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10 Things You Should Know About Critical Theory
If you are like many people, for a good while you may have heard the term “critical theory” in the news, in this or that journal, or in your various media sources.
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Podcast: What Is Critical Theory? (Bradley Green)
Dr. Bradley Green explains the history, key figures, movements, and cultural influence of Critical Theory and how Christians should counter this worldview.
3 Foundational Differences Between Critical Theory and Christianity
Critical theory has its own understanding of creation and reality, its own understanding of sin and the human dilemma, and its own understanding of redemption, history, and eschatology.
What Is Wisdom, and How Do I Acquire It?
In a world awash with information, we as believers desperately need wisdom. But what is it exactly? That is a surprisingly difficult question to answer simply.
Podcast: The Life and Legacy of Harriet Tubman (Shar Walker)
Shar Walker talks through Harriet Tubman's life of sacrifice, service, and bravery.
10 Things You Should Know About the Wisdom of God
Human wisdom has its place and its uses, but it is inevitably affected by the effects of the fall and the curse on creation that resulted. What we most desperately need is the wisdom of God.
How the Bible Tells Us to Pursue Purity
In the aftermath of this onslaught against purity culture, are we in danger (and are sometimes guilty) of discarding the baby (purity) with the bathwater (purity culture)?
Sabbath Is More Than Self-Care
No longer dismissed as the niche habit of observant Jews and New England Puritans, the Sabbath is now a habit that seemingly everyone aspires to.
Even in Your Groaning, Remember That the Lord Will Restore All Things
The Bible is punctuated with promises of restoration. They assure you that restoration is written into God’s unshakable redemptive plan.
What Francis Grimké Would Say to the Church Today About Racial Prejudice
Francis Grimké would have a lot that he would want us to know about racial prejudice. He preached prolifically on this topic and had so many thoughts.
What Is the Difference Between Doubt and Unbelief?
If you’ve lived the Christian life very long as a believer, you know that every Christian, at some point or another, has that moment where they wonder whether the things they believe are really true.
The Reality Behind Our Culture’s Favorite Mantra
Surely you’ve seen the simple, uplifting mantra for our times: “You Are Enough.” But have you stopped to consider why this phrase, in these settings, is this popular?
Podcast: Answering Your Questions About AI and Christianity (Part 2)
Samuel James and Shane Morris answer theological, cultural, and ethical questions submitted by the Crossway audience about Christianity and AI.
Podcast: Answering Your Questions About AI and Christianity (Part 1)
Samuel James and Shane Morris answer theological, cultural, and ethical questions submitted by the Crossway audience about Christianity and AI.
In our culture, to be blessed is to have something you know many others would want or something you know is beyond the experience of the average person.
The Best Advice for Dealing with Doubt Is Not to Ignore It
If there are doubts that are popping up, rather than just letting them linger in your peripheral vision, why not actually bring them front and center and take a look at where that doubt is coming from?
Is Phone Addiction Really That Bad?
The more you repeat a dopamine-releasing behavior, the greater your tolerance becomes. This applies to social media—a dopamine-releasing substance—which was designed to be addictive.
One of the Best Defenses Against Depression That Never Gets Mentioned
If you aren’t currently a churchgoer and you start attending weekly, you reduce your chances of developing depression by a third.
Your Moral Code Has Christian Roots Whether You Know It or Not
Most people in our culture hold certain moral truths to be self-evident, and we see these views as basic moral common sense. But if we look at history, they’re not.
Podcast: The Surprising Health Benefits of Going to Church (Rebecca McLaughlin)
Rebecca McLaughlin discusses how church attendance has positively fought against the levels of loneliness, depression, anxiety, and addiction in the world.
Hope for Those Who Have Made Sex an Idol
To be sure, sex is a good gift. This good gift, though, when elevated to the best gift—a necessity, a non-negotiable, something we cannot live without—causes great damage.
How to Fight Your Phone Idolatry
When we scroll immoderately, we become idolaters, hopelessly hooked into a drip feed of sweet-tasting poison that will never satisfy. If we can’t break free, we’ll scroll ourselves to spiritual death.
Remember These Two Things When Your Emotions Feel out of Control
There’s something deeply right about being out of control of your emotions. We were not made to control our emotions—at least that we were made to be affected by the world around us.
Why Does Life Feel So Unsatisfying?
Why does life feel unsatisfying? It does, more often than we wish that it did. The better we have it, the more pronounced our depression, or at least unhappiness. What is that about?
A Plastic World Changed How We Perceive the Self
The notion of the self with which we now intuitively operate in the West is arguably simply one example of a much broader view of the whole of reality.
10 Uncomfortable Truths About Christian Sexual Ethics
Contrary to Gnostic, body-shaming tendencies within some strands of Christianity, the human body and its sexual functions are neither dirty nor demeaning in God’s created order.
How Digital Tech Undermines the Value of Embodiment
Digital technology has recalibrated our worldviews and reshaped our consciences not to see the good givenness of our bodies.
How Technology Is Changing the Way We View People Created in God’s Image
One of the ways that modern technology is changing the way we view other people has to do with the disembodied nature of so much of modern technology.
Christians Shouldn’t Normalize a Sedentary Lifestyle
Bodily activity is so basic, so obvious, often so assumed, that we easily overlook what a veritable superpower it is.
In science and faith discussions, the God-of-the-gaps fallacy is a kind of death sentence. It means you have violated a cardinal rule. What’s going on? What exactly is this fallacy, and why is it such a bad thing?