I doubt there will be a sudden run on “What Would Mary Do?” bracelets after this essay is published, but I’m going to make the claim anyway: The Mother of our Lord is a wonderful yet far too often underappreciated model of discipleship among today’s heirs of the Reformation. [...]

Michael S. Horton
Tuesday, May 6th 2025

A few years ago, my friend Marieke Ude, Counselor at John Calvin Secondary School in Oswanka, Nigeria, encouraged me to write a children’s book about Byang Henry Kato (1936–1975). It didn’t take long for Kato to become one of my favorite theologians. [...]

Simonetta Carr
Tuesday, April 29th 2025

During one of my first meetings with NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness) in relation to my son’s condition, the moderator listed some “Predictable Stages of Reactions” to a diagnosis of mental illness. The first stage, “Dealing with Catastrophic Events,” included shock, denial, and “hope against hope.” [...]

Simonetta Carr
Tuesday, April 22nd 2025

Nearly fifty years ago, Henry M. Morris, founder of the Institute for Creation Research, wrote an article detailing the parallels between the creation week in Genesis 1 and Holy Week in the Gospels. In one week, the world was made; in the other, remade. [...]

Brannon Ellis
Friday, April 18th 2025
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