A friend writes: I have been asked to say grace at our company’s anniversary dinner.  It is a secular Canadian company.  The people who...

Friends and students have asked what I think about The Manhattan Declaration. Not all friends or students have asked, to be sure! Indeed,...

Monday morning, May 25, a trial begins that will make history in Canada with reverberations for the worldwide Anglican Communion. Four...

It may not be obvious at first glance, but President Barack Obama is a lot like me. We both used to live in Hyde Park and  attend the...

We all now know about the city bus ad campaigns, first started in Britain by secularists who encouraged readers that “There’s probably no...

Can Christian organizations insist that their employees believe Christian doctrines and practice Christian ethics? Not as often as they...

(I know I just wrote I have to sign off until the New Year, but I just can’t help myself this morning…) Over the last several decades,...

For those of you in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and particularly in the Vancouver area, here are a couple of events this...

I discuss a number of recent books by American evangelicals on politics in Christianity Today magazine here. I also take some time to...

One of Jesus’ most unexpected and difficult commands comes to mind as both Canada and the United States are embroiled in elections, and...

The question I set before myself today is the one I threw out a few days ago to y’all, namely, what does it say about American...

I’ve been struck in the exchanges some of us have been having about American politics (see the previous entry and comments) about the...

…well, what else is there to say?

Gilles Duceppe, head of the Bloc Québecois (the separatist party in the Canadian province of Quebec), is fuming that Nicole Charbonneau...

Überblogger Scot McKnight, Professor of New Testament at North Park in Chicago and an indefatigable and highly esteemed writer, editor,...

Over the last few weeks, various Christians have contacted me because they are troubled over encountering my name amidst dozens of other...

An article in this month’s Commentary, by Peter Wehner and Yuval Levin, speaks of “Crimes, Drugs, and Welfare–and Other Good News.”...

Politicians, we all know, are among the least respected people in our society. We assume the worst about them and nod our heads sagely as...

Being a “red-letter Christian” sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Tony Campolo, professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University,...

The great province of Ontario, Canada’s richest and most populous, is in the throes of an election. As many Canadians know, one of the...