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Horoscopes, tarot, and manifesting have gone mainstream, showing up in our feeds and everyday conversations. Continuing our Peacemakers series, Robyn Schad explores what Scripture says about spiritual darkness, why these practices appeal to so many of us, and how followers of Jesus can recognize the battle, return to the light, and reflect that light with both courage and compassion.

Which candidate would Jesus vote for? In 2004, two college students debated that question until one slapped the other to the ground. The argument hasn't cooled much since.

Nobody gets married hoping to get divorced, yet few topics divide people more. Michael Wittwer walks through Jesus' words in Matthew 19, looking at God's ideal for marriage, the hard questions about divorce and remarriage, and how to be a peacemaker wherever your own story has landed.

As the Peacemakers series begins, Michael Wittwer explores the four kinds of peace Jesus offers, then takes on one of the most divisive questions of our day: how can I trust God with my sexuality and identity? It's an honest look at what Jesus said, where Christians disagree, and how we can disagree and still love each other.

It's possible to know a lot about the Bible and still build your life on sand. In a story Jesus tells about two builders, the wise one isn't the person who knows the most, but the one who acts on what he's heard.

In the earliest centuries, the Greek word for “kind” sounded almost identical to the word for “Christ,” and the people following him were sometimes called the kind ones, because of how they cared for the poor and welcomed orphans. Kindness does the loving thing even when it’s uncomfortable, and it starts with a God who was kind to people long before they’d done anything to deserve it.

Nobody accidentally trains themselves to scroll for hours, but somehow reaching for a book on purpose feels like work. This ones about why a daily habit of time in the Bible matters more than it might seem, and offers five simple, practical steps for actually making it stick.

"None of them are like the Bible." That's the claim at the center of this conversation about the most printed, most translated, and most banned book in human history. What is the Bible? — where did it come from, who wrote it, and why over 900 English translations exist. Why does it matter if you read it once, or every day?

There's a moment in the middle of a storm when fear stops being about the wind and starts being about something else entirely. Jesus speaks two words that make the sea go completely still. And the disciples don't respond with relief — but with a different kind of fear. "Who is this man?"

Peter had fished all night and caught nothing. Then a carpenter he barely knew climbed into his boat, sat down, and told him to go back out and try again in broad daylight, exactly when the fish wouldn't be there. It made no sense. He did it anyway. What happened next changed the direction of his life. What would it look like to actually trust Jesus with your job?