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Dr. Nate Showalter writes from Los Angeles, drawing on Anabaptist and ecumenical traditions to explore faith, worship, discipleship, and culture. His work invites readers to rediscover the beauty and challenge of believing together in a divided world.
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The Sound of an Old Story (opens the original)
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This fall, ninth-grade students across China are being asked to read Jane Eyre in full. Charlotte Brontë’s novel is nearly 180 years old, but Jane’s voice has traveled a long way from the Yorkshire parsonage where it was imagined. Chinese readers have loved her for generations. They have met her in translation, on the stage, and in the glow of a movie screen.The news caught my attention for another reason. China is tightening its control over religious life. Independent congregations face pressu
A Beautiful Life (opens the original)
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What makes a life beautiful?Our culture has plenty of answers.A beautiful body.A beautiful home.Beautiful clothes.Beautiful places photographed in beautiful light.The beautiful life is usually presented as something we construct by surrounding ourselves with the right things. It is carefully arranged, tastefully furnished, and attractively displayed.Peter offers a different vision.Writing to Christians scattered through Asia Minor, many of them living under pressure and facing an uncertain futur
A Church People Distrust—and Still Need (opens the original)
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What is happening to religion in America? The simplest answer is that Christianity is declining and the religiously unaffiliated are rising.That answer is true.It is also incomplete.Ryan Burge, a political scientist who studies American religion, has assembled a remarkable series of charts tracing the country’s religious transformation over the past five decades. The lines move in different directions, but taken together they tell a larger story.America is not moving neatly from faith to unbelie
What Does Tragedy Sound Like? (opens the original)
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What does immense tragedy sound like?On September 11, 2001, it sounded like airplanes where airplanes should never have been. It sounded like sirens.Alarms.Radios crackling.People shouting.People calling home.People saying, one last time, “I love you.”And then, in places where thousands of voices had been only moments before, it sounded like silence.Twenty-five years later, much of what we remember about that day comes to us through images: the towers burning, the second plane striking, people r
The Geography of Hope (opens the original)
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I recently spent a few days in England. There has been a drought—not only of water, but of hope.The fields were dry. Grass everywhere was brown. But what struck me even more was the national mood: a sense that things were not going especially well—and perhaps were not going to get better anytime soon.Then I came across a global Ipsos survey asking people whether they believed their country was heading in the right direction.The answers are striking.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" hr
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