Preferring a narrowly defined gospel, why have so many American evangelicals in recent decades not invested more in intellectual pursuits? Mark A. Noll here in ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’ wants to know, and I hold that we should want to know along with him.More
Open Gates, Friendly Fire, and a Table
Eventually, if we are serious about building anything—a household, a church, a friendship, a community, a culture—we have to concern ourselves with preservation. We have to ask what threatens the thing we are building, what belongs inside it, what does not, what needs repair, what needs correction, what needs protection, and what perhaps needs to be driven away.More
Receive Without Worship; Correct Without Vandalizing
It’s too easy to criticize the brilliant filmmaker Christopher Nolan for rewriting The Odyssey.
The harder and more actionable question is what kind of inheritance I am handling with this podcast.More
Cultivating a Steadfast Generation
Psalm 78 teaches us how history must be read. The main question is not simply, “What did our fathers do?” It is, “What did God do, and why?”More
Without Partiality, Without Hatred
Psalm 73 begins not with serene detachment. Not with tidy theological composure. Not with a man reclining in a leather chair, calmly explaining why the wicked only appear to prosper. Asaph begins with a confession.More
God Settles the Solitary in a Home
In light of all these things, the question is not merely whether we believe God settles the solitary in a home.More
Reviewing ‘War on Sacred Grounds’ by Ron E. Hassner
It seems to me as though Hassner is too good at thinking first and foremost about religious conflict as political conflict.More
What Assault Weapons Are, and Why Democrats Want to Ban Them
What the Democrats really want to control is us. Thus they aspire to limit our access to guns, so as to make us more vulnerable targets for their own predations.More
If Anyone Sins In Not Testifying, Though He is a Witness…
Not speaking up when you either are a direct witness in relation to an alleged crime, or else have heard from a direct witness – this is iniquitous, according to the Lord.More
Who That Naked Guy Was When They Arrested Jesus
Have you ever noticed a passing detail in Mark’s gospel, during the account of the arrest in Gethsemane, of a certain young man who was in the vicinity wearing nothing but a sheet? More