I don’t get enough attention. You might think I do, but I don’t. Do you? I’ll bet you don’t, either. Some people get more attention than...

Having spent considerable effort demonstrating that American evangelicals are not as bad as some people (including prominent American...

One of the most beloved features of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the “Collect,” the prayer that unites the voices of the...

A few posts ago, I enjoyed writing to you about Steve Bell’s grandmother as described in a story by Steve and a song by Carolyn Arends,...

Life here, now, is about life here, now, and also about the life here, then. We Christians live in the hope of the Second Coming of...

This post comes in response to people who raise a perennial issue, that of whether Christians should be concerned only with...

I’m very much enjoying David Jeffrey’s edition of Walter Hilton‘s 14C spiritual writings. Today I came across this parable and wanted you...

I’ve been reading the fourteenth-century spiritual advisor Walter Hilton of late. He seems just the right sort of advisor: realistic,...

The following is my latest contribution to the “Ask John” feature of Wondering Fair, a blog led by Regent College graduates around the...

Many of us wonder, particularly in the face of evil, why an omnipotent God didn’t just do things differently–you know, the way you and I...

Here in Upland, Indiana, I’ve been told by reliable people at Taylor University that many, many of their young women come to college with...

Here is the link to my latest Faith Today column, which considers how many Christian organizations have weathered (or not) the recent...

…would we be ready to respond? My most recent column in Faith Today notes that the New Atheists raise Old Questions that can be answered...

I published a version of the following article in tribute to Clark H. Pinnock on the occasion of his retirement some years ago. Clark...

Here’s a recent e-mail: I came across an old web blog of yours that talks about parachurches (or as you call them paracongregationals). ...

Philip Doddridge (1702-1751) was one of the leading lights of the 18C revival, a protegé of Isaac Watts whose writing helped convert...

George Steiner concludes his coruscating (if sometimes also dazzling, in both senses of the word) Lessons of the Masters with this...

Regent Audio is making available my recent chapel talk on suffering as a free download here. I hope some of you will find it worthwhile....

I used to hug and tickle my cousins Kent and Jeannie when I was a Bible school student in Edmonton and lived with their parents for that...

Last December my family and I moved to North Vancouver, to a house surrounded by trees on the shoulder of Mount Seymour. Settlement ends...