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October 2025

October 07, 2025

Evangelicals’ Theological Illiteracy

A new study of the beliefs of evangelicals shows an alarming level of theological illiteracy.

May 2025

May 28, 2025

The Nicene Creed & Worship

On the occasion of the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed, a patristics scholar explains...

February 2025

February 20, 2025

The Authority for Liberal Theology

As Roger Olson has shown, "the best of modern thought," not the Bible, is the...

March 2024

March 01, 2024

Why Protestants Convert to Catholicism

Some Protestants convert to Catholicism, according to a recent book, because of the failures of...

January 2024

January 17, 2024

Carl Trueman: Lessons from Lutheranism

Carl Trueman is a Reformed theologian who has become one of our best cultural critics....

October 2023

October 31, 2023

95 Theses for Today

Today's churches are also in need of a Reformation, and others have put together lists...

September 2023

September 15, 2023

Most Protestants Believe in the Prosperity Gospel

A study from the Baptist research group Lifeway has found that most Protestants, both evangelical...

January 2023

January 16, 2023

The Non-Denominational Denomination

Now that "non-denominational" churches are the largest segment of American protestantism, some say that church...

October 2022

October 28, 2022

DISCUSS: What Reforms Does the Church Need Today?

What about the church today could use "reformation"? That is, what needs reforming in the...

August 2022

August 04, 2022

Deconstructing Faith and the Theology of the Cross? (part 1)

Many Christians today--especially evangelicals--say that they are in the process of "deconstructing" their faith, scrutinizing...

January 2022

January 28, 2022

The Metaverse Gives Us Metachurch

Now we have churches in the metaverse, in which the avatars of worshippers meet in...

November 2021

November 19, 2021

The Catechesis Problem

American evangelicalism today is plagued with scandals, politics, moral failures, and a confused message. This...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

The Four Distinctives of the Reformation

For Reformation Day, the four ways the Reformation differed from Catholicism and the myth of...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

Not just “Nones” but “Nons”

America's religious landscape is being reshaped not only by the "Nones," those who have no...

June 04, 2021

Biblical Worldview Crisis?

A study has found that only 6% of Americans and only 9% of Christians have...

May 2021

May 11, 2021

Christianity vs. Christendom?

Many people today reject "institutional" religion and the "institutional church." Do they have a point? ...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Christ as Our Substitute

Many contemporary Christians are drawing back from the doctrine of the substitutionary atonement--that Christ bore...

April 23, 2021

What They Are Saying About “Spirituality of the Cross,” 3rd edition

The new edition of my book "Spirituality of the Cross" has been endorsed by some...

April 22, 2021

Why the New Edition of “Spirituality of the Cross” Is Needed Today

To explain why I think this new edition of my book "Spirituality of the Cross"...

April 21, 2021

The New, Improved Edition of “Spirituality of the Cross”

The third edition of my most popular and impactful book, "Spirituality of the Cross," has...

October 2020

October 30, 2020

Reforming the Church around the Gospel

Reformation Day is about "re-forming" the Church; that is, to return to its "substantial form"...

June 2020

June 04, 2020

The Newest Church Growth Paradigm: Digital Church

The epidemic has forced churches to resort to online services. But now some church growth...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Reforming Today’s Church

Reforming means fixing what is broken, returning something to its essence. The contemporary church today,...

September 2019

September 20, 2019

The Problem with Rebranding the Church

Hans Fiene of Lutheran Satire outdoes himself with Mr. Thompson and the Vicar Rebrand.

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Reformation Then and Now

The Church is discredited: plagued by corruption, including sex scandals. Trusting human leaders whose failures...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

How Pervasive Is the Prosperity Gospel?

One of the most prominent heresies of contemporary Christianity is the prosperity gospel, which teaches...

October 2017

October 10, 2017

Tebow the Missionary Kid & Kaepernick the Lutheran Confirmand

These two kneeling football players represent two strains of Christianity in America.

August 2017

August 04, 2017

The new “prophets” and “apostles”

There is a new movement in contemporary Christianity, known as the "New Apostolic Reformation" or...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

The hippie connection to contemporary Christianity

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" and the rise of the Hippie...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Engaging vs. accommodating the culture

My longtime friend, the Rev. Harold Senkbeil, has an article in the latest Concordia Journal...