When I was a boy, I learned that my father wasn’t the father of our household. That responsibility belonged to another person. I understood that my father wasn’t mom’s husband anymore. Mom is betrothed to another person. I knew that my father wasn’t around to comfort mom. That role belonged to another person. Mom explained…
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The most convincing lies do not sound like lies, they sound like the truth. We’re more likely to accept lies when they contain a measure of truth. And this is why half-truths about Christianity are so popular. Half-truths are deliberate attempts to conceal whole truths. Half-truths happen when we subtract half of the truth from…
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Tim Challies is my mentor and pastor. I want to be like him when I finally grow up. He is a blogger at Challies.com. He’s the co-founder of Cruciform Press. And he’s the author several books, including Sexual Detox: A Guide For Guys Who Are Sick of Porn (2010), Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity (2015), and Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth About…
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Reactions to the late-term abortion bills in New York and Virginia illustrate the contrast between America and Canada. Late-term abortions are controversial in America, but they are conventional in Canada. In late-term abortions, abortionists fill a needle with a fatal dose of digoxin and they insert the needle through the mother’s stomach and through baby’s…
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Forty years ago, Liam Neeson roamed in Black neighbourhoods across Northern Ireland looking for an innocent Black man to attack—a Black man like me. He was in his mid-twenties at the time. He wasn’t a Hollywood star yet. He was just a young actor with minor roles in films between the late 1970s and early…
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We will be held accountable for every careless tweet. Every careless tweet—including the ones we’ve deleted—are viral tweets before the throne of God. Social media isn’t the problem, we are. Twitter isn’t a bad platform, our hearts are: for out of the abundance of the heart, the hands tweet. If we’re not kind on social…
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When I became Reformed over a decade ago, I was convinced I was the only Reformed African at the time. All my African friends looked at me with bewilderment when I first talked about Reformed theology with them. But then in one of his sermons, Paul Washer mentioned a pastor from Zambia he named “the…
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Jemar Tisby’s first book does a masterful job describing how White Christians in America compromised on slavery and segregation against Black Americans. But in his attempt to expose the American Church’s supposed complicity in systemic racism today, Jemar Tisby reveals his own complicity in foolish, ignorant controversies that breed quarrels within the Church. The Color…
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Ben Shapiro’s slogan is, “Facts don’t care about your feelings.” And he’s not wrong. Our feelings have no bearing on facts. Our feelings cannot change facts. Facts are reliable; feelings are not. Facts are more important than feelings. But we live in a postmodernist culture. The truth isn’t the truth anymore. Facts are offensive now….
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All of my neighbours would probably tell you that I am a good neighbour―except for one. When I shovel snow from my driveway the morning after a snowfall, I always shovel snow from my neighbour-to-the-right’s driveway too. That neighbour is a single Black mother with a teenage daughter and she’s my mother’s friend. She is…
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