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January 2013

January 25, 2013

Does Religion Explains Why Americans Love White Cars?

Cars come in nearly any color we can imagine. So why do we buy them...

January 11, 2013

Sex as Natural Means to Commitment

Tim Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: The modern sexual revolution find the idea of abstinence till...

January 10, 2013

Thinking Like Jesus

R.C. Sproul on thinking like Jesus: Several years ago, I was asked to give a...

January 08, 2013

Religion is Wasted on the Young

Timothy Larsen, a Wheaton College professor, contemplates the significance of childlike faith: Christ calls us to...

January 04, 2013

The Buried Church

In 1943, a volcano began growing out of a cornfield in San Juan Parangaricutiro, Michoacán,...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Calvinism and the Seeker-Insensitive Church

In the quirky British online journal spiked, Dolan Cummings—“co-founder of the radical humanist campaign group the Manifesto...

December 12, 2012

Let ‘Em Have X-Mas, Mr. O’Reilly

Bill O’Reilly doesn't understand Christianity. Two weeks ago, O’Reilly said, “It is a fact that...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Why Did Jesus Come in 5 B.C.?

Consider two facts: God does not make arbitrary decisions and Christianity is a religion whose...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

What is a Christian?

Adrian Warnock argues that we should accept a suitably broad definition of what is a Christian:...

October 23, 2012

Does Theology Need Literature?

Martin Luther seemed to think so: I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology...

October 19, 2012

The Mask of God

The doctrine of vocation, a term that is just the Latin word for “calling,” deals...

October 18, 2012

Why Angelology Matters

Carol Zaleski discusses the necessity of of having a sound doctrine of angels: The venture of...

October 17, 2012

All Games are Eschatological

New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III on why Christians should develop a stronger theology of...

October 17, 2012

The Accountability of the Church Intellectual

In the journal Themelios, theologian Carl Trueman offers some sobering advice for students considering pursuing doctoral...

October 16, 2012

How Puritans Became Capitalists

In his book, Heavenly Merchandize, Mark Valeri, professor of church history at Union Presbyterian Seminary, finds...

October 16, 2012

Portion Distortion and the Last Supper

How much would Jesus eat? The answer—as determined by depictions of the last supper—vary by...

October 15, 2012

Religion is Wasted on the Young

"Perhaps when we think we are criticizing the narrow thinking of others," says Timothy Larsen,...

October 11, 2012

The Parable of Botox

Several years ago I encouraged my friend Hans Madume—a physician, theologian, and bioethicist—to provide me...

October 11, 2012

Your Emotions Are A Gauge, Not A Guide

God designed your emotions to be gauges, not guides. They’re meant to report to you,...

October 09, 2012

The General Motors Model of the American Church

Walter Russell Mead on the structural problems of the modern church: The Christian churches in the...

October 08, 2012

Why Bible-Lovers Should be Bibliophiles

Rick Ritchie argues that Bible-lovers should be bibliophiles: “. . . my call is not merely...

October 08, 2012

Sin and the Historian

John Fea on how Christian belief in human sin could influence the work of historians:...

October 05, 2012

Life is Like a Mansion with a Wallpaper-Covered Hole Leading to a Rhinoceros Covered with Millions of Mice or Why Are We So Busy?

In his Pensees, Blaise Pascal wrote, “I have often said that the sole cause of man’s...

October 04, 2012

Faith is Thinking

Faith according to our Lord’s teaching in [Matthew 6:30], is primarily thinking; and the whole...

October 04, 2012

Kierkegaard on the Bible

From Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard (edited by Charles Moore): The matter is quite simple. The Bible...