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Researchers who scan brains for a living have spent the last two decades doing something that makes both scientists and theologians uncomfortable: watching what happens inside your skull when you pray.

The results haven’t been kind to simple narratives. Neuroscience hasn’t debunked faith. It hasn’t confirmed it either. What it’s done is considerably stranger — it’s sta...

If you work in a city and walk the streets each morning on your commute, it’s likely you’re going to see at least one cardboard sign scribbled with Sharpie, an old coffee cup to collect spare change or a hopeless blank stare asking you for help.

Perhaps you’ve been taught to ignore these people because they’re allegedly only going to use your hard-earned cash to fuel ...

Among the boxes we tend to build for God—the various extents to which we believe or predict He will act—is the box that confines Him to responding to us the same way others do. We often limit our expectations of Him to what we’ve experienced within our human interactions.

We’ve learned, for example, that not everybody who says we should get together for lunch sometime ...

Every so often, Christian culture leaves behind an artifact so strange, so sincere and so fully committed to its own questionable instincts that it deserves to be studied like ancient pottery or unexplained lights in the sky. Carman’s hip-hop era belongs firmly in that category.

For anyone who (unfortunately) missed the Carman phenomenon, some context helps. Carman Lic...

Something strange is happening in American Christianity right now: People are coming back to church while other people are still quietly leaving it.

For years, the dominant story was decline. Younger adults were deconstructing, drifting or deciding Sunday morning had better uses than fluorescent lobby coffee and another round of vaguely stressful small talk. Much of th...