At 1:30 a.m. on July 26, Sergey Vivchar heard his city’s air-raid siren and jumped out of bed. He knew he had less than three minutes to find a safer location before Russian missiles hit. He went to the corner of his bathroom, away from the windows, and sat down. He got on his phone Read more…
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One day a student approached me after class with an urgent question. The course was on the doctrine of the church, and we’d spent a few weeks on Abraham, Israel, and the law of Moses. Some years back, my student’s family left a mainstream congregation to found a house church which sought to be more Read more…
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A Native American–directed documentary, Sugarcane, made history earlier this year when it earned a nomination for an Academy Award. Codirected by Julian Brave NoiseCat (Secwepemc Nation) and Emily Kassie, the film investigates the abuses against and disappearances of Indigenous children at Saint Joseph’s Mission Indian Residential School in British Columbia—and also delves into the traumatic Read more…
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New restrictions on campus speech in Texas have spurred a lawsuit from a coalition of student groups, including a Dallas ministry concerned about the impact on Bible studies, worship nights, and evangelism on campus. The Campus Protection Act bans First Amendment–protected speech or expressive conduct between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. and prohibits using amplified Read more…
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When students in my Old Testament courses contrast the allegedly messy world of the first testament with the allegedly simple, straightforward teachings of Jesus, I know for sure they haven’t read the New Testament lately. When we read the Gospels, not least Jesus’ parables, we discover him saying all sorts of bizarre, borderline offensive things. Read more…
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This is an article about penal substitutionary atonement, or PSA. I’d like to attempt the herculean feat of discussing PSA without slander, rancor, or resort to a straw man. I leave it to you, dear reader, to judge whether I succeed. Speaking of impossible tasks, I’m also going to avoid adjudicating the merits and demerits Read more…
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In the past 30 years, Robert Clements’ daily column, Bob’s Banter, has appeared in more than 60 newspapers and magazines, most of them in India but also in countries like the UK, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the United Arab Emirates. His articles, which are translated into Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi, reach an estimated 6 million Read more…
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Here are edited excerpts of a conversation between Russell Moore and Mike Cosper on CT’s The Bulletin podcast. Mike Cosper: Look, his murder has really bothered me. If you’re a dad—I don’t care how you feel about Charlie Kirk—look back on the days of your life, the days of your marriage, when your kids were Read more…
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