A soft liberation theology, with nuances and spectrum at both ends of what liberation theology is, has taken a deep hold among America’s progressive Christians and I see it running right through much of evangelicalism as well. (Often unnoticed by many and often supported vigorously by others.) These are not critiques; these are observations about what I see. This post is about someone else’s take on liberation theology and its potential for the global church. Perhaps the presence of liberation... Read more

Lamenting Sin, by Joe James Scrolling through my Newsfeed on Social Media is gut-wrenching exercise for me.  It sometimes feels like a who’s-who list of people Christians despise.   Latest on our hit-list is Beyonce, Cam Newton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Hilary Clinton, Kanye West and Johnny Football.   We love to judge.  But the problem is not that Christians practice judging.  The problem is that Christians practice judging the wrong things. This is the final post in a short series on... Read more

Kingdom Conspiracy in Korean! Wish I could read the endorsements. Read more

Lindsey Bever: Anubis’s hell was real. Animal rescuers speculate that the Egyptian street dog may have been trying to protect his territory in the Cairo suburbs or was perhaps guarding property from trespassers. He started to bark — and wouldn’t stop. So someone silenced him. “They cut off the muzzle to stop him from barking,” Lauren Connelly, foster coordinator for Special Needs Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation (SNARR), told The Washington Post. The dog’s face was forever maimed — nose severed, teeth... Read more

The awe of science … and a pastor’s take on the Big Story. No doubt you’ve seen the story. LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, came back online in September and detected gravity waves emanating from the collapse of of two black holes into one more than a billion years ago. Two interferometers with arms 2.5 miles long, one in Louisiana and the other in Washington State saw the clear signature 7 milliseconds apart. This was the culmination of decades... Read more

From Arise Amy Rasmussen Buckley pursued graduate studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and George Fox Evangelical Seminary where she graduated with an MDiv in 2010. She has contributed to conferences and publications sponsored by Peace and Safety in the Christian Home (PASCH), including Strengthening Families and Ending Abuse: Churches and Their Leaders Look to the Future (pending publication by Wipf and Stock this summer). Amy is a board member of Life Together International and lives in Palm Harbor, Florida, with her husband... Read more

Kate Bowler: A far better example than the Stoic-like approaches I hear among many today. In fact, an example straight from the reality stories of the Bible like Job. CANCER has kicked down the walls of my life. I cannot be certain I will walk my son to his elementary school someday or subject his love interests to cheerful scrutiny. I struggle to buy books for academic projects I fear I can’t finish for a perfect job I may be... Read more

You don’t have to Google for long to find someone who is tired of how political the church can be. One of the most common complaints by the new generation of Christians points at the politicization of the church, though at times what they mean is the politics are not theirs and if it was theirs they wouldn’t complain and would in fact see it as gospel work! But that reverse criticism describes only some of the church’s critics. The... Read more

By Chad Thornhill, PhD Chair of Theological Studies, Director of the MA in Christian Apologetics, Assistant Professor of Apologetics and Biblical Studies, Assistant Editor of Eruditio Ardescens  … School of Divinity One of the few books available which give some sustained argument for the view known as “corporate election” is William Klein’s “The New Chosen People” (my own contribution to this topic was recently published with IVP Academic). This  work, originally published in 1990 by Zondervan and then reprinted by Wipf & Stock in 2001, has... Read more