Regnerus conducted eminently defensible scientific research, making decisions about research design and analysis “within the ball park of what other credible and distinguished researchers have been doing within the past decade.  We should conclude that where accusations of an ideological axe to grind are concerned, they should not be directed at Regnerus, but at his... Continue Reading

“Who’ll be the first reporter to ask President Obama how he’ll explain to his daughters why he approved a TV ad equating voting for him to having sex?”  –Mollie Hemingway, Media Critic     Forget the fact that a sitting president has his name on it. Forget the fact that the overall message lacks meaningful... Continue Reading

One look at W. L. Lumpkin’s Baptist Confessions of Faith shows clearly how inept is the statement often heard nowadays: “Baptists are not a creedal people!” In fact they may well have produced more creeds than any other Christian denomination.     Every person has a natural desire to express the major features of his... Continue Reading

Ultimately our inheritance is Jesus and the riches in him. We’ll enjoy this inheritance forever and ever. The things of this world tarnish, fade, break and rot but God’s inheritance will be as delightful 10,000 years from now as it will be the day we receive it.   On July 8, 1974, Chuck Colson went... Continue Reading

There’s a more fundamental and foundational life than the Christian life: that is, “creature life.” Before we are Christians, we are creatures; before God is our Savior, He is our Creator. And He’s not just made us, but in His Word (via sound interpretation) and in His world (via sound scientific research), He instructs us... Continue Reading

We might have to wait until Heaven to learn of Reformation heroes from Columbia, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Japan, and India, but we can be sure that wherever God is growing His church, He is also raising up gifted men and women to proclaim the riches of God’s grace in Christ. It is helpful to look back on the European Reformation and thank God for it. Let’s make sure we don’t idealize it or think that it was a one-time occurrence–the same sorts of things are happening right now.

Everyone has an eschatology. The believer, the atheist, the agnostic, the Hindu—everyone has to give an account for how evil is going to be dealt with. The question isn’t whether people have an eschatology, but whether it is a compelling and coherent eschatology

Fathers were also more likely to encourage children’s risk taking—whether on the playground, in school work, or in trying new things. While mothers typically discouraged risk-taking, fathers guided their children in deciding how much risk to take and encouraged them in it.   Are mothers and fathers more or less the same? Do mothers “father”... Continue Reading

A conservative evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up for the church’s “Fall Festival.” A confessional evangelical is a fundamentalist whose kids dress up as Zwingli and Bucer for “Reformation Day.”

I think Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) and similar efforts to make common cause with Roman Catholics are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of where the Roman Catholic Church is theologically and what it actually teaches.