The Enlightenment Improved the World—But Not without Christianity
This review was written for The Gospel Coalition. see here. Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker is convinced that humanity’s lot...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- May 24, 2018
- 4 min
How breastfeeding changed my view of God
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Apr 30, 2018
- 2 min
CT podcast and gospel hospitality
Where does hospitality begin and end? How far does family stretch? Does the second commandment implicate where we sit in church? Last...
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chad9467
- Apr 23, 2018
- 4 min
Extrovert bias or biblical imperative?
Last Thursday, Christianity Today Women published a version of an article from this blog : 5 reasons I don’t always sit with my husband...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Mar 18, 2018
- 1 min
A Wrinkle In Time is surprisingly flat
Last week, I reviewed the film A Wrinkle In Time for The Gospel Coalition. While there was much to appreciate about the film...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Mar 10, 2018
- 1 min
Closing the character gap
I had the pleasure last week of reviewing my friend Christian Miller's excellent book The Character Gap: How good are we? for The Gospel...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Mar 4, 2018
- 3 min
How #MeToo killed post-truth
There are many unknowns about tonight’s Oscars, but one thing is for sure: some attempt will be made to express public support for the...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Feb 25, 2018
- 5 min
Confessions of a reluctant complementarian
I was an undergraduate at Cambridge when I first encountered Ephesians 5:22. I’d come from an academically driven, equality-oriented,...
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chad9467
- Feb 18, 2018
- 5 min
5 reasons why I don’t always sit with my husband in church.
“Are you and Bryan OK?” asked a friend. “Yes, why?” “I noticed you weren’t sitting together in church.” I’ve answered this question...
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chad9467
- Feb 8, 2018
- 1 min
50 Shades of Love
As the third installment of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy hits the screens, I wanted to share a little poem I wrote when the first film...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Jan 5, 2018
- 6 min
6 Cracks in a Secular Worldview
This article was published by The Gospel Coalition . Read it there or below. “You think what I believe is crazy, right?” I said to a...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Jan 1, 2018
- 4 min
The true heartbreak of reading the Bible
Have you ever had your heart broken? I have. I could tell you what happened. But instead I’m going to tell you what didn’t happen. No...
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Rebecca McLaughlin
- Dec 7, 2017
- 1 min
Imagine no religion? It's harder than you think
30 years ago, sociologists of religion believed that global modernization would lead to secularization. They were wrong. I wrote an...
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chad9467
- Nov 9, 2017
- 1 min
Truth, love, and persuasion
When is persuasion an act of love and when it is coercion? When it comes to faith, what role should persuasion play? These questions...
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chad9467
- Sep 22, 2017
- 1 min
Jesus, Freedom and The Handmaid's Tale
Sunday night's Emmys celebrated the dramatic re-presentation for a new generation of Margaret Atwood's 1980s dystopian masterpiece, The...
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chad9467
- Jul 22, 2017
- 3 min
A female Doctor? That’s nothing. Let’s talk about the real controversy in Doctor Who
On Christmas Day, the British sci-fi series Doctor Who will break new ground as the Doctor regenerates into a female body. After 12 male...
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chad9467
- Jul 17, 2017
- 4 min
Jane Austen's answer to Atheism 2.0
200 years after her death, how would Jane Austen respond to the new, new atheism? In his TED talk, “Atheism 2.0,” School of Life...
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