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April 2013

April 28, 2013
In recent months, these two issues--creation and Canaanite extermination--have been among the more heat-producing that...
April 26, 2013
I was in Ohio (pronounced o-HI-o) earlier this week. I hadn't been there since 2005...
April 24, 2013
Today we continue Denis Lamoureux's series of brief slide shows on his popular book I Love...
April 20, 2013
NPR ran a story today marking the 20th anniversary of the Branch Davidian standoff and tragic...
April 17, 2013
Unbelievable. I don't normally post on politics. Political news doesn't interest me much, mainly because...
April 17, 2013
Christians do not read Scripture for mere historical interest. They read Scripture as members of...
April 15, 2013
Today's post is more a 12 minute guest slide show (link below) by Denis Lamoureux, associate...
April 12, 2013
A few days ago I posted the main bullet points for the lecture I gave at...
April 09, 2013
Today's post is by Harold Heie, Senior Fellow at the Center for Christian Studies at Gordon...
April 08, 2013
This past Saturday, I gave a paper at the northeast regional meeting of the Evangelical...
April 07, 2013
I recently began reading The Legacy of Israel in Judah's Bible: History, Politics, and the Reinscribing...
April 04, 2013
Peter Traben Haas, former evangelical and now senior pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in...
April 01, 2013
In a recent Ethics and Public Policy Center forum, Tim Keller spoke to a group of...

March 2013

March 29, 2013
Bottom line, I think the New Testament is being handled a lot better than the...
March 28, 2013
Today we have a real treat (a witty pun--give it a minute): an interview with Rachel Marie...
March 27, 2013
In a recent 6-minute podcast, "Can We Reconcile Creation and Evolution?", John Piper shares his...
March 23, 2013
Helen De Cruz (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Institute of Philosophy), recently posted a brief article "A Darwinian...
March 18, 2013
O.K., let's try to be constructive here. I'm not crazy about the TV series "The...
March 16, 2013
There's been a lot of slamming of "The Bible" TV series on the History Channel...
March 15, 2013
The Drew Marshall Show is "Canada's most listened to spiritual talk show," though probably not any...
March 13, 2013
In the spiritual life, there aren't too many absolutes I can make, but this is...
March 12, 2013
Last week, The Atlantic posted a very balanced online article, "Old Earth, Young Minds: Evangelical...
March 10, 2013
Can we declare holy war on the ChristianMingle.com commercials? ChristianMingle.com doesn't elevate dating to holy...
March 07, 2013
Recently, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary broadcast another "panel discussion," this one taking to task Eric...
March 05, 2013
In the fifty-second year, in the third month on the third day, as I was...
March 04, 2013
I'm not a big fan of seeing the Bible depicted in film. The biblical narratives have...
March 01, 2013
I don't believe in God anymore. I used to, though. This is a choice I've...

February 2013

February 27, 2013
Today’s post is written by Brandon Ambrosino, a self-described “post-evangelical, orthodox Christian,” who is active...
February 24, 2013
I think I've always been a bit uneasy about the idea that God holds me responsible in...
February 22, 2013
Today's post is a brief interview with Carolyn Custis James about her most recent book...
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