After my treatise on reason, there are still some lingering questions: if reason is all that it's cracked up to be, why do so many people disagree? Why do peopl...
Jesus’ insistence that “the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45, Matthew 20:28) is a peren...
Tim Challies’ article “Show All History” in Christianity Today, reminds us of AOL’s disastrous mishap in 2006. Dr. Abdur Chowdhury accidentally released to the ...
I was spurred by the recent debate about baptism on the Fish Tank to think in more general terms about how to connect spiritual movements—repentance, salvation,...
I don’t like to watch mushy dramas. But during my mandatory quarantine period in Beijing this summer, I sat in my hotel for three days doing just that. Little d...
Now that we've looked at the external benefits of being reasonable, we must explore why it is important internally for one's spiritual development. For this, I'...
For the first two parts in this series, see here and here.
NICK
“God’s gracious giving to faith belongs to the context of baptism, even as God’s gracious gi...
Based on discussion in the comments of the most recent edition of Nick's discussion of baptism with me, I thought it would be worthwhile to clarify what exact...
Russell Shorto's article "How Christian Were the Founders?", a piece discussing the religious revisions being made to textbooks by the Texas school board, has h...
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved? Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but ...