Christianity Today took a moment in 1958 to reassess the repeal of prohibition after 25 years. Was the relegalization of alcohol good for America? Or had the teetotal Christians and fundamentalist moral crusaders of the 1920s been right to try to ban beer and liquor? Alcohol industry leaders didn’t think there was any question that Read more…
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For the past few months, the US job market has been showing signs of weakness. Erratic economic policies coming out of Washington make businesses skittish to hire new workers. Federal workforce cuts, the immigration crackdown, and higher interest rates are also contributing to the slowdown, according to economists. In the past two years, the general Read more…
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The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain’s prize-winning popular science book about neurology
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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