What ‘Gentle Parenting’ Misunderstands About Human Nature
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“…gentle parenting professionals are liable to use reductive and ahistorical claims about human beings as the groundwork on which to build a whole series of promises.” - Megan Dent
God’s Good Gift of Hobbies
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“Outside of work, I found myself planning astronomy outings to the desert, tracking news on space programs, and reading books on what the intelligent design community had learned in relation to astronomy and God’s amazing and necessary involvement in developing our universe.” - IFWE
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Retirement doesn’t just raise financial concerns – it can also mean feeling unmoored and irrelevant
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“If you have spent 40 years of your life working 40 hours a week, retirement isn’t just a financial consideration, writes a philosopher.” - RNS
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The Theological Center of Our Current Political Battle
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“While I agree that the struggle in politics is ‘theological’… it is not merely a matter of the theology of left and right at odds with one another. The problem is that unless men submit themselves to the God who made all things, they can’t see the world properly.” - Don Johnson
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Bearing God’s Image: Why the Image of God Is Not Abstract Art
You’re staring at the painting, pretending to appreciate it like those around you in the museum. Maybe they are pretending too? You’re not sure. What is this picture? Why do so many people like it? What’s the big deal? Maybe this is how you feel about the image of God. How does knowing you are an image bearer help you? What are the practical implications of bearing God’s image?
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How the Creative Process Can Be an Act of Worship
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“they taught me to think about the creative act as a kind of worship, as a way to be human. Since we were made to glorify God, worship happens when someone is doing exactly what he or she was made to do.” - IFWE
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Interview with Kevin Gushiken, author of ‘A Theology of Play: Learning to Enjoy Life as God Intended’
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“Play has helped me not to be defined by my difficulty or my desert. It’s helped me to see life as more than something that is challenging. It’s helped me see that my joy is not dependent on my health and my play is not dependent on whether life is good.” - Common Good
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“Delight in beauty is not self-indulgence....It is a most sensible and realistic response to the reality around us.”
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“because we’re the image of God, yearn for beauty. It’s in our DNA; we can’t help but admire it. On the other hand, we routinely destroy it.” - By Faith
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Image Bearers: Have We Lost the Image of God?
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The mirror shattered. When first made, the mirror perfectly reflected its Maker. A clean, clear picture revealed Him. But when the pit of that fruit struck the glass, snaking cracks distorted His image. Blurring obscured what He intended His creation to see. God’s image remained but not as He designed it to be.
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The Pursuit of (Which) Happiness?
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“Admittedly, many Christians will insist joy (deep, serious, lasting) should be sharply distinguished from happiness (light, trivial, fleeting), but this is a relatively recent—and in my view unhelpful—distinction.” - TGC
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