My experience tells me that supersizing is not the likeliest route to good health, physically or spiritually.
As I Was Saying
This is The Banner's online opinion column, from a variety of different writers, published Fridays.
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Let's Stop Pretending Human Beings Are Dead When They Are Clearly Alive
By Charles C. CamosyREAD MOREAnyone with a middle school understanding of biology knows that, if these cardiologists get their way, the human beings from whom we would be taking organs are not, in fact, dead.
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I’ve learned a lot being here, but it’s been a tense time to live in D.C.
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Justice is a critical concept for Christians because it is important to God. Yet the Bible has a way of shattering all our notions of justice.
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We have a choice: to surrender to outrage and conspiracy, or recommit to our first freedoms—a sacred democratic commitment to one another.
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The temptation to use AI as a friend, therapist, and even romantic partner has been widely reported. What about AI-powered introspection?
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How can we learn to control our appetites (which are natural and originally good, and yet bad when they’re out of control) so that we don’t end up defined and dominated by them?
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No country in the world has gone as far as Canada in enabling people to die if they want to.
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The help I once thought was readily and unreservedly available is not. And some of those I once thought were willing to provide whatever was necessary in order to preserve precious human life have proved not to be so willing.
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When people grumble about The Banner, I fear they have forgotten to read it correctly.
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Many of us live lives that feel exhaustingly fast paced, running constantly but never really feeling caught up. How might we deal with that?
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Especially toward guests, kèqì is an overwhelming, welcoming force.
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Isolation has crept in slowly—first through busyness, then through screens, and now through habits we don’t even question. It’s not just sad—it’s spiritually dangerous.
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Healing is not linear; neither is grief.
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As popular as it is, few people seem to know or even care about the origin and authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
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We need not a new approach, but a return to the ordinary tools by which Christ has always formed his people.
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We must demand accountability for those who have been notified of abuse allegations, only to rationalize, cover up, and even deny them.
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Do we choose God or does God choose us? Admittedly, there are Bible passages to support both.
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While our national discourse rightfully condemns Islamophobia and antisemitism, the systematic persecution of Christians around the world receives only a fraction of our collective outrage.
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Whatever it is you want to do someday—whatever it is, go home and do it today.
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Little did we fathom that our new bundle of feline joy came bearing surprises.
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The church paved a way for me to discover my purpose and build a meaningful life. Christ followers everywhere must continue that work.
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The CRC has been inviting people from five or six classes at a time to gather in major cities and share stories of the challenges, opportunities, and Spirit-led transformation they’re seeing in their local communities.
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To Charlie Kirk, Mike Huckabee, and every Christian taught to fear my people and my city—come and see.