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Alternative Facts on Church Growth

A Response to Scott MacDougall On November 30, House of Deputies theologian Scott MacDougall published “The Church Is Not Dying, It Is Changing: A Message...

 On Doubt and Belief

By Jordan Hillebert The Church is not always great at dealing with doubt. We tend to swing between two extremes. On the one hand, there are...

The Problems of Hagiography

By Zachary Guiliano The Christian Church has no shortage of saints. This may come as some surprise to many, who associate the Church primarily with...

The Ninth Commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor”

Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. The Bible does not condone lying. Or does it? On the one hand, when lying is considered in the abstract,...

The Eighth Commandment: Theft for a Good Cause?

Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Neil Dhingra In Alex Gibney’s The Inventor, a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the turtlenecked and deep-voiced founder and...

Truth-telling in a transparent world

Authenticity is an amendment of your life such that the opinions of others cease to define your self-valuation and identity.

Reflection on the Psalms

W. David O. Taylor provides resources for readers inspired by Bono and Eugene Peterson’s video discussion.

A forensic experience

During the week Lent began, I was summoned to the county courthouse as a candidate for a jury, but I wondered what it would be like to be in the defendant’s chair.

Embracing the awkward

Completion of a comedy improvisation class ought to be a graduation requirement for seminarians.

Advent gumbo

The work of preparation involves paring or trimming things out of our lives, like using a paring knife to trim the vegetables and cut away the fat from the chicken in a gumbo.

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