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If these collective strengths that we pride ourselves on can solve our decline, wouldn’t they have solved it by now?

Take a look at the clever and funny ways these animals stay cool in the summer.

My hope is that the church will hold onto what is good, true, and beautiful while calling out what is base, false, and ugly.

I sometimes find myself scrolling mindlessly through my social media accounts. I think that’s a problem. Would you agree?

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I think this “three-legged stool” of home, church, and school is now cracked and wobbly because we are neglecting discipleship and instruction as a result of our preference for absorbing the world’s culture rather than transforming it.

Imagining all the social media “likes” the image will get fuels my drive to share why that sign and sentiments like it continue to marginalize my son.

In light of Mother’s Day, let’s take stock of how women have changed the world.

When through our words we reduce a person made in God’s image into an object of derision in our minds and hearts, we have made them less human.

One of the things God designed trees to do is to affect the ground in different ways.

“For the sake of future siblings and the comfort of your family, place George in an institution and forget you ever had him.”

U.S. law generally allows for the ownership of firearms for purposes of self-defense (much less so in Canada). Whether we as Christians should exercise that right is a harder question.

Taking up my cross means accepting all the pain and injustice and misery life imposes on me as I attempt to be a faithful follower of Jesus.

Some think we have double standards or even some sort of reverse discrimination. The real reason, however, is a lot more innocuous.

Even for us today, the darkness of Christ crucified remains mystifying. In the cross, God no longer makes sense to us.

I have discovered that in the land of the lonely, one has an immense wardrobe of masks. It makes me wonder what the true face underneath is.