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Christ and Pop Culture

Moore, Oklahoma Needs Prayer and Help Right Now, Not Our Theological Pontifications

The best thing Job's comforters did for him was to tear their clothes and sit silent for seven days.

Evangelical Channel

What Does a Generous Church Look Like?

Generosity is not about how much money you give.  It's about much more than that. It's about living a life of Christ-like self-giving.

Cranach

Tornado destroys Moore, OK. Again.

I know two families in Moore, relatives by marriage of my wife.  We got word that both of them lost their homes.

Eidos

Dear God: Facing Tragedy

You are love and if I can stop my moaning and look for You, if You come, then there is still pain, sorrow, and crying, but there is also You.

Tinsel

Holly Tucker Sings Hymn on "The Voice" Comforting After Oklahoma Tornado

With families tearing through rubble to find missing loved ones, the reminder of God's faithfulness felt like what we needed.

Joel J. Miller

Egyptian Christians weather 'climate of impunity,' says US State Dept.

The meager gains hardly diminish the unimaginable threats regularly faced by believers in one of the world's oldest bodies of Christians.

Thin Places

How I Make Sense of My Life

If there is a God, only Christ's death can begin to make sense of the pain in this world.

Karen Spears Zacharias

The Question of Crowd-Sourcing: Why Kickstarter Troubles Me

It' s not that I don't value the need to raise money for projects, it's the absence of the personal relationship that bothers me.

Born to Reform

Spitting into the Sky

It is one thing to have grief but altogether different to accuse God and place ourselves in judgment over Him.

Roger E. Olson

Where the Devil is Satan (in Contemporary Christianity)?

Belief in a literal Satan and demons seems guaranteed to bring scorn from sophisticated people living under the influence of the Enlightenment.

The Anxious Bench

Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

In his book Allah, A Christian Response, Volf offers a thoughtful - if ultimately too uncritical - examination of the identity of the God, or gods, of Muslims and Christians.

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