Tracy & Michael Balboni on Praying for Miracles and Learning to Die Well
Interview with Tracy and Michael Balboni When someone we love is seriously ill, praying for a miracle can feel like the only thing we can…
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Tracy & Michael Balboni on Why the Church Struggles to Face Death
Interview with Tracy and Michael Balboni Western society works hard to keep death out of sight, and the church often follows suit. Michael and Tracy…
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What Was the Tower of Babel? Understanding Genesis 11:1–9
By Tremper Longman III The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) is a well-known story from the Bible, but it raises questions: What was wrong about…
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Tremper Longman III on Reading the Torah’s Most Puzzling Passages
Interview with Tremper Longman III It can be easy to turn to certain passages in the Bible, particularly the familiar ones that provide comfort or…
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Burning Bushes Everywhere
By Laura Kauffman What if the sacred isn’t hiding—we’ve just stopped looking? As a spiritual director and poet, Laura Kauffman knows well how paying attention…
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Refusing to Tame the Psalms: A Transparent Translation of the Psalter
By James M. Hamilton James M. Hamilton’s The Book of Psalms: A Transparent Translation for Daily Meditation is his fresh translation of all 150 Psalms….
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James M. Hamilton on Letting the Psalms Be Ancient
Interview with James M. Hamilton The Psalms are beloved by Christians for good reason. We pray them, meditate on them, and memorize them. But in…
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Can You Pray Deeply from a Script? Three Reasons to Pray Historic Prayers
As the editor of the Prayers of the Church series, Robert Elmer has encountered hundreds of prayers from historic saints. We asked him to reflect…
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Michael Niebauer on How the Lectionary Connects Scripture with Worship
Interview with Michael Niebauer Every Sunday in churches around the world, worshipers hear a set of Scripture readings, but many struggle to see how they…
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Rediscovering the Lectionary’s Unrealized Potential
By Michael Niebauer Michael Niebauer grew up in a church that used the lectionary. For nearly a thousand Sundays, he heard four Scripture readings a week—but he couldn’t say how any of…
