When I Opened My Bible, God Gave Me a Magnifying Glass

Posted on Sep 26, 2024 in Asia, Bible, Bible study, Church Life, Conversion, Family, forgiveness, Global Church, God, India, International, Jesus, Persecution, Pluralism, salvation, Testimonies, Women

In 1991, as a young girl, I surrendered my life to Jesus Christ. It was not an easy decision, for I was born and raised in a devout Sikh family. Sikhism is among the youngest of the world religions, founded in AD 1469 in the northern state of Punjab, India. I was born in a Read more…

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An Evangelical’s Warning to Evangelical Christian Nationalists Aims Beyond the Easy Targets

Posted on Sep 25, 2024 in Abraham Lincoln, Book Genre, Books, Christian Nationalism, Donald Trump, Evangelicalism, Idolatry, Martin Luther King Jr., politics, Politics & Public Life, Reviews, Russia, theology, ukraine, United States, Vladimir Putin

Donald Trump’s manifold sins and acts of wickedness are so numerous that they are almost too tedious to repeat. He is a danger to democracy, a would-be fascist who has promised that voting for him means never needing to vote again, and he fomented the worst event in recent American history, the January 6, 2021, Read more…

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Parents Today Are Kinder and Gentler. They Can Still Take Sin Seriously.

Posted on Sep 18, 2024 in Bible, Book Genre, Books, children, Christian Living, Faithfulness, Family, James Dobson, Marriage & Family, Parenting, Psychology, Reviews

My husband and I found out we were expecting our first child in the summer of 2020. Ongoing pandemic lockdowns in California gave me ample time to read parenting books and research baby products. I was raised in the shadow of fundamentalist evangelicalism at the turn of the 21st century, my parents and their peers Read more…

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New & Noteworthy Books

Posted on Aug 22, 2022 in Uncategorized

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.
Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision
Alisha N. Mack and Charles C. Camosy (Eerdmans)
Alisha Mack (an evangelical nurse and nursing professor) and Charles Camosy (a Catholic ethicist) believe they’ve writ…

New & Noteworthy Books

Posted on Jun 8, 2022 in Uncategorized

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.
A Concise Guide to the Life of Muhammad: Answering Thirty Key Questions
Ayman S. Ibrahim (Baker Academic)
What can we know about the Islamic prophet Muhammad—about his historical profile and his religious teachings? In …