The Journey of Lent

Renewing Devotion and Returning to God
Lent has become an important season of the Christian calendar for believers of all kinds. Here we offer a variety of rich resources to inform and support your Lenten devotion.

Warren Throckmorton
The Behind the Scenes Mars Hill Global ManeuversOver a year after the last service was held at Mars Hill Church, there are still stories to be told.

Sticking the Corners
3 Ingredients for Parental Sanity in Kids' Competitive SportsIf watching your child play sports causes you to spew f-bombs, it's time for family counseling.

Glory Seed
Why We Need a Libertarian Study BibleOne of the things Revelation reveals is that there is something living in the entrails of human government — and it ain't pretty.

Dowsing for Divinity
The Devil Is In the DetailClaiming that Satanism is "just an inversion of Christianity" is an inadequate explanation of what it actually is.

Margin of Error
Why the Iranian Elections Were a Victory for the ReformistsIn a fairer election reformists would have won an absolute majority. These elections sent clear messages.

American Buddhist Perspectives
Mindfulness Dystopia: Pamela Anderson Gets "Connected"Many of us have this problem of reliance on a — generally profit-driven — technology for personal transformation and well-being.

The French Revolution
Stacey Dash's Oscar Cameo and Hollywood's Diversity Problem"That was awkward." That was the Twitter sentiment when Dash walked on as the new “Academy Director of Diversity Outreach.” This is what really happened.

Love Among the Ruins
How C.S. Lewis Used Aliens to Show Humanity's FailingsWould you baptize an extraterrestrial? Pope Francis answered this question. C.S. Lewis gives us a better answer.

Uncommon God, Common Good
Malala: Let Us Be Bold as LionsMalala's story inspired and challenged me as a man, as a father, as a Christian, as an American, and as a human being.

Faith Forward
Voting: A Call to Action for CongregationsVoting is liturgical. Our votes are forms of tithes or offerings that deserve blessing or dedication in worship.

Anxious Bench
Secularization or Religious Pluralism?For many decades, social scientists believed that modernization led ineluctably to secularization.

Love, Joy, Feminism
How I've Learned (and Unlearned) ParentingI learned to view parenting from an obedience-focused punitive mindset. I left my evangelical upbringing behind and that meant I had to reinvent parenting.

Heartfelt
The Problem with "Boys Will Be Boys"Our tendency in society has been to take a "boys will be boys" attitude, which has normalized violence against women and girls.

Raise the Horns
The Horned God Is Not As Old As You ThinkThe Devil has always been a complex piece of mythology, just as likely to serve as the mis-understood light-bringer as the root source of all evil.
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