“Faith is being exalted so high today that men are being satisfied with any kind of faith, just so it is faith. It makes no difference what is believed, we are ...
Over the holidays I sat down to read through George Lindbeck’s justly famous The Nature of Doctrine, published in 1984. Rarely can I remember a book stirring u...
What do we mean when we say that God is omnipotent? Can an omnipotent being exist?
Some time ago, an atheist friend (who subsequently became a Christian) prese...
*I've recently been teaching through a biblical perspective on sexuality and relationships in our Harvard college ministry, and wanted to share my (incomplete) ...
America is assumed to be different. We are different because Christianity is thought still to thrive in America. Whereas Christianity is allegedly dying in Euro...
Samir Paul, Harvard
Let us reframe the question: Do we take the hope of Christ seriously enough actually to trust in it?
Nonviolence is a consequence of heari...
The newest issue of the Ichthus is out (go read it if you haven’t already!), and it’s brimming with interesting articles. I was especially fascinated by Stanley...
This summer, I thought a lot about the problem of foreknowledge and free will. If God knows what we're going to do beforehand - as certainly seems to be the...
Imperfection everywhere.
God's creation is very good - but not perfect. Our bodies age and rot; our homes and belongings perish. Moth and rust destroy; t...
The Bible and the Word of God: are the two synonymous? Many Christians would say that they are; and if the Bible is the Word of God, how could they not be?
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