Spiritual Oneupmanship and the Dangers of Digital Discipleship
The way we speak to others is just as important as the beliefs and ideas we hold.

The way we speak to others is just as important as the beliefs and ideas we hold.

Are we crying out for justice so that God might reveal himself to a broken world? Or do we just want to look righteous on social media?

Maybe our lesson from 1985 and 2025 is to be strengthened in the three hopes of Scripture, in giving the past, present, and future over to God.

Would we really be so quick to throw away our status and privilege for a life of hardship, struggle, and near-certain death?

God’s freedom rooted in constraints gives peace to His followers and hope to those outside the Church looking in.

I write this primarily as one for whom mourning was always going to be the inevitable result of this cycle’s campaign season.

We’ve become a tribal people because our environment has become one based on deception.

AI’s ultimate legacy may end up being the damage that it does to our ability to understand, determine, and agree upon what is real.

We’re called to imitate Frodo’s mercy and humility as we walk through this American political Mordor.

Some Christians want their version of revival so desperately that they try to force revival through fearmongering.

There’s no doubt that we live in a politically divisive era, and sadly, much of that division is driven by biblical interpretation.

It’s easy to sneer at celebrity pastors who traded key moral convictions for political power, but it’s hard to watch those we love do the same.

If we don’t cultivate careful discernment, our political biases may lead to confusion, anger, and even a rejection of what we see and hear.

A “freedom” which floats above social context and concrete relational bonds is no freedom at all.

Nicholas’s assumption that he was acting on God’s behalf to preserve the divinely-blessed Russian Empire pushed the country into disaster.

The truths Black women offer are rarely rosy verities, but they are necessary gospels if we are to make our American culture equitable and just for all.
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