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The Midnight Club: A Meditation on Human Solidarity

By Matthew Allen

The Midnight Club explores many themes: life after death; illusion versus reality; faith and its loss. In this article, I focus on Flanagan’s analysis of...

Exercises in Self-Value: Escaping the Prison of...

By Duncan Pile

How do you view competition? Many see it as a necessary, even fundamental part of life – competition drives athletes to improve their performance.

Break Free From Self-Imposed Limitations

By Duncan Pile

Too often, Christians are told to embrace forms of suffering that we should seek to free ourselves from instead. We are presented with false ideas of...

Oppression or Liberation? Sweating Over Modest Clothing

By Ken Chitwood

When it comes to whether modest clothing is inherently oppressive or explicitly liberative, we must take multiple, and divergent, factors and tendencies...

Christ's Victory Over Sin

By Tom Sugimura

As we study God’s Word to the point of understanding, we can say “No” to sin as our thoughts and desires are transformed by what is written in the...

"Look Upon Us"

By Brad Wilcox

The Savior wants us as Christians living our religion seven days a week to be aware of people we can help and opportunities to show His mercy and His...

Food and Human Dignity: The View From Belfast

By Matthew Allen

Some basic level of social welfare is what each of us owe to fellow citizens and sojourners in our lands as a gesture of national – and indeed, human –...

Eulogy to My Queen

By Matthew Allen

It’s well known that some events are so momentous that you never forget where you were when the news broke. In years to come, the death of Queen...

Religion, James Bond Religion

By Ken Chitwood

Say "No" to Sin

By Tom Sugimura

Saying “No” to sin requires the motivation to resist just as much as the skills to do so. Good morals require biblical foundations because morality can...

The Core of Christianity

By Brad Wilcox

The 7-day Christian can experience that abundance with the Savior's grace every day of the week. Christ offers us life after death and life after sin or...

The Way Down is the Way Up

By Tom Sugimura

Jesus did not become a man just so he could see what life was like on earth, but so that he could die for sinners on a cross and “give his life as a...

Building Better Communities

By Duncan Pile

Every church can make the choice to inject all they do with compassion and grace, welcoming those that society might reject and supporting those who are...

Religious Confessions of British University Students

By Matthew Allen

Whatever impressions a person forms as a younger adult are likely to remain over the course of a lifetime. God send us wisdom to carry this...

"Event Horizon:" Conquering Hell

By Matthew Allen

Paul Anderson’s "Event Horizon" is a hard movie to watch, but from a Christian perspective it reminds us that Hell can only be defeated when someone goes...

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