Amish Christian Romance and Unread Books
When we tried to force a change and remove the Amish romance novels, everyone lost.

When we tried to force a change and remove the Amish romance novels, everyone lost.

Silliman argues that each of these stories prefigures the current crisis within evangelicalism.

“Further up and further in” is an imaginary concept, informed by legend and myth, and also Scripture. These are invitations for all to partake in bigger experiences, conversations, joy, and peace.

Flawed and frightening as the #ChurchToo movement may be, the Christian community’s redemptive power as those indwelled by the Holy Spirit is greater.

The contemporary stereotype of tradition — which Moana so beautifully subverts — is that it’s static and deadening.

Trump’s rise to political prominence reveals the need for conservative evangelicals to offer a better, truer, more just vision of our country.

I was told for so many years to focus on my family, to make it good and strong and holy. But now all I ever want to tell my daughter is that it is sometimes those who speak the loudest about morality and spirituality who are all bluster and bluff.

Matt Papas has always had a passion to teach the Bible and for theology and music; his work is a marriage of those two things.

Cheap and disposable, they end up ribbing the outsides of full trash bags the Monday after communion Sunday.
“It is in the mind of Christ that Christians possessing the indwelling Holy Spirit can search the riches of art, even art that doesn’t line up with our theology.”
“Regardless of political beliefs, we need to discuss, dialogue and ask questions instead of blacklisting.”
“it is the job of the individual to cut through the clutter and see what is genuine and what is not.”
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