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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Arthur Guinness founded the Guinness Brewing Co. in 1755. He learned the art of brewing from his father and succeeded in establising a flourishing company.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Robert George and Hamza Yusuf argue against the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s claim that religious exemptions made for the sake of religious freedom are actually unconstitutionally...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Elizabeth Fry was a British Quaker Christian who led the movement for prison reform in the 19th century. She was also the driving force behind reform legislation.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
In Rob Bowman’s review of Bart Ehrman’s new book, How Jesus Became God, he enumerates the many points of agreement evangelicals have with Ehrman.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Businesses, be honest about the views you’re for and the views you reject, the people you’ll tolerate and the people you’ll require to fully recant their views or face the consequences. But let’s...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It’s not unreasonable or bigoted to treat the unique joining of sexually complementary partners uniquely. But in order to see that this is a reasonable understanding that isn’t motivated by hate,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that American Christians should retreat from the same-sex marriage issue because it’s unwinnable for them.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Andreas Köstenberger and Justin Taylor wrote about “Five Errors to Drop from Your Easter Sermon” in Christianity Today. Here’s a summary.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Many of the values our culture takes for granted came to us through Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
If you listen for it, you’ll hear it—people using words as ideological tools to paint emotional images rather than to communicate objective truth. Should we, as Christians, change our style to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
New evidence regarding the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” fragment has come to light that may once again point to forgery.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Alan addresses the following claim: Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
George Cuvier launched modern vertebrate paleontology. He originated the major classification of living things based on the nervous system: Vertebrata, Articulata, Mollusca, and Radiata.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
“The days of comfortable and acceptable Christianity are now over,” said Robert George.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
The decision of the Rev. Juan M. Solana to build a retreat center in Galilee has led to an interesting archaeological find: “the presumed hometown of Mary Magdalene and an ancient synagogue where...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
You’re probably interested in ideas—learning them, examining them, explaining them, and passing them on. Since this worthy passion has its own particular dangers and pitfalls, here are some...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Thomas Helwys was one of the early Puritans in 17th century England. He and his fellow Protestant believers met in secret to avoid punishment for dissenting with the state religion.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Joe Rigney says, “The person of great sacrifice must be the person of little sacrifices.” Now is the time to practice dying by His power, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
There’s no consistent reason under the new definition of marriage why polyamorists should be denied what’s legally available to others.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I heard a news story on the radio Sunday that the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., had a transgender clergy officiate at their Sunday service for the first time.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Here’s some good (albeit difficult) advice from N.D. Wilson’s article “Called to Be Uncool Christians.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn played a major role in the collapse of the Soviet Union more than two decades ago.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
John Witherspoon was born in Scotland in 1723 and emigrated to the colony of New Jersey when he was called as president of Princeton University in 1768.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
The Supreme Court’s decision on the Hobby Lobby case upholding the First Amendment protection of religious expression (and conscience) is eliciting some odd complaints from those who are unhappy...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
The response to the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision is troubling.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Cadbury Chocolate was founded by a Quaker, John Cadbury, who has a strong sense of social responsibility motivated by his Christian convictions.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Titus Salt was a contemporary of of John Cadbury, whom I wrote about last Thursday, and there are similarities in their stories.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
You may be familiar with Wedgwood pottery. One of the most distinct of Josiah Wedgwood’s designs is jasper ware—most commonly with blue or green glaze with classic figures applied in white. He was...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Even when the current set of beliefs held by atheists prevent them from seeing any argument for God’s existence as plausible, those arguments still have an effect on our culture.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
What is marriage, why does it matter, and what are the consequences of redefining it? Ryan Anderson explains.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Gallaudet University, the first university in the United States focusing on educating deaf people, was named in honor of the founder’s father, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
There’s a great temptation to get frustrated with the people in your church as you learn theology and apologetics, but this is a spiritually dangerous misunderstanding of how the body of Christ was...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
You remember William Penn from history class. He was granted the colony of Pennsylvania by the king in payment for debts owed his father.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The claim that “atheists are as moral as Christians” is meaningless if we’re operating under different systems of morality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
David Brooks’s op-ed in the New York Times on “The Mental Virtues” reminds us that “character tests are pervasive even in modern everyday life. It’s possible to be heroic if you’re just...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Your work, whatever it is, is your opportunity to glorify God by serving others.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
In reply to the critics who claim Christianity was just a copy-cat religion among the ancient religions, it’s helpful to take a look at how an ancient adherent of these pagan religions viewed...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s requirement that leaders in their campus clubs be Christian has been declared unacceptable discrimination by the Cal State University system.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Alan gives a short recap of his trip to Beirut, Lebanon. He highlights the experiences of training the persecuted church and meeting his cousin who recently fled Baghdad, Iraq.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Thomas Sydenham, born in 1624, was a Christian physician known as the father of English medicine.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Richard of Wallingford lived in the early 14th century...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Here’s what Tim Keller had to say about turning your theology into communion with God through biblical meditation and prayer.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Angie Mosteller says, “There is no indication that ancient Samhain was ever a festival of the dead or dedicated to some Lord of the Dead.”
