Mere Orthodoxy

According to Lifeway Research, up to half of US Protestant pastors say they “frequently hear members of their congregation repeating conspiracy theories they have heard.” It is tempti...

It has become common to look back on our cultural and historical heroes, today, and wonder if we ever really understood them or knew them at all. When evaluating our heroes, we consistently choose a deconstructive lens: Nolan’s Odysseus, Tom King’s Batman, or the hit show The Boys. Heroes lay on a cold metal slab, dissected and rearranged to our liking. We take apart...

One of the most astonishing descriptions of pastoral ministry in Holy Scripture focuses upon the sense of smell:

I sometimes think about what my childhood and teenage years would have been like if I had the same kind of technology available to me that my preteen children now have available to them. I doubt it would have gone well. I learned from an early age the kind of permissions I could get by labeling myself “introverted.” Even without broadband internet, I played the bookish loner....

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus talks often about the heart. He warns against being clean on the outside, while harboring inward sin. It’s fitting for Christians to share this concern. However, at times our well-intentioned focus on “the heart” has heralded a kind of dualism, causing us to separate our spiritual and physical selves in a way God never intended.

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