Maria Shingi woke up one morning a decade ago with body aches. Then friends noticed she had gained weight and advised her to get a pregnancy test. Shingi, then 30, stopped at the pharmacy on her way home from her administrative job at the Nigerian embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, to buy one. Fear gripped her Read more…
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In one of his dark epistles, the devil Screwtape tells his nephew Wormwood that Satan has managed to deceive humanity by convincing scholars to adopt the “Historical Point of View.” “The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question Read more…
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At the March for Life event Friday in Washington, DC, the largest annual gathering of pro-lifers, it may have seemed that all was well in the pro-life movement. Despite the brisk January weather and the threat of a polar storm barreling toward the region, tens of thousands gathered from all over the country in the Read more…
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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. A reader of my newsletter asked me if he might be going to hell. Actually, the reader’s question was quite a bit more nuanced. He’s a Christian, a committed follower of Jesus. He’s also suffering from a debilitating, painful, and slowly terminal disease. Let’s call him Max. Read more…
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My husband and I moved into a low-ceilinged basement apartment on a snowy day in January. The landlord was related to a prominent Nigerian poet, which boded well for our literary future, I thought. Combining our books into a single collection was one of the first tasks of our young marriage. I was unpacking a Read more…
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I would just like to point out,” said Sara Jacobs, a California Democrat speaking from the House floor, “that I think it’s very interesting that my colleague from South Carolina [Rep. Nancy Mace] is so obsessed with the issue of trans people—using horrible slurs to talk about them—when many people in this body have received Read more…
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When I was in grad school eight years ago, YouTube’s algorithm recommended I watch pastor Mike Todd’s sermon series on relationships, aptly called Relationship Goals. I hadn’t heard of Todd before, and at that point not a lot of other people had either. He was a young pastor shepherding Transformation Church, which was then a Read more…
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When I teach evangelical college students about the practicalities of Communion, I’ll often begin with the Last Supper, with Jesus and the disciples, because it raises some straightforward questions. I’ll ask them: Should we obey Jesus? Should we celebrate the meal as he instituted it? Should we do what he said? Should we use what Read more…
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