I often think about the time my family visited a church and sat close to a child who was behaving quite badly. Because he was only a couple of rows ahead of us, we could hardly fail to notice that he was sitting neither still nor quiet.
Young woman, what’s your legacy? / When unhealed illness brings shame / Healing came quietly / Mourning our “lasts” / 2026 is Big Tech’s Big Tobacco moment / Pastoral fortitude / Kindle and book deals.
Works & Wonders: Stunning Animals, Beautiful Bibles, Hidden Treasure, Mathematical Rivers, and Companies that Are Worse on Purpose
Weekend A La Carte: An unbelieving child / Nothing is original / The most measured woman / Blind, deaf, dumb / Your recommendations / An overlooked argument / and more.
Free Stuff Fridays: Win a copy of The Wisdom of Sleep!
August is often a fairly quiet month for new book releases, sitting as it does between the busy spring and fall seasons. However, there were lots of excellent books published this month, and I’m glad to share some of them with you.
Are you losing heart? / Why we don’t have insane asylums anymore / Walking alongside parents of LGBTQ+ identifying children / The England I knew is gone / Learning from the Jason Arday tragedy / What is a liturgy, and should we have one? / Book and Kindle deals.
Christian, your suffering isn’t pointless / What did Jesus mean by “cut off your hand”? / The parent blaming generation / Seasons of marriage / I refuse to give up printed books / Why good stories have bad examples / and more.
There is something that can happen when one year begins to ebb and another lies just over the horizon. It is something that can happen in those areas where our disciplines have grown lax and our habits have begun to wane.
Help! My child is entering puberty / Lindsay Clancy and the problem of therapy culture / What drives parents to frustration / The abortion pioneer who became a pro-life champion / What your church owns is not ultimately yours / Free stuff / and more.
US missionary freed after 9 months’ captivity / Sharing suffering / The Lord will keep your children’s lives / The real reason Iran is persecuting Christians / Dinesh D’Souza’s case against Calvinism, answered / Canadian military chaplains can’t mention God in public / Do religious families actually have more kids?
Every night, lying down to sleep is a small enactment of death and resurrection. Hear from Brett McCracken on what our nightly surrender teaches us about trusting God’s sovereignty in this excerpt from The Wisdom of Sleep, on the blog today.
Have you ever wondered why pastors who have been disqualified from ministry so rarely concede to the reality of their disqualification and just move on? Have you ever wondered why they so often disappear for a year or so and then turn up at another church or in a different denomination?
Making men and women hate each other / Will Christians really judge the world? / Why we never speak to each other / The New Earth / An anti-Pharisee’s prayer / Preaching simply / Kindle deals / and more.
Insects don’t live in the ocean / Underground mail / The return of the monarch / The most valuable items / Singing through the hymnal / Perfect wisdom and perfect purposes
Should Christian women freeze their eggs? / AI and utter chaos / A biblical case for IVF / Indy cars in D.C. / What A.I. is, and how I use it / Preparing for Sunday / Reader recommendations / and more.
Book Giveaway: a set of one volume of Shepherd’s Notes on the Old Testament and one volume of Shepherd’s Notes on the New Testament.
Homemaking has fallen on hard times. Once seen as an important and dignified vocation, it is now as likely to be disparaged as celebrated. I know few young women who intend to take it up as their main vocation, and few parents who are raising their daughters to assume or even consider it. What may…
Who gets to define a woman? / Can my silence cost souls? / What to do when authors we love sin / Gently walk her home / Advice for parents of new college students / Cause and effect or coincidence? / Funnies / and more.
Tackiness is not a sin / Does Israel have a claim? / Your worst nightmare / A call to fathers / 10 Prayers for teens / Uncomplicated hospitality / New books / and more.
TGC recently shared its policy for writers and the use of AI. Christianity Today did the same. In this article, I reflect on a new institutional/individual divide and consider how, just like blogs democratized influence, AI might democratize competence.
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