If you trace the history of art and music in America, both used to be far superior. Paintings, sculptures, architecture, and music were better. Think also about Christian music. Has it gotten better or worse as time has gone on? Most of the best hymns that we have are old. Much of the modern Christian... Continue Reading

Confronted by an intellectual world for which they are not prepared, Christian college students are leaving behind their faith in worrying numbers.   Well, it just happened for the third time. This past week, I dropped off my last child at college. As might be expected, there were lots of emotions. Excitement, nervousness, fear. And... Continue Reading

The picture of a persistent conflict between science and faith is bad history. When we revisit the past to look at actual scientists and actual theologians, when we observe what they thought and said about science and faith, we discover that science and Christianity have had a more complex relationship—diverse, subtle, surprising, tangled, and messy. ... Continue Reading

Christianity and the New Eugenics is a deep philosophical probe, not least about how we value the life of our neighbour and that of (future) children. Its author ably pinpoints the horns of the dilemma upon which society finds itself: all people are equal, but some people are more equal than others.   Evangelical Christian Dr... Continue Reading

Seeing God’s purpose in creating people with disabilities in Exodus 4 and noticing Jesus’s purpose in healing people with disabilities helps provide guardrails for our own thinking about disabilities. They are not accidental or without purpose. They are not a result of our sin or God’s apathy.    Building a Theology of Disability The Bible... Continue Reading

In the service of love, we want to get (and keep) our bodies, depending on our season of life, in the condition needed to serve God’s callings on us to love others. We want to be the kind of people who desire to do good for others, knowing that such good often requires exerting our... Continue Reading

Lewis’s satirical approach brilliantly highlights how easily believers are distracted by mundane realities, worldly concerns, and superficial spirituality, forgetting their true spiritual destiny.   In his 64-page fiction, C.S. Lewis satirises the world of evil through the conversations and letters shared between two demons, employing irony, wit, and an imaginative inversion. Screwtape, a chief demon,... Continue Reading

Christian apologist Lee Strobel offers high personal commendation of Compelled by stating: “I love this book! The compelling stories of God’s intervention into unlikely lives inspired me, encouraged me, and motivated me to continue sharing His message of grace with others.”   Recently I read an outstanding, newly published book entitled Compelled: Ordinary People, Extraordinary God, which... Continue Reading

I believe that a recovery of the spirituality of the church could allow us to enhance and better live in unity, while our diversities may be properly appreciated and don’t seem to undermine that true unity. So, the spirituality of the Church reminds us that our focus needs to be on evangelism and discipleship and... Continue Reading

“If Peter was indeed given authority over the whole church; if his successors, the bishops of Rome, have the same authority; if God has providentially preserved an unbroken succession … then it is reasonable to expect that all popes would meet the basic New Testament standard for bishops, or at the very least be persons... Continue Reading