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A La Carte (April 4)

Beneath The Evangelical Earthquake

Paul Carter writes about the word “evangelical” and our increasing reticence to be described that way.

The Intelligent Life of the City Raccoon

Well isn’t this fascinating: city raccoons are smarter than country raccoons because they have to reason their way through more complex challenges.

18 Things to Pray for Your Church

Jonathan Leeman provides 18 different things you can pray for your church.

Love Ain’t Easy

I’m looking forward to this series from Melissa Edgington as she discusses some of the difficult parts of marriage. The first part gets the series off to a good start.

Writing Advice

David Qaoud has collected writing tips from 5 of today’s most influential Christian writers.

This Day in 1968. 48 years ago today, civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. *

The First 12 Hours

This is an interesting timeline and article from the New York Times as they tell how they responded in the first 12 hours after the recent bombings in Brussels.

The Omni-Directional Blessing of Bible Reading

Jemar Tisby shows that the simple discipline of reading and knowing your Bible works itself out in your life in many different ways.

Brooks

A preacher’s life should be a commentary of his doctrine; his practice should be a counterpart of his sermons.

—Thomas Brooks

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    Truths That Take on the World

    Christianity has a long history with catechisms—summaries of key doctrines that are arranged in a question-and-answer format. Traditionally, Presbyterians would be taught The Shorter Catechism, Dutch Reformed believers The Heidelberg Catechism, and Baptists one of the Baptist equivalents. Sadly, the use of catechisms began to decline as the years went by, so that it became…

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    A La Carte (January 16)

    A La Carte: Business meetings at the urinal / Ambition and competition / The loneliness crisis / Better than feeling seen / Exhausted and overwhelmed / Kindle deals / and more.

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    A La Carte (January 15)

    A La Carte: Young people are turning to the Bible / What conservative young men need / Justifying self-gratification / The influence of reading / On boredom / and more.

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    It Doesn’t Matter What You Remember

    I have a memory like a … what do you call it? That thing in the kitchen you use to sift the stuff you want from the stuff you don’t. A sieve! That’s it. I have a memory like a sieve. I joke about it at times, and about how I have to outsource remembering…

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    A La Carte (January 14)

    A La Carte: Always being right / Sex advice for newlyweds / Making Christianity look good / Soul care / Stop straining for shortcuts / When writing feels like a chair / Rare Kindle deals / and more.

  • Post Woke

    Are We Post Woke?

    It is too early to tell, I think, whether the “wokeness” craze has already peaked and even begun to slip into decline, or whether it’s just pausing to gather energy for another surge. What seems clear for the moment, though, is that it has lost at least some of its initial momentum, probably because it…