My last post answered questions from Down Under about why we should trouble ourselves to try to answer life’s most troubling questions:...

Did Jesus really die on a cross merely to inspire honorable, but otherwise unremarkable, lives?

What would our understanding of gender look like, however, if we took the “already, but not yet” principle seriously?

Jesus Revolution is a good film. Not great, but not bad, either. Professor Stackhouse wonders, though, about the hole in the middle, where

Daniel Silliman, news editor at Christianity Today magazine, recently took on some big leaguers without, alas, making much contact....

Even the movements under Gandhi and King provoked tremendous violence and highly ambiguous outcomes

Today is the Feast of St. John the Evangelist. You will appreciate that I have some affinity with and affection for a Christian writer...

Mark 14:22-25 isn’t a typical Advent passage, but it provides a few clues about the coming of the Lord: “While they were eating, Jesus...

Observation: If you hear the first nine, it doesn’t matter about the tenth. The conversation is already over. Only politics remains.

In his popular recent novel, The Order, thriller writer Daniel Silva decides in the name of Judaism to launch a missile at Christianity....

I’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...

A few friends have seen this post on Facebook and asked me to re-post it here to make it easier for them to share. Franklin Graham...

Christianity has what I sometimes call a “double weirdness problem.” Elements of its teaching that are truly strange—such as the...

Self-declared atheist Gretta Vosper held on to her pulpit in the United Church of Canada last week as denominational executives decided...

Exactly zero news agencies would bother reporting that a local man encountered a dog who didn’t bite him, as he had feared it would, but...

Since most people who invite speakers (and the same goes for musicians, I daresay) are not themselves professional speakers, and...

When someone sits down to specify orthodoxy, he is up to something. Count on it.

[NOTE: This originally appeared in Geez (Winter 2012): 38-39. I sent a copy to a friend recently, and it made me think others might like...

As the time for Tenebrae (Latin “darkness”) services has come again, one thinks of the shrinking circle of light in the Passion narrative...