Just as very young children trust and depend on their parents, they can trust and depend on God. That is, they can have faith. Mary Moerbe (my daughter) has written a children's book--with wonderful illustrations by a former student of mine--that teaches the Trinity to toddlers.
Is secularism starting to lose its appeal? A European evangelist thinks so, citing five specific failures of secularism that secularists are realizing. These, he says, are leading some of them to rediscover Christianity. This ties into my book "Post-Christian."
I'm interested in Christian art, and I just became aware of a remarkable--and twisted--example. "The Triumph of Faith over Heresy" in Rome targets Martin Luther and celebrates the burning of heretics.
When Christianity has the active support of the government, it declines. When it faces competition from other religions, it grows. When it faces persecution, it grows even more dramatically. Those are the findings of a large-scale international study
Some are hailing the CDC's new ruling that the vaccinated no longer need to wear masks or practice social distancing as V-C Day: Victory over COVID-19. New research shows that the vaccines work even better than expected. Donald Trump deserves credit for their fast development. And why the USA leads much of the rest of the world in getting people vaccinated.
American evangelicals and other conservative Christians are agonizing over the extent to which they should get involved in politics. But evangelicals are having a big political impact in Ukraine, even though they are only 2% of the population. They have a reputation for integrity and are working in nearly all of the political parties, thus magnifying their influence.
For the fourth year in a row, Finland is ranked as the happiest country in the world. So why do Finns and other Scandinavians rate so happy when they are also notoriously gloomy? A Finnish immigrant tries to explain, suggesting that their Lutheran heritage has something to do with it.
Andrew T. Walker recognizes the problems with cultural Christianity. But he argues that it's not healthy for the church to become completely unmoored from the culture and that Christianity's influence on the culture has been a good thing.
Many people today reject "institutional" religion and the "institutional church." Do they have a point? Can Christianity's institutions and its institutional interests work against the Christian faith?
Among the plethora of marriage variations available today, we now have people who are marrying their best friends, with sex not entering into the marriage at all.
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