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The reign of Christ represents the ultimate standard of truth, justice, and righteousness. However, worldviews have emerged ...

Gotta Serve Somebody” begins Bob Dylan’s first Christian album Slow Train Coming. And it shares the purposeful intent of his ...

Baptism does what nothing else can. As Martin Luther said, by baptism “we are made holy and are saved, which no other kind of ...

President Donald Trump and his supporters often ground their anti-trans actions in “religious freedom” for Christians.

Christian Science reading rooms are not churches — although they are run by one — and they’re not affiliated with ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

When applied to the Bible it doesn’t take long to see that his “has God said?” (Gen. 3:1) thinking, now at work in the Church ...

Loyal readers might recall “ Vol. 126: What the Bible Says About Burnt Offerings,” published in 2022. That study was prompted ...

The American people elected Trump for president. We did not choose Musk as co-president whose proven disdain for federal workers may pale in comparison to his dislike for Social Security, ...

Sometimes when we find ourselves struggling or fighting long, drawn-out personal battles, it s difficult to have hope How do ...