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What Christians Miss When They Dismiss Imagination

What Christians Miss When They Dismiss Imagination

Understanding God and our world needs more than bare reason and experience.

Douglas Estes

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Review
Reason and Logic Belong to God. So Do Imagination and Myth.
A new book explores what C. S. Lewis believed about the multileveled nature of reality.

Louis Markos
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AJ Sherrill: The Importance of Imagination
The church should empower curiosity and foster imagination...but does it?
Father's Day
The Last Gift My Father Gave Me
A surprising encounter with my dad, Jesus, and Jerry Seinfeld opened a door to long-awaited healing.

Michael Cosper
Review
It’s Never Too Late to Forgive a Flawed Father—or to Ask How He Got His Scars
What an attention-starved son learned while reconstructing the life of his distant dad.

Chad C. Ashby

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Books

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Defiant Joy: Find the Hope to Light Your Way, Even in the Darkness
Jennifer Michelle Greenberg
Review
Songs I Love to Sing: The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship
Edith L. Blumhofer
Review
Hope for God's Creation: Stewardship in an Age of Futility
Andrew J. Spencer
Review
Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling
Nijay K. Gupta
Review
Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness
Darrell L. Whiteman
Review
The Pastor as Apologist: Restoring Apologetics to the Local Church
Michael McEwen; Dayton Hartman

Goodbye Postmodernism, Hello Metamodernism

Goodbye Postmodernism, Hello Metamodernism

Our apologetics must evolve to engage with the new cultural mood of the next generations.

Benjamin Vincent

Trash Problem Pushes Pastor to Action

Trash Problem Pushes Pastor to Action

A Honduran church leads the way in local garbage collection while praying for an international plastics treaty.

Adam MacInnis

Hillsong Abuse Settlement Rejected Over NDA

Hillsong Abuse Settlement Rejected Over NDA

Victim says she wants accountability more than money.

Daniel Silliman

Conservative Methodists, Unite

Conservative Methodists, Unite

After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.

W. James Antle III

The Anxious Church

The Anxious Church

Why the church has struggled to address mental illness well and how we can care better.

J. D. Peabody

In Search of Most Beautiful Language, Scholars Turn to ‘Jesus’ Film

In Search of Most Beautiful Language, Scholars Turn to ‘Jesus’ Film

And other brief news from Christians around the world.

Daniel Silliman

Particular Wrongs Need Particular Remedies

Particular Wrongs Need Particular Remedies

Every sin requires Christ’s atonement. But the Bible shows God punishing—and repairing—different sins differently.

Myles Werntz

Was Paul a Slave?

Was Paul a Slave?

The surprising argument that Saul of Tarsus was born into bondage.

Mark R. Fairchild and Jordan K. Monson

I Wanted a Bigger God Than My Hindu Guru Offered

I Wanted a Bigger God Than My Hindu Guru Offered

As my doubts about his teachings grew, so did a secret fascination with Jesus.

Rahil Patel

Heaven Isn’t Our Eternal Escape from Work

Beginning of Wisdom

Heaven Isn’t Our Eternal Escape from Work

Only on our best days do we get a glimpse of the joyful labor to come.

Jen Wilkin

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