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Einstein Explains to Child if Scientists Pray

Once, when a little girl asked Albert Einstein if scientists pray, Einstein replied in part, “Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit ...


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Why God Won’t Answer Right Away

In nature, red skin signals that a tomato is ripe. But this is not necessarily true of tomatoes that have been forced to turn red. It is entirely possible, ...


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We Believe in God

The US has long ranked high among the world’s nations in its level of religious belief. But the Pew Research Center examined just what 80 percent ...


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Ukrainian-Americans Worship God Despite War

New York City has the largest Ukrainian population in the United States, a community of about 150,000. Thousands had come to the United States as Christian ...


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Do the Dead Still Rise?

Professor Craig Keener shares the following story in an issue of CT magazine:

Around 1960, in the Republic of Congo, a two-year-old girl named Thérèse ...

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Prayer Apps Raise Privacy Concerns

One of the most well-known maxims of social media is this: if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. For more than a decade, big ...


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Jesus Gave Me What My Fists Couldn’t

In his testimony in CT magazine, Allen Langham describes hitting rock bottom in prison and finding Jesus reaching out to him:

As a child, there was violence ...

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The Bizarre World of Online Grocery Store Substitutions

Ajanay Barnes and her roommate were craving ice cream one night, they used the grocery-shopping app Instacart to load up a basket at Walmart. They asked ...


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How Many Smells Are There?

How many smells are there? It’s an odd question, but give it some thought. Mentally flip through the pages of your personal smell catalog. You find ...


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How Billy Graham Prayed Continually

Author Skye Jethani tells the story of how Billy Graham modeled praying continually:

In 1982, the Today show in New York City scheduled an interview with ...

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