An open home displays Christian love but it also enables it. Hospitality creates opportunities for relationship, for discipleship, and for evangelism. It creates a natural context for modeling marriage, parenting, and a host of Christian virtues. While we are to teach others what the Bible says, we are also to demonstrate what it says, and... Continue Reading

After spending hours studying and memorizing formulas for calculations, young Bettinger showed up to find that the exam was nothing but a blank sheet of paper. “The professor said, ‘I’ve taught you everything I can teach you about business in the last 10 weeks,” he recalled. “But the most important message, the most important question,... Continue Reading

I learned through my heart surgery that the “ordinary” gestures of care we extend to others really become extraordinary in lives of those who are sick or are in recovery. Recovery is an odd condition: not sick anymore, but certainly not well. For me, the big challenges have been incredible weakness, dizziness, lack of mental... Continue Reading

Although Brown University President Christina Paxson sought to mollify student protestors with a 19-page proposal accompanied by a $100 million plan a for a more “just and inclusive campus,” students still weren’t happy. Justice Gaines, a student who uses the pronouns xe, xem and xyr, found it necessary to aid peers in coping with their... Continue Reading

Even if you and your partner have been having some heated arguments lately, it doesn’t mean you’re headed for disaster. “Relationships die by ice rather than fire,” says McNulty. “Some couples eventually stop trying to dialogue. They find working on key conflicts to be too difficult or painful. They give up. They grow more distant,... Continue Reading

“It’s common sense,” Pacquiao told the TV5 network, speaking in his native language in a video shared online. “Do you see animals mating with the same sex? Animals are better because they can distinguish male from female. If men mate with men and women mate with women, they are worse than animals.” A Nike spokesperson... Continue Reading

“I don’t know why he’d hide [his history with Mars Hill], or think that he could,” said Warren Throckmorton, a psychology professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania and perhaps the most prominent of a handful of fastidious religion bloggers who have documented the particulars of Driscoll’s troubles. “Given that he built his brand on... Continue Reading

‘Celebrations of life’ and funeral liturgies which choose ‘My Way’ or ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ are interesting phenomena because they reflect the metaphysical superficiality of this present age and our childish inability to face up to the seriousness of death even when it is staring us in the face. They also... Continue Reading

The new sexual morality did not emerge from a vacuum. Massive intellectual changes at the worldview level over the last 200 years set the stage for the revolution in which we currently find ourselves. We are living in times rightly, if rather awkwardly, described as the Late Modern Age. Just a decade ago, we spoke... Continue Reading

Probably the thing I appreciate most about Dr. Ryrie was his zeal for evangelism. We only met because of his determination to share the gospel with the lifeguards where he swam. No matter who was on duty, Dr. Ryrie was coming at them with the message of Jesus Christ crucified and raised for sinners. And... Continue Reading