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When I read Piper’s post, what I hear is something my Old Testament professor Walter Kaiser used to emphasize again and again: the task is to find the principle behind the text, not to drag the entire ancient world into ours. Kaiser called it principlizing, and it has shaped the way I read Scripture ever…
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AI didn’t replace my creativity — it expanded it. I didn’t go looking for AI; it quietly found its way into my work and made me better, faster, and more imaginative. Here’s the story of how I started using AI, what it’s changed in my life, and why I believe ethical, thoughtful technology can help…
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A hospital visit becomes a quiet meditation on family, faith, and resilience. Through Evelyn and Daniel’s story, a chaplain reflects on caregiving, cultural warmth, and the enduring power of love. (Names changed for privacy.)
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There are seasons when conversations about faith drift toward commandments, special days, and dietary boundaries. I understand the appeal. Structure feels safe. Obedience feels noble. And there is something comforting about doing things “the right way.” But whenever I hear these conversations, I find myself returning to Romans 8:1–11 — a passage where Paul gently…
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I believe — not because the alternative frightens me, but because this is where the evidence and my own limits lead me.
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For much of my Christian & Missionary journey, I learned to measure my faith by discipline — how consistent, how devoted, how “good” I was at the practices that were supposed to shape me. But somewhere along the way, discipline became performance, and performance became pressure. And pressure has a way of making us forget…
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There are few things more enduring in the life of the church than a good sermon illustration. They travel lightly, lodge deeply, and—if we are not careful—calcify into “facts.” Every Easter, one such illustration resurfaces with the reliability of the liturgical calendar: the claim that Jesus’ final cry from the cross, tetelestai (“It is finished”),…
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On a gray Saturday morning, it struck me with unsettling clarity: when Christians romanticize a nation‑state and excuse violence in its name, something sacred is lost. This is a call back to the gospel that tears down walls rather than builds them.
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There are women in this country whose names should be spoken with reverence — not because they sought controversy, but because they suffered and died under laws passed by people who claimed to be defending God. Their stories are not political talking points. They are human lives, cut short or scarred forever by legislation shaped…
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If anything, the real misconception is the idea that myths are obsolete. They’re not. They’ve simply changed shape.
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Some days, the desert is a hush—a pale blue bowl of sky,air so tender it feels borrowed,and the sun, newly awake,warming the world as if by accident. Other days, it stirs—clouds drifting in like slow‑moving thoughts,rain offering its brief, silver whisper,and the wind, when it rises,carrying the faint perfume of beginnings. I live between these…
