By Allan Bevere It’s Never Too Late to Repent of Compromised Politics Now that the special Senate election in Alabama is over, it is time for some Christians on both sides of the political aisle to repent of selling their souls in exchange for temporal political power. Conservative Christians who supported Roy Moore in spite of the fact that there were numerous credible women accusing Moore of his sexual advances toward them when they were minors, need to repent of... Read more

Hugh Ross provides a clear description of his view of old-earth progressive creation in Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design. He has a high regard for the authority and inerrancy of Scripture, but this takes him in a direction quite different from that described by Ken Ham in the opening chapter. Ken Ham’s understanding of Scripture is shaped by his view of creation (perfect creation), fall, redemption and new creation. The manner in which he views this narrative... Read more

Not a few times I have recommended friends to read her but the come back, after reading one or two items, with a common sort of response: “Too dark, too weird, too violent. I don’t get the point. How can this be seen as Christian literature? Where’s the grace?” I’m speaking of Flannery O’Connor, whose short stories can never be absorbed in one reading. After a first reading, the response might be “Weird.” The second, “Weird but interesting.” After a... Read more

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The Parable of the Lost Sheep, by David Ayers Associate Preacher at the Golf Course Road Church of Christ. The crisis began when one sheep went missing. There seemed to be no reasonable explanation for the disappearance, which made it all the more disturbing for the ninety-nine sheep who remained in the Good Shepherd’s sheep-pen. The parents whispered their theories to one another, so as not to frighten the little lambs. “Perhaps a thief broke in at night and took her…”... Read more

For those of us who grew up in an Augustinian narrative of who we are, our identity is bad, sinful, corrupt, evil and rebellious. James Bryan Smith, in his new book The Magnificent Story, does not deny original sin but instead contends there’s a narrative at work that is bigger that we need to embrace. He begins the chp with a story about Rich Mullins, the Christian musician, and how Rich confessed to Jim his own story of sinfulness, both before his... Read more

Everyone suffers the same fate in the end. All die. Work, pleasure, money, power, wisdom – meaning is found in none of these. Read more

N.T. Wright’s big book on Jesus called Jesus and the Victory of God was turned into a more accessible book when he wrote The Challenge of Jesus and then later Simply Jesus, so when he wrote Paul and the Faithfulness of God many of us expected something similar: The Challenge of Paul or a Simply Paul. But that’s not what he’s done. His newest (and soon to be released) book is called Paul: A Biography and it is not an accessible version of Paul and the Faithfulness of God... Read more