- 01/20/2012
The Gospel in an Abortion Culture
As the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision approaches, most Christians recognize, and rightly so, the loss of millions of unborn human lives. What we often forget is the second casualty of an abortion culture: the consciences of countless men and women.
- 01/03/2012
The Next Billy Graham Might Be Drunk Right Now
Whenever I start to get discouraged about the future of the church, I remember a conversation I had a few years ago with evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry on what would turn out to be his last visit to Southern Seminary before his death.
12 comments - 12/26/2011
An Open Letter to a Newborn Son
Early on in your unborn life, a doctor told us he thought you would have Down Syndrome.
- 12/22/2011
Let's Stop Ignoring Joseph
I played a cow in my first-grade Christmas pageant, and I had more lines than the kid who played Joseph. He was a prop, or so it seemed, for Mary, the plastic doll in the manger, and the rest of us.
8 comments - 12/16/2011
Christopher Hitchens Might Be in Heaven
Christopher Hitchens, the world’s most famously caustic atheist, is now dead. Hitchens expected this moment, of course, but he anticipated, wrongly, a blackness, a going out of consciousness forever.
- 12/09/2011
Worry, Anxiety, and the Kingdom of Christ
I was a teenage Satanist. No, I’ve never stood in a pentagram of blood and I’ve never joined a coven.
7 comments - 12/06/2011
Women, Stop Submitting to Men
Those of us who hold to so-called “traditional gender roles” are often assumed to believe that women should submit to men. This isn’t true.
- 11/20/2011
What Forgiveness Is and Isn’t
The most difficult math problem in the universe, it turns out, is 70 x 7. Perhaps the hardest thing to do in the Christian life is to forgive someone who has hurt you, often badly. But Jesus says the alternative to forgiving one’s enemies is hell.
1 comments - 11/04/2011
Do You Know When You Were Saved?
Many believe if they really have embraced the gospel, they ought to have a moment, a date, they can point to as the instant they passed from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. Sometimes our churches reinforce this misunderstanding.
Tags Evangelicals - 10/30/2011
Seven Reasons Halloween Judgment Houses Often Miss the Mark
They’re not scary enough. To speak of hell, Jesus used the imagery of a garbage dump overun with worms, a place where babies were once sacrified to demons
- 10/14/2011
Don't Adopt!
If you want your “dream baby,” do not adopt or foster a child: buy a cat and make-believe. Adopting an orphan isn’t ordering a consumer item or buying a pet.
Tags Family issues - 09/30/2011
Pat Robertson Responds
Pat Robertson says his comments about divorce and Alzheimer’s disease were “misinterpreted.” The problem is, his clarification doesn’t clarify.
- 09/27/2011
Gospel or Justice, Which?
Some evangelicals talk as though personal evangelism and public justice are contradictory concerns, or, at least, that one is part of the mission of the church and the other isn’t. I think otherwise, and I think the issue is one of the most important facing the church these days.
- 09/15/2011
Christ, the Church, and Pat Robertson
This week on his television show Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said a man would be morally justified to divorce his wife with Alzheimer’s disease in order to marry another woman. Few Christians take Robertson all that seriously anymore. This is serious, though.
- 08/30/2011
Dungeons and Dragons and Doctrinal Debate
All too often, what we want is to be right, rather than to build up one another in the faith.
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