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Keith Green: The Christian Singer Who Changed the Course of My Life

Many of us may consider music an enjoyable accessory to our daily lives. We view it like a good movie or an engrossing novel. For those of us who enjoy Christian music, certain artists’ music may speak to our hearts in profound ways. But the influence in my life of one Christian singer goes well beyond personal edification. I believe, without exaggeration, that he changed the course of my life. His name is Keith Green, and if you have never heard of him, I’d love to introduce you to his life and legacy. First Exposure: Wednesday Night Youth Group I...

Angie Velasquez Thornton

10 Things You Should Know About Ramadan

Angie Velasquez Thornton

This year, April 9 marks the end of the month-long fast sacred to Muslims around the world. Growing up in Southern California, I had little exposure to Islam in general, and to Ramadan in particular. During our ten years in Senegal, however, I learned a great deal about Ramadan thanks to my Muslim friends. And just as Paul sought to connect with his hearers as he proclaimed the message of eternal life at the Aeropagus in Acts 17, so we can seek to understand our Muslim friends, in the hopes of then being able to share our faith with them....

Phillis Wheatley: The Senegambian Slave-Turned-Poet

Angie Velasquez Thornton

Phillis Wheatley was captured and shipped across the Middle Passage across the Atlantic Ocean at age 7. The Senegambian young girl was purchased at a Boston auction in 1761 by John Wheatley for his wife Susanna. Her birth name is unknown to us, as the little girl was given the name of the slave vessel that tore her away from everything she’d ever known. A Genius in Bondage Phillis soon demonstrated such a capacity for languages that she could read fluent English by age 9. What’s more, she read and translated Greek and Latin classics by age 10. As a...

Who is Irenaeus of Lyons?

James R. Payton, Jr.

In the 180s AD, Irenaeus of Lyons established himself as the greatest theologian since the time of the apostles when he wrote A Refutation and Subversion of What is Falsely Called Knowledge—more commonly known as Against Heresies [AH] (the shortened title given the work by the church historian Eusebius)—and Presentation of the Apostolic Preaching. These took strikingly different approaches: AH offered a painstaking analysis and criticism of various heretical perspectives, while Apostolic Preaching presented an extended summary of what Christians believe and teach. Both works presented the Christian faith winsomely, as the message proclaimed by Jesus Christ and his apostles...

How to talk with your Postmodern Friends About Christianity (And a Brief History of how we got here)

Matthew Crocker

Imagine with me for a moment that you are at work in your break room—or wherever it is that you converse with your work colleagues—and the topic of conversation turns towards the controversial. You know that these workmates are not Christians and they begin to discuss the merits and demerits of MAID (medical assistance in dying). MAID has been in the news over the past few weeks as free democracies around the world lambast Canada’s disposal of those deemed societal drains. Now these work friends are going back and forth on the topic with a few zealously supporting the liberal...

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