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How I Changed My Mind (Kind Of) on the Death Penalty

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Several years ago, Shane Claiborne joined me on my podcast to tell me where I was wrong on the death penalty. He is against it; I was for it. I told him afterward that he had “almost persuaded me,” but not qu...

Christianity TodayOct 21, 2026

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Kinship With the Dead Doesn’t Have to Be Spooky

Last month I took my kids to visit a small family cemetery where my father and brother are buried. My 4-year-old, full of questions, had never seen a tombstone before. Her total ignorance reminded me that we live in a world where death exists mostly as an abstraction: We may ackn...

Christianity TodayOct 21, 2026

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Stephen and the Lord Who Received Him

How does God make death serve his saints? John Piper shows from Acts 7:54–8:1 how the Spirit turned Stephen’s death into a doorway to Jesus.Watch Now

Desiring GodOct 21, 2026

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Stinginess and the Generosity of God

On a trip to Ukraine in 1991, my pastor friend and I spent the evening with a large family, feasting, singing hymns, laughing, and exalting Jesus together. We felt guilty when we learned our hosts had served an entire month’s ration of butter at the meal, but they assured us ther...

Desiring GodOct 21, 2026

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Finding Meaning in Our Daily Work (with Denise Daniels)

Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop talk with Denise Daniels, the Hudson T. Harrison endowed chair of entrepreneurship at Wheaton College and coauthor of Working in the Presence of God, Religion in a Changing Workplace, and Working for Better. Drawing on a major research project that su...

The Gospel CoalitionOct 21, 2026

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Albania’s streets erupt in protest, raising questions about the nation’s EU future

Albania (MNN) — Capitals become battlefields around the world as young people demand change. Youth-led protests are gaining ground from India to France to Albania. TeachBeyond’s Bani Vercani says demonstrations were peaceful this summer in Albania’s capital, but starting last wee...

Mission Network NewsOct 21, 2026

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The Story Bible That Taught Me How to Teach Kids

In early summer 2026, I finally found it. If my research is right, only 27 U.S. libraries have first editions of Catherine F. Vos’s Child’s Story Bible. But one of those sets resides at Asbury Theological Seminary—just 76 miles away from my home in Louisville. I have three other ...

The Gospel CoalitionOct 21, 2026