WSJ A former top science official in the Obama administration says, “The idea that ‘Climate science is settled’ runs through today’s popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, (more…) Read more

WSJ Limiting First Amendment rights for Christians undercuts rights for everyone else. http://online.wsj.com/articles/harvey-a-silverglate-a-campus-crusade-against-the-constitution-1411081302 Read more

One of my readers has complained that abortion and gay marriage are not in the Bible, and this contradicts my saying that we should not preach about political questions that are not plainly spelled out in Scripture.  For yesterday I said we should not avoid these two issues in the pulpit. (more…) Read more

Dear Gerry! We hope this letter finds you well. We are entering the High Holiday season in Israel under a shadow of a new threat: there is a growing concern that some incident at the northern border could flare up into a greater conflict. Hezbollah has around 100 000 rockets of different kinds with the launching capability of around 1000 rockets per day. (more…) Read more

Last week in the Wall Street Journal retired Episcopal priest J. Perry Smith offered an amusing and mostly-right reflection on what distinguishes good from bad sermons. Let me tender my own five rules for good preaching. 1. Explain the text. It’s remarkable how many preachers miss this. Instead, they use the text as a pretext for their own message, often light years from the message of the text they claim to interpret. Most churchgoers, however, come to the sermon wanting... Read more

College students, like everyone else, want to be happy. Educators should help them ground this desire for happiness in (more…) Read more

Lela Gilbert US Senator Ted Cruz was booed off stage last Wednesday for defending Israel at an event hosted by the In Defense of Christians organization. But what really (more…) Read more

Friday, April 17, 2015 Georgetown University Conference Center Can Christian Zionism be defended in the twenty-first century? Theologically? Historically? Can it be defended in ways that are consistent (more…) Read more

The other day a shocking thing occurred. At a rally to support persecuted Christians–called by the new group “In Defense of Christians”–Senator Ted Cruz was booed off the stage when he declared that Christians have no greater ally than the nation of Israel. (more…) Read more

Philip Clayton Wolfhart Pannenberg has often been called the greatest theologian of the second half of the 20th century. With his death Friday, the world has lost a brilliant interpreter of Christianity, and I have lost (more…) Read more