For those of us who identify ourselves as evangelical Christians, evangelism is unapologetically central to our sense of mission in life under God. We may not ...
The western part of China, including Henan Province, where I stayed for a week, is poor. Poor in America is one thing—back-road little towns in the Appalachians...
“What counts is not so much our knowledge of God as God’s knowledge of us. That is the syntax of salvation.” (Richard Hays)
For the last post in Nick's serie...
(N.B.: The term "fundamentalist" is almost always used pejoratively to connote particularly annoying or ignorant Christians. I do not mean to use it in this sen...
On Tuesday, a group of atheists filed a lawsuit to prohibit the engraving of "In God We Trust" on the new Capitol Visitor Center. As a former atheist once enrag...
This past week I had the opportunity to visit the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, China, which is a Buddhist monastery. My time there was rich in thought-prov...
An Introduction
I was talking recently with a friend who grew up in the Church but eventually fell away from Christian faith, and she said something deeply trou...
God is funny sometimes. Here’s how we know:
Exhibit A: The Israelites in the desert.
The Hebrews have grown weary of God’s ceaseless provision because all t...
And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, ...
Most of us have heard of "God of the gaps" arguments, arguments that argue for the existence of God from "gaps" in the scientific record. If Science cannot expl...