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Stop Blaming COVID - Commonplaces

A story from RNS: For the first time since 2018, thousands of college students will gather a few days after Christmas to talk about God’s mission to the world and their place in it. Organizers of Urbana 2022, a missions […]

Ian Harber and Patrick MillerFeaturedChurchFormation

My AI Spiritual Director

After years working as a doctor in a hospital, a friend shared the most frustrating part of her job: patients whose online, amateur medical research weighs more heavily in their decision making than her professional opinion. She ended with a […]

Cole HartinFeaturedChurch

The Hollowness of the Mainline, Now and Then - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Douglas J. Brouwer Chasing After Wind: A Pastor’s Life. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022. 238 pp. $22.00 It’s no secret that Western Christianity is in decline. And this is nowhere more evident than in the once venerable churches of the mainline. […]

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Gratitude 2022 (1) - Commonplaces

I decided this past Lord’s Day to start a new custom on the blog, which is to write short pieces about gratitude and specifically things I am grateful for as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, which I dearly love, even […]

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Gratitude 2022 (1) - Commonplaces

I decided this past Lord’s Day to start a new custom on the blog, which is to write short pieces about gratitude and specifically things I am grateful for as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, which I dearly love, even […]

Kirsten SandersFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

Kites - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

I taught my sons to fly a kite the other day. It was a beautiful Sunday morning and the wind was just right for it. They are old enough to know how a kite should fly but not old enough […]

Kirsten SandersFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation

Can I Get a Witness?: A Response to Tim Keller - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his recent essay, Tim Keller has entered his bit in a persistent dialogue regarding how Christians should speak in public. The players in this dialogue, including James Wood, Aaron Renn, and Simon Kennedy, are working to sort out how […]

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Church and "the Therapeutic", Ctd. - Commonplaces

Two different things, both of which I have seen in churches: Church One The church’s leadership distinguishes carefully between spiritual care/shepherding work and mental health/therapeutic care, preserving space for both, but keeping them clearly separate. “Parishioner” is not another word […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

Church and "the Therapeutic", Ctd. - Commonplaces

Two different things, both of which I have seen in churches: Church One The church’s leadership distinguishes carefully between spiritual care/shepherding work and mental health/therapeutic care, preserving space for both, but keeping them clearly separate. “Parishioner” is not another word […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

HR Goes to Church - Commonplaces

The longer that I listen to folks who didn’t like Samuel’s review talk about Samuel’s review the more I think Samuel has it exactly right. Perhaps this is a good way of getting at the concern I have, which is […]

Jake MeadorChurchCommunities

HR Goes to Church - Commonplaces

The longer that I listen to folks who didn’t like Samuel’s review talk about Samuel’s review the more I think Samuel has it exactly right. Perhaps this is a good way of getting at the concern I have, which is […]

Patrick MillerFeaturedChurch

Holographic Spurgeons and AI Sermons - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

At a fête for one of evangelicalism’s largest online media outfits, a colleague shared how he asked GPT-3, a language AI, what the Bible says about transgenderism. The AI produced a cogent theological explanation with Biblical citations. A senior editor […]