The conflict between science and Christian faith is often cast in terms of relatively simple questions of origins. Was creation accomplished in 6 days or billions of years? Can evolution explain the diversity of life or are there significant problems requiring an intelligent designer? Is Adam a unique historical individual, progenitor of the entire human race? These are questions for which we can expect scientific answers. The earth is billions of years old and life (at least unicellular life) has... Read more

Ashifa Kassam: Canadian police ended up pursuing a suspect attempting to flee the alleged scene of a crime on an ice floe. Earlier this week, the Royal Canadian Mounted police of Prince George, a city in British Columbia, were called to the scene of an alleged home invasion in a nearby rural community. By the time they arrived, the suspect had already taken off in a pickup truck. Police managed to track down the vehicle she was driving, but the... Read more

Would you like to deepen your ability to teach, preach, and write for your church context? Do you have a desire to take your church into the rich perspective of the New Testament? This Fall I am launching an innovative Master of Arts in New Testament degree (MANT) at Northern Seminary that will provide grounding in the theology that emerges from the first century context of the New Testament writings. Location is no longer an obstacle to take part in this cutting edge... Read more

You can connect with Nika @NikaMaples and You can sign up for monthly encouragement from her at www.nikamaples.com. “I never wanted to become a teacher,” I said, smiling. That is not the most romantic thing someone could say to the state teacher of the year judging panel. Most of the candidates for the Texas Teacher of the Year award say that teaching has always been in the their blood. They say their mother was a teacher. Their father was a... Read more

Nijay Gupta has a brief response to Carson’s new fat edited book on Scripture: Truth be told, when I was in seminary, I held Dr. DA Carson in the highest of admiration – he was a reputable biblical scholar, a man of the church, and intrepid defender of evangelicalism. I don’t know if he has changed, or if I have changed (probably the latter), but I was profoundly disappointed with his recent work The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures –... Read more

Kris and I spent a delightful two days with the folks at New Covenant Church in Champaign, IL. where I spoke on topics from my book, Fellowship of Differents. So piled into our car and drove down — it is always a pleasure for Kris and me to drive through America’s heartland of farms, prairies and flat expanses. This was the second time in a few years that we have been invited to be with the good people at New... Read more

Carl Trueman: I’m thinking @fitchest will like this one. Reading Janik and Toulmin’s Wittgenstein’s Vienna a few years ago, I was struck at how oblivious the last generation of the Austro-Hungarian empire were to the imminent collapse of their world. One might say they kept waltzing up to the very moment that they suddenly found they could waltz no more. Yet all around them their world was slowly but surely coming to an end. From the surrounding European politics to... Read more

Several weeks ago I started a series of posts looking at the question of biblical womanhood. You can find the earlier posts in the series here (1) Biblical Womanhood … Not What Many Think, (2) Biblical Womanhood … The New Testament (3)  All Authority in Heaven and on Earth and (4) By Their Fruit You Will Know Them. My contention is that our only true authority is God, with all authority given to Jesus. God calls who he will, when... Read more

By Chad Thornhill, author of The Chosen People: Election, Paul and Second Temple Judaism. Election is an idea and a doctrine that confuses many, delights others, and divides the church. For some it is the ultimate expression of God’s sovereignty while for others it is the ultimate expression of divine arbitrariness and injustice. The issue for us in this series by an expert on election is What does the Bible actually say? This second post by Chad offers five corrections... Read more