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The Reformation Began with a Single Word: Repent
On the 509th Reformation Day, a second look at the first of Luther's Ninety-Five ThesesEvery October 31, two calendars collide. One belongs to costumes, candy, and carved pumpkins on the front steps. The other belongs to the church, which remembers this date as the day an Augustinian monk in Wittenberg set a list of Latin propositions before the world. That was 509 years ago. Many congregations ..
2026.10.31
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[November 2026 Cultural Events] What Long Looking Teaches Us About Gratitude
Before a stage, a magazine, a book, and a still lifeNovember is the month when the year starts letting you feel its edges. The leaves come down, and in Korea the churches begin preparing for Thanksgiving Sunday, which many congregations keep in mid-November with a long look back over the ten months behind them. But gratitude, before it is a matter of counting what we have received, is a matter o..
2026.10.31
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Walking Dogo Onsen with Botchan in Hand
Walking Dogo Onsen with Botchan in HandReaders who have followed faith.log’s read.log column will remember Botchan, Natsume Sōseki’s comic novel of a hot-headed young teacher sent to the provinces. This installment of spot.log goes to the place that inspired it: Dogo Onsen, the old hot-spring quarter of Matsuyama on the Japanese island of Shikoku. There is a particular pleasure in walking into t..
2026.10.30
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Calvin’s Theology I: The Doctrine of Scripture - Sola Scriptura, the Spectacles
Calvin’s Theology I: The Doctrine of Scripture - Sola Scriptura, the Spectacles That Bring God into FocusIn the previous two installments of root.log, this writer traced the life of John Calvin. With this column, we turn from his life to his theology, and we begin where Calvin himself began: with his doctrine of Scripture. Everything Calvin taught about God and humanity, about salvation and the ..
2026.10.25
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A Christmas Seal and Two Generations of Calling: The Sherwood Hall Cultural Space at Hwajinpo, Korea
A Christmas Seal and Two Generations of Calling: The Sherwood Hall Cultural Space at Hwajinpo, KoreaEvery December, this writer remembers buying Christmas Seals at school. From grade school through high school, it was a small Advent ritual: two seals each year, one for a growing collection and the other pressed beside the stamp on a Christmas card. Many American readers will know the same little..
2026.10.15
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Living in the World but Not Like It: Robert Banks's A Day in the Life of an Early Christian: A Personal Record
Living in the World but Not Like It: Robert Banks's A Day in the Life of an Early Christian: A Personal RecordIn my last read.log column, I introduced Robert Banks's Going to Church in the First Century: An Eyewitness Account, a short novel that looks at the early church through the eyes of a curious outsider. Following that skeptical Roman as he sat in on a house-church gathering, readers got a..
2026.10.10
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Check-InOut: A Reading-Log App With a Few Tricks Up Its Sleeve
Check-InOut: A Reading-Log App With a Few Tricks Up Its SleeveThis month's desk.log pick is Check-InOut, a reading-log app. After reviewing a new reading app every month, I've noticed that most of them do roughly the same things. Check-InOut is different. It has features you won't find in a typical reading tracker. Usually, after trying out a string of apps, I end up settling on one. This time, ..
2026.10.05
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Let Us Begin Again #9: The Victorious Christian Life Is a Spirit-Filled Life
Even Believers Must Learn to Live by the SpiritWe believe in Jesus. We go to church, we pray, we read our Bibles. So why must we also learn to live "in the Spirit”? Many believers carry a quiet struggle they rarely say out loud. In their hearts they long to serve God faithfully and to live by His Word. Yet in daily life, instead of the life that pleases God, they find themselves falling back int..
2026.10.01
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[October 2026 Culture Notes] From Brushstroke to Page, from Page to the Word
[October 2026 Culture Notes] From Brushstroke to Page, from Page to the WordOctober is here. The sky lifts, the afternoons shorten, and the hand turning the page slows down almost without noticing. On the church calendar, October is also the month we remember the Reformation. After a monk's theses went up on a church door on October 31, 1517, the Word traveled across Europe on the back of movabl..
2026.09.30
