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November 2020

November 23, 2020

Did Purity Culture Overstate the Danger of Sin?

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; but...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

Morality Doesn’t Need a Modifier

Two related habits of thought will render a Christian useless to his neighbors more quickly...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Dear Pastors: Stop Apologizing for the Sacraments

We’ve all been to this church service, and we all know what I’m talking about:...

January 2019

January 28, 2019

God Calls Masculinity ‘Very Good.’ Stop Caricaturing It.

A friend of mine on Facebook observed that there seems to be a new procedure...

January 07, 2019

Church Membership Isn’t Optional

I pick on millennials frequently, and that’s okay, because I happen to be one. But...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

Whose Face Did Mary Kiss? (A Reply to Douglas Wilson)

I think pastor Doug Wilson and I would agree that the Christmas song wars are...

November 2018

November 08, 2018

Talk About God, Even If You’re No Good at It

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article for the Federalist claiming that most American Christians...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

Jordan Peterson, Puddleglum, and What’s Too Good Not to Be True

This piece was originally published at BreakPoint.org. Would you believe in Christianity even if you...

October 25, 2018

Inerrancy Gives the Bible the Power To Tell Us Things We Don’t Like

Forty is a biblically significant number. It’s usually the duration of time—in days or years—of...

August 2018

August 15, 2018

The Bible Doesn’t Say Jesus Walked Through Locked Doors

There's a Christian truism we all grew up with that goes like this: Jesus walked...

April 2018

April 09, 2018

Biblical Illiteracy Isn’t Funny, It’s Scary

Last week biblical illiteracy in the news media was put on display like never before....

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Why Dying is Gain: A Review of ‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’

We in the West must constantly seek out reminders of what real hardship looks like....

March 13, 2018

The Deep-Heavenly Symbolism of Sex

Christianity really is the answer key to the human experience. This is nowhere truer than...

January 2018

January 24, 2018

No, C. S. Lewis Didn’t Teach a Ransom Atonement

One of the less astute canards in Reformed circles is the idea that C. S....

January 02, 2018

On Outliving the Stars: A Reflection from My Grandpa’s Funeral

A question has haunted us since we began dying: At the end of a man’s...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

We Are All Serpent-Crushers

In Christ, we are all Serpent-crushers.

December 19, 2017

R. C. Sproul: The Man Who Taught Me to Fear God

I first remember encountering R. C. Sproul while a student at “The Truth Project.” The...

December 11, 2017

Yes, Fellow Protestants, Mary is the Mother of God (It’s Good Christology)

Theotokos–Greek for “birth-giver of God,” or more simply, “Mother of God.” It’s a term that...

November 2017

November 07, 2017

Should Christians Carry Guns in Church?

Is it okay for Christians to bring weapons into church for self-defense?

October 2017

October 04, 2017

‘Scripture Alone’ Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

Have evangelicals taken sola scriptura too far?

September 2017

September 26, 2017

The Real Problem With the Sinner’s Prayer

I'm convinced evangelicals will never fully grasp the Gospel until they recognize that salvation is...

September 08, 2017

Dear Liberals: Jesus Didn’t Write the Red Letters

The red letters carry neither greater authority nor firmer textual certainty than the black.

September 01, 2017

Millennials, It’s Time To Retire the ‘Why I Left the Church’ Genre

Originally published at BreakPoint.org. This article from Faithit is characteristic—almost to the point of satire—of the...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

No, ‘Game of Thrones’ Nudity Isn’t ‘Meat Sacrificed to Idols’

Ah yes, the excuses Christians come up with for watching "Game of Thrones."

July 2017

July 07, 2017

Why Are Atheists Steamrolling Our Students?

Christians have pretty uniformly adopted a subjective, experience-centric, and distinctly postmodern outlook on their faith.

June 2017

June 12, 2017

Stop Calling Charity ‘Giving Back’

This has become the millennial way of saying "charity."

May 2017

May 02, 2017

Cremation and Face App: Why Symbols Matter

Burning and crushing a body into powder says something about it. It has symbolic significance,...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

There Will Be Child Murderers in Heaven

Today a Facebook friend of mine shared a snarky meme from an atheist page. It...

April 06, 2017

Should Christians Eat the Passover Seder? A Response to Christianity Today

Rabbis Yehiel Poupko and David Sandmel have an interesting piece in Christianity Today entitled, "Jesus...

April 05, 2017

AP Forgot the Resurrection – The Point

It’s time for remedial Christianity 101. Mainstream newspapers and networks are clumsy when it comes to...