomore in college—there are prayers I have prayed. … Lord don’t let her do this, this, and this. That’s a legitimate prayer of love. We can pray for that like our government.” |
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Today in Christian History |
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September 12, 1729: John W. Fletcher, early Methodist theologian, is born. During the Calvinism-Arminianism controversy within Methodisism in the mid-eighteenth century, Fletcher became the chief defender of evangelical Arminianism. John Wesley hoped Fletcher would be his successor, but Fletcher died six years before Wesley (see issue 2: John Wesley and issue 69: Charles and John Wesley). |
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Christians and politicians called for prayer after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot Wednesday afternoon. Within hours, they learned Kirk, the 31-year-old executive director of Turning Point USA, had died,...
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I believe it. Images have the power to shape public opinion, even to shift history. In my work as a New York...
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If you want to quickly determine whether someone is the type to give out unsolicited medical advice, tell the person that over the past year you've received more Botox injections...
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A few weeks ago, the morning after some squabble I now can't recall, my eldest daughter and I were alone in the car. A tense silence was still hanging heavy...
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The Christian story shows us that grace often comes from where we least expect. In this issue, we look at the corners of God’s kingdom and chronicle in often-overlooked people, places, and things the possibility of God’s redemptive work. We introduce the Compassion Awards, which report on seven nonprofits doing good work in their communities. We look at the spirituality underneath gambling, the ways contemporary Christian music was instrumental in one historian’s conversion, and the steady witness of what may be Wendell Berry’s last novel. All these pieces remind us that there is no person or place too small for God’s gracious and cataclysmic reversal. |
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