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April 2014

April 20, 2014

Is the Resurrection essential to Christian belief?

Just 42 percent of Americans identify the resurrection of Jesus as the point of Easter,...

January 2014

January 11, 2014

What Barton and Copeland get wrong about war and faith

In this video Kenneth Copeland and David Barton argue that soldiers returning from war should...

January 10, 2014

George Orwell and bending the Bible for our own purposes

Florence King once called George Orwell “Every conservative’s favorite liberal and every liberal’s favorite conservative.”...

January 06, 2014

Doh! Archbishop of Canterbury forgets what it means to become a Christian

While undertaking a revision of the traditional christening (or baptismal) service, the Church of England...

December 2013

December 18, 2013

Read this before you burn that picture of Jesus

Around Christmas time it's impossible to avoid pictures of Jesus. But Megan Hill is still...

December 02, 2013

Why did God create us? Consider the orange peel

Though some orange varieties favor the late spring, most ripen in the fall and winter....

August 2013

August 01, 2013

Is God a king or a congressman?

The scriptures speak of God as a king. Christians in the ancient East and medieval...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

Sinéad O’Connor, Anne Lamott, and the many names of God

Sinéad O’Connor is bringing the gospel to the Lincoln Center Festival, presenting a set of...

July 23, 2013

Cherry picking the Bible? Yes and no

There's been a little dustup recently about people supposedly "cherry picking" the Bible. Holy writ,...

July 22, 2013

Cormac McCarthy and all the broken children of God

Spend any time reading the news, driving the interstates, or peering into the recesses of...

July 05, 2013

Prince talks religion, says we’re not one big happy family

Pop icon Prince recently gave an interview to V Magazine writer Vanessa Grigoriadis. When it...

June 2013

June 15, 2013

One forgotten Bible study tool every Christian needs

Everyone's got a Bible, or twelve. We've got access to commentaries, dictionaries, and other lexical...

June 10, 2013

If you could Instagram God, what would he look like?

Downtown Nashville features a full-size reproduction of the Parthenon, a temple for the Greek goddess...

June 09, 2013

Angels, demons, and C.S. Lewis

I'm profoundly honored to be featured in this week's Breakpoint with John Stonestreet. Cornelius Plantinga...

June 04, 2013

Why are there dirty stories in the Bible?

Anyone who's read the Bible to children or come at it with some naivety knows...

May 2013

May 14, 2013

My problem with ‘Life of Pi’

Megan and I finally got around to watching Life of Pi. It's a beautifully filmed...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

The harrowing of hell and the victory of Christ

We read in the Apostle's Creed that Jesus “descended into hell.” Some Christians today are...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Does God stack the deck against us?

There is a curious passage in Matthew's gospel in which Jesus rebukes several cities. "Woe...

January 04, 2013

Sen. Mark Kirk, his angels, and ours

Having suffered a life-threatening stroke, Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk laid in his hospital bed unconscious...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Why apostolic tradition matters, part 2

It seems that every time a supposedly "lost gospel" is unearthed the media hypes it...

December 26, 2012

Why apostolic tradition matters, part 1

How do know if a particular doctrine is true or false? What defines the boundaries...

December 24, 2012

The real story of the Christmas angels

Luke tells us that on the night Jesus was born, shepherds near Bethlehem were watching...

December 21, 2012

What a stomach bug taught me about Christmas

It started the the day before with Felicity puking. Then Fionn came down with it....

December 19, 2012

In Christ we ascend beyond the angels

It is sometimes easy to focus on how sinful we are. Our frailty and failings...

December 13, 2012

Is the virgin birth really predicted in the Old Testament?

Did the Old Testament prophet Isaiah actually predict that Mary would conceive Christ while still...

December 11, 2012

Angels: Friends of the faithful

Jacob wasn't hanging around long. After scheming his brother out of the family blessing, he...

November 2012

November 15, 2012

‘Proof of Heaven’ echoes ancient insights

Since I originally posted this piece, Esquire has published an exposé of Eben Alexander, very...

November 09, 2012

Where you go to meet with God

During the Last Supper the disciple Philip asked Jesus show him God. "Lord," he said,...

August 2012

August 09, 2012

Angels and the promise of a bigger world

Some people want the Bible to be untrue. Mmm, scratch that. Some people desperately want...

August 07, 2012

What the light of Christ teaches us

At the start of his gospel, John refers to Christ as "[t]he true light that...