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May 2024

May 16, 2024

February 2024

February 20, 2024

“He Saves Us”

The "He Gets Us" campaign is a major evangelistic initiative. Its SuperBowl ad has stirred...

June 2023

June 02, 2023

DISCUSSION: Reversing the Decline of Christianity in the U.S.

Religious affiliation is declining in the United States. How might we reverse that trend?

June 01, 2023

The Elder Brother Syndrome

Tim Keller, the former pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan who brought the Gospel...

April 2023

April 12, 2023

Should Churches Hide Their Controversial Beliefs?

Critics of the "He Gets Us" campaign and "seeker-sensitive" congregations are complaining that the people...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

DISCUSSION: How Should Christians Deal with Cultural Hostility?

What strategies and tactics should Christians take to resist today's hostility against Christianity and to...

July 2022

July 26, 2022

“Christianity Is More Than True”

Christianity is true. But it is not just head-knowledge, nor is it just heart-knowledge. Joshua Pauling...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

Reversing Religious Decline

Religion waxes and wanes in a culture and throughout history. It can fade away, but...

January 2020

January 03, 2020

Pope says, if you try to convert an unbeliever, you are “not a disciple of Jesus”

Pope Francis has said that Christians should not try to "convince" non-Christians to change their...

October 2019

October 09, 2019

How Shrinking and Broken Families Give Us Identity Politics

Mary Eberstadt, one of our most perceptive cultural analysts, shows how weakened family connections have...

January 2019

January 24, 2019

Marijuana and Religion

It looks like marijuana will soon be legalized everywhere. There is no organized opposition--not even...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

What about “Sheep-Stealing”?

Our recent post about proselytizing has gotten me thinking about "sheep-stealing." One kind of proselytizing...

July 30, 2018

In Defense of Proselytizing

Fellow Patheos blogger Mark Driscoll has written a long and thoughtful post on the teaching...

April 2018

April 02, 2018

Good Advice vs. Good News

The essence of Christianity is not good advice, but good news. And there is a...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

Graham’s Passing as the End of an Era

In addition to being the supreme evangelist, Billy Graham did much to establish evangelicalism as...

February 05, 2018

Why Don’t Churches Try to Reach the Biggest Demographic of the Unchurched?

My granddaughter invited a friend to church yesterday. She was nine years old and she...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

How Should Churches Respond to the New Findings about American Religion?

In our recent post "Only Moderate Religion Is On the Decline," we reported on new research...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

On the Threshold: Religious Liminals

Religion surveys ask you to check a box that describes your religious beliefs. But that...

September 18, 2017

A Reformation best-seller to read and give away

Luther's Small Catechism is a marvel of clarity, depth, and spiritual insight. Used for centuries to...

February 2017

February 16, 2017

A new approach to evangelism

The traditional approach to evangelism, according to Ed Stetzer of Christianity Today, has started with presenting...

October 2016

October 29, 2016

Subverting people’s need to constantly justify themselves

In the discussion of Michael Lockwood's new book The Unholy Trinity: Martin Luther against the Idol...

October 27, 2016

Reaching today’s idolaters of the self

How do you proclaim the forgiveness of sins to someone who doesn't think he has...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

Don’t give them the Gospel?

We often assume that if we could only find the right way to reach those...

March 2016

March 15, 2016

How Inner Mission evangelizes

As I've explained with my first trip to Scandinavia, Christianity in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

How Americans protect themselves from Christianity

Another brilliant analysis of the challenges facing American Christianity by James R. Rogers, Texas A&M...

November 2015

November 05, 2015

State church says not to evangelize Muslims

The Protestant state church in the Rhineland has issued a statement saying that Christians should...

September 2015

September 08, 2015

Muslim refugees converting to Christianity

Thousands of refugees from Syria--as well as Iran, Afghanistan, and other Islamic countries--have been pouring...

March 2015

March 26, 2015

Who the Unchurched Really Are

Most evangelism programs, church growth tactics, and other attempts to reach the "unchurched" concentrate on...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Evangelizing the condemned Nazis

Last year almost to the day we blogged about Rev. Henry Gerecke, the LCMS military...