Beyond the Page

I don’t know if you’ve looked out the window recently but…it’s been quite the wild ride these past few years. Not just the pandemic, but a whole host of things has Christianity splitting apart at [...]

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“Look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church website. If you find it, run as fast as you can…am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!” – Glenn Beck In [...]

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For over forty years, Philip Yancey has written about faith. You don’t a career that lasts that long and has been so successful without intense personal motivation. Throughout his writing, Yancey has shared parts of [...]

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Micah Wilder set off on his missionary journey to convert everyone he spoke with to the Mormon faith. Instead, an encounter with a Baptist pastor opened his eyes to the Jesus he never knew—one quite [...]

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For well over a decade now, Joel Rosenberg has had his finger on the pulse of the Middle East. His debut novel The Last Jihad opens with terrorists hijacking an airplane to fly into important [...]

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A few months ago, I began a doctoral program in ministerial leadership. The overarching project for the degree is a dissertation on any subject related to leadership and ministry. After a month of prayer and [...]

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In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said that “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday.” Almost sixty years later and his words continue to ring mostly [...]

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Hinge Moments. Whether you’ve been preparing for one for a long time or whether one takes you by surprise, they can be scary to navigate and difficult to get through. University president and sociologist D. [...]

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When you ask the world about the church, what you hear is often not complimentary. Christians are hypocrites is maybe the most common. In the past few years especially, the evangelical church’s drive for political [...]

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Child loss affects more families than we know, because it’s something that’s rarely discussed—and even more rarely discussed in a way that’s helpful and healing. I’m so thankful for Hallie Scott’s willingness to share her [...]

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