A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence: The relentless expository passion of John F. MacArthur, Jr., 1939-2025

He was the greatest expositor of his times. One of the ironies of John MacArthur is that, to the end, he insisted that any God-called preacher of the ...

August 14, 2025

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Books, Libraries, and the Ideal of Christian Scholarship

We moderns tend to take books and libraries for granted, assuming that, at least since the invention of writing, all human beings have always enjoyed such access to the printed page. In reality the story is much different. Only in fairly recent times ...

October 10, 2007

Falling Birthrates, Empty Cribs, and Collapsing Worldviews

What really explains the disastrous fall in European birthrates? The collapse of birthrates in Europe covers almost the entire continent and has left many observers scratching their heads in puzzlement. Writing in The Weekly Standard, Steve Ozment, P ...

October 9, 2007

Is Creationism a Threat to Human Rights?

As if the world needed another crazy development, the Council of Europe, the continent's central human rights body, last week declared creationism to be a threat to human rights. The group's Parliamentary Assembly approved a resolution stating that c ...

October 8, 2007

Is the University Hostile to Christian Professors?

The university was the child of the church. The classic ideal of the university emerged from the context of medieval Christianity and the confidence that all truth and every discipline of learning is, in the end, united in Christ -- the wisdom of God ...

October 4, 2007

When Ecology Replaces Theology

Is saving the earth what remains when liberal churches are no longer concerned for the salvation of souls? Have these churches replaced theology with ecology? Frank Furedi is a British sociologist who teaches at the University of Kent. He is also a c ...

October 3, 2007

So What Does an Atheist Do With the Bible? — Ideology Meets Etiquette

Author Christopher Hitchens, striving for the uncontested title as the World's Most Strident Atheist, suggests that our culture is experiencing "something like a change in the zeitgiest" -- and that that change means a new openness to atheism. His bo ...

October 1, 2007

Church Planting Movements and the Great Commission

Is the planting of new churches the defining model of Great Commission faithfulness in this generation? That question is asked by Tim Stafford