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, was a remarkable woman in her time. She was born in 1707 to aristocracy, suffered loss, family disputes, and bad health.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Even though it’s questionable how much of it is true, I still love the stories about the real St. Nicholas. Here’s what Fred Sanders had to say about him.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
If you know someone you think is beyond God’s ability to save, watch this story of how David Wood became a Christian, and have hope.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
If you or someone you know drifted out of Christianity by way of the Emergent Church movement, listen to what Matt Rawlings discovered that brought him back.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Humans are more valuable than animals and so eating meat is permissible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Reasonable Faith has released another apologetics video, and this one explains the moral argument for the existence of God.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Since the Crusades are back in the news, these excerpts from a 2005 article by Crusade historian Thomas F. Madden will help you brush up on the basics.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Alan answers the question of whether people who eat meat are unjustly discriminating against sentient animals.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
In an article in The Week, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry addresses the popular understanding “that social change driven by appeals to science and reason is (a) good and (b) irreversible.”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Here’s what J. Warner Wallace has to say about the charge that Christians are too biased to fairly evaluate evidence.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
A doctor in Michigan wrongly refused to take a lesbian couple’s baby as a patient. This is simply a misunderstanding and misapplication of the conscience rights people have been fighting for.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
How can you become an apologetics speaker? Here’s some advice on getting started.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
The number of things you’ll be called a “bigot” for not endorsing will only increase, and possibly even in your own church. Are you ready?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Nancy Pearcey has the unique ability of getting to the heart of things in the cultural conversation, and her penetrating critique of the worldview “idols” of our age is chock-full of gems.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
The kind of response we’re seeing from people who oppose Indiana’s RFRA proves just how much we need these laws if we’re to continue to function as a diverse society.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Christians do not want to “refuse service to gay people.” There’s an important distinction between refusing to serve individuals and refusing to participate in events.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Mere Orthodoxy’s Matt Anderson explains why “an anti-liberal approach toward dissenting views is part of the DNA of the logic of the current gay rights argument.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Alan explains one way homeschooling parents can avoid sheltering their kids too much.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Since secular philosophies, like religions, point to an ultimate reality, they can be evaluated, just as religions can, by identifying their idols.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The third of Nancy Pearcey’s five principles for evaluating worldviews is, “Test the idol: Does it contradict what we know about the world?”
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
There are many ideas we simply take for granted as natural and obvious, when in fact they didn’t exist until the arrival of Christianity changed things completely.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Nancy Pearcey explains how to find where a worldview contradicts itself.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Some Christians think the way to avoid being “conformed to this world” (Rom. 12:2) is by avoiding “worldly” ideas. A better strategy is to learn the skills to critically evaluate them.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Any worldview that lacks the ability to explain what we know to be true—that there are objective moral facts, regardless of whether an individual or an entire society rejects them—is devastatingly...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Evidence that literary manuscripts in the ancient world would last hundreds of years suggests that some of the earliest New Testament copies we posses may have been copied directly from one of...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Remember when I talked about our culture biting absurd bullets? Here’s how it works.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
I believe parents are responsible for their children’s spiritual training. Of course, pastors, youth leaders, and Sunday school teachers can help. But parents have to do most of the work.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
In a happy turn of events, InterVarsity has announced they’ll be allowed back on CSU campuses without having to compromise their commitment to having Christians lead their Christian groups on campus.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
God isn’t surprised by this ruling, and by His sovereign will He’s allowed this to happen. And He’s put us here in this time for a purpose.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
The Supreme Court decision yesterday won’t just affect marriage. Giving the government the power to redefine a pre-political institution changes the relationship of the government to all of our...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Most people—religious or otherwise—have no idea what marriage is, why it exists, and what we need it for, and it’s dangerous to fundamentally change things when you don’t understand why...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
More disturbing than the fact that a new definition of marriage is now the law of the land is the way in which this transformation was accomplished.
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