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A La Carte (October 29)

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Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse – Here’s an important new resource you may (should?) want to consider.

Superheroes, Heresies and the God-man – I quite enjoyed this video about Jesus’ humanity and divinity.

What Is Reformation Day All About? – ‘Tis the time of year for Reformation Day articles.

Joining Hands with Rome – And on the same topic, here’s when Christians will know they can now join hands with Rome.

Hadfield’s Best Photos – Astronaut Chris Hadfield took 45,000 photos from space; here are some of the best ones.

Not a Christian? – Does the church have authority to say a person is not a Christian? Here are some brief answers.

Wragg

You can work your way to heaven, but only for your sentencing at the court of divine judgment.

—Jerry Wragg

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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.

  • Remember

    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…