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Arabic, A Christian Language
To whom does a language belong? One might think it the possession of all who speak it. But as anyone who has learned a foreign language can attest, one...
On the Freedom of a Christian Rapper
Much to the chagrin of over-earnest theology scribblers everywhere, Kanye West is now one of America’s most well-known public theologians. Some Christians have expressed skepticism about his conversion, others...
Catholicism Made Me Protestant
Like all accounts of God’s faithfulness, mine begins with a genealogy. In the late seventeenth century, my mother’s Congregationalist ancestors journeyed to the New World to escape what they...