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2024-05-31T14:21:58-05:00

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The Feast of the Visitation: A Portrait of a Disciple

Last updated on: May 31, 2024 at 2:21 pm By Kelley Mathews

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For hundreds of years, the church worldwide has celebrated the Visitation—the meeting of Jesus’s mother, Mary, with her cousin Elizabeth, disciples putting their faith on display. The biblical text of Luke 1:39–56 tells the story: In those days Mary set out and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah where she entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped inside her, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Then she... Read more

History and Religion

2024-05-18T09:19:50-05:00

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Book Review: Preaching That Speaks to Women

Last updated on: May 18, 2024 at 9:19 am By Kelley Mathews

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My guest today is Hannah Beasley, a recent grad of Dallas Seminary who shows us how good books don’t have to be new releases. Imagine a pastor who walks on stage, preaches a sermon, and ignores half his congregation. Alice Mathews* argues that a similar scenario occurs on most Sunday mornings. On average, women comprise over fifty percent of our congregations, yet so often pastors and teachers fail to consider how gender differences impact the reception of their messages. Alice... Read more

Education and Religion

2024-04-13T15:34:33-05:00

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Mnemonic Devices for Your Faith

Last updated on: April 13, 2024 at 3:34 pm By Kelley Mathews

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In grade school, we learned complicated facts using mnemonic devices—memory aids to help us remember grammar, math, and other academic information. Have you ever sung the ABCs? Does “Roy G Biv” float through your mind when a rainbow appears? Did you survive math by muttering “Please excuse my dear aunt Sally”? (PEMDAS, for the order of operations, if you’ve forgotten.) Memory helps just make sense. What mnemonic devices, or memory helps in general, assist you in remembering God’s faithfulness? Because,... Read more

Education and Religion

2024-04-09T09:02:04-05:00

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Finalists for Christian Book Awards Announced

Last updated on: April 9, 2024 at 9:02 am By Kelley Mathews

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Looking for a good book? The 2024 book award finalists in Christian nonfiction were announced on April 8 by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). The ECPA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to “equip members so they can more effectively make the Christian message more widely known” (from their website). Elevating the best offerings from Christian publishing, both fiction and non-fiction, is one of their primary methods of encouraging effective gospel communication. This year’s entire list of 65... Read more

Education and Religion

2024-03-31T22:38:26-05:00

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Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

Last updated on: March 31, 2024 at 10:38 pm By Kelley Mathews

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Melito, bishop of Sardis in the second century, preached this Easter sermon, excerpted below, in AD 170. It was first discovered in a fourth-century papyrus codex and has been translated by Campbell Bonner. Photos here were taken during my academic course in Italy, January 2023. (Being) Lord, having put on human nature, and having suffered for him who was suffering, and having been bound for him who was bound, and having been condemned for him who was condemned, and having... Read more

History and Religion

2024-03-18T11:34:02-05:00

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Lenten Reflections on the Cross, Violence, and Suffering

Last updated on: March 18, 2024 at 11:34 am By Kelley Mathews

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We are less than two weeks from Easter, deep in the Lenten season but looking toward the cross on Good Friday. As part of my Lenten discipline, I’ve been reading Brian Zahnd’s newest book, The Wood Between the Worlds: a Poetic Theology of the Cross. Zahnd offers thoughtful, sometimes controversial but always reverent reflections on the complex meanings found in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The back cover copy summarizes the book well: “Just as gazing through the eyepiece of... Read more

Religious Events

2024-02-12T08:45:59-05:00

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An Evangelical’s Guide to Lent

Last updated on: February 12, 2024 at 8:45 am By Kelley Mathews

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I’ve been a practicing Protestant in the Baptist tradition all my adult life, but when the big liturgical seasons like Lent and Advent come around each year, my Catholic upbringing preens a little. I had a front-row seat to the liturgical traditions practiced by Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican, Episcopalian, and several other mainline denominations within the worldwide Christian church. Evangelicals are generally not included in that group, though in recent years some “low-church” denominations have begun introducing annual traditions to their... Read more

History and Religion

2024-01-17T11:02:40-05:00

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One-Year Bookiversary for ’40 Questions’

Last updated on: January 17, 2024 at 11:02 am By Kelley Mathews

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One year ago today, Sue Edwards and I celebrated the release of 40 Questions about Women in Ministry, a Kregel Academic addition to their 40 Questions series. In our book, we address the controversy surrounding the Bible’s teaching about women—their worth, their relationship to God, their gifts, and their place in church, home, and society. If you attend church regularly, you’ve likely run across some facet of the conversation. In the American South, where Sue and I live among evangelical... Read more

2024-01-11T15:54:23-05:00

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Review: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta

Last updated on: January 11, 2024 at 3:54 pm By Kelley Mathews

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta My Goodreads rating: 5 of 5 stars Tim Alberta, best-selling author, journalist with The Atlantic, and pastor’s son, chronicles a painful—and still developing—season in the American evangelical movement with heartbreaking detail and incisive analysis. Half of the book follows key figures any evangelical on Twitter would recognize, showing how deep and broad the author’s access was to the power players, along with a... Read more

History and Religion

2024-01-06T11:44:43-05:00

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The Feast of Epiphany, Season of Glory

Last updated on: January 6, 2024 at 11:44 am By Kelley Mathews

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Epiphany has arrived—finally, the Magi can meet the child Jesus! Our composite Nativity scenes most often include both shepherds and wise men observing the holy family, but the biblical story teaches us that the visiting groups arrived at vastly different times. It’s become a family tradition in many homes to move the three kings and all their entourage closer to the creche each day after Christmas, until finally they reach the scene on January 6. Why January 6? Centuries of... Read more

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