One of the common responses to the decline of Christianity in America is to note that it is not our fault. The decline is evidence

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There’s a scene in Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country, where Stephen Kumalo and his guide Msimangu, both Black pastors in search of Kumalo’s lost

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At a leadership training event I attended in January, we were invited to: “talk to someone you love tonight. Ask them: ‘what is one thing

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Here is Job 29 from the NRSV: Job again took up his discourse and said: A“O that I were as in the months of old,as

“The Reformation achieved great popular success because it satisfied, or promised to satisfy, the needs of many people who earnestly desired the consolations of the