On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers. I asked Michael McEwen—a pastor, publisher, and author of The Devil Reads…
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Resist the Peer Pressure of a Secular Job – Miranda Carls
Since I started working in a secular environment, I have started struggling as a Christian. Help! If you’re employed, your work environment may occupy the largest portion of your time.…
The Scopes Trial at 100: Fact, Fiction, and the Christian Historian – Nathan A. Finn
This year marks the centennial of the Scopes Trial of 1925, one of the most famous moments in what has come to be called the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy. The controversy was…
Make Repentance Part of Your Holiday Preparation – Betsy Childs Howard
Read A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and…
Don’t Be Duped by This Year’s Biggest Religious Trend – Missy Speir
“We save us.” According to the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the dominant religious trend of 2025 can be summed up by this phrase. A…
How to Speak Jesus to Your Friends – Sam Chan
Loving Jesus means loving our neighbors as well. But our culture is increasingly post-Christian, post-church, and post-reached. Our neighbors feel further away than they’ve ever been. So what shifts are…
Are We Dirty or Dead? Revisiting Luther’s Argument for God’s Role in Salvation – Amy Mantravadi
Martin Luther reached the peak of his evangelical trajectory with his 1525 book On the Bondage of the Will. That’s where he made his strongest case for justification by grace…
Why Is the Son Called ‘Everlasting Father’? – J. Nicholas Reid
Every Christmas, churches around the world celebrate the incarnation of the Son using titles taken from Isaiah 9:6: “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” But why should…
How to Fight Your Phone Idolatry – Brett McCracken
Merriam-Webster defines “idolatry” in two ways: “the worship of a physical object as a god” and “immoderate attachment or devotion to something.” Using either of those definitions, it’s not a…
Against the World, for the Sake of the World – Jeremy Treat
The fourth-century African theologian Athanasius is known for standing contra mundum, against the world. When much of the church had turned toward Arianism, he stood firm on the truth that…