The president has come out in favor of gay marriage. What should we say about that? Others have offered helpful insight about how to think about homosexuality, how it fits into the larger scope of the church’s views and practices about sex, the Bible’s teaching about homosexuality, and how the church should respond. Still others [...]
That’s not the best title for a blog, is it? I wonder how many people might see the title and click away to a different website because they’re “just not into poetry.” But every April, I hope to renew my interest and appreciation for poetry and try to encourage others to join me. Whether poetry [...]
I recently heard someone my age (I’m 56) bemoaning the loss of the ability to reason by people my kids’ ages (they’re in their 20s). “The younger generation can’t reason because they’re so busy texting or updating their Facebook page or tweeting or whatever it is that they’re doing all the time,” he ranted. It [...]
A friend asked me how I would respond to a situation in which he found himself. He felt trapped. As a campus minister through a local church, he was invited to join a group of professors for lunch. As far as he knew, none of them were Christians. When he sat down and introduced himself, [...]
Time magazine’s March 12th cover story, 10 Ideas that are Changing Your Life, includes the news that “the fastest-growing religious group in the U.S. is the category of people who say they have no religious affiliation. Sometimes called “the nones” by social scientists, their numbers have more than doubled since 1990; major surveys put them [...]
To celebrate what would have been Francis Schaeffer’s one hundredth birthday, I recently read two books about him. I commented about Colin Duriez’s excellent biography a few weeks ago. Today I want to share some thoughts about Bryan Follis’ investigation of Schaeffer’s apologetics. Aptly titled, Truth and Love, Follis brings both an appreciative and critical [...]
