In which we conclude the “battle of the books” between my God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life (Focal Point) and Ben Witherington’s Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor and also get into some other issues: WITHERINGTON: Why do both Jesus and Paul talk about rewards
Steve Schwolert asked me, “What do you know about Taizé?” Not much, I said. I know that it is a religious monastic-kind of community in Europe. I know that they have liturgical music that is kind of modern and folky, but quite reverent and liturgical-sounding.
A new religion is born. The concept of the “singularity” used to be a dream of technology, the notion that exponentially-growing computing power would reach a point at which machines would become more intelligent than human beings. But now the hypothetical Singularity is being invested
More of my debate with Ken Witherington, author of Work: A Kingdom Perspective on Labor, which takes issue with what I say about vocation in God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in All of Life (Focal Point): WITHERINGTON: Let’s take one of these issues where we
Tom Gilson observes the shift that has taken place among those who reject the exclusive claims of the Christian faith: The world has a big problem with Christian exclusivism—the belief that there is one God uniquely revealed in Jesus Christ, who is the one way,
Since the 1970s, 163 million girl babies have been killed by abortion because their parents have wanted sons. Jonathan Last reviews a book on the subject: Mara Hvistendahl is worried about girls. Not in any political, moral or cultural sense but as an existential
Someone asks me a few weeks ago if anyone ever disagreed with what I have written about vocation. I said, not really. I have presented on that topic to a wide variety of groups who hold to all kinds of different theologies and everyone seems
Is today’s information technology a revolutionary force or the opiate of the people? The verdict is mixed in the Middle East uprisings: Two years ago, Iranian activists used social media sites as engines to organize massive anti-government demonstrations. But now, activists say, the limitless freedoms
My wife had a meeting in Lynchburg, Virginia, last week, so I tagged along. While she was busy, I explored. I went to Appomattox Court House to see where the Civil War ended. (Did you know that Appomattox Court House is not the name of
Check out this site from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, which gives rankings and assessments of the level of “freedom” in each state in the union. According to these findings, New Hampshire (“Live free or die!”) is the state with the most freedoms,
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