I want to commend to you this episode of the Ministry Network Podcast (whether or not you’re in ministry). It’s about prayer and I found it encouraging, challenging, and endearingly eclectic.

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(Yesterday on the blog: New Religions for a Godless World)

Three(ish) Views of Contraception

This article at Reformation21 explains the most common Christian perspectives on contraception and arrives at an important principle.

Cuties and Cognitive Dissonance

I think Samuel James is on to something here. “Everywhere I look I see evidence of people whose deepest moral intuitions are negative. They don’t know what they believe, but they definitely know who their enemy is. They don’t have a vision of human flourishing, but they can finger the people who will enslave us all. This is deeper and worse than polarization.”

Good and Evil in the Lord of the Rings

Keith Mathison has been writing some really interesting articles about The Lord of the Rings. In this one he looks at its concepts of good and evil.

C.s. Lewis’s Apologetics: A Reformed Assessment

Meanwhile, writing for Reformed Perspective, Wes Bredenhof offers, well, a reformed perspective on the apologetics of


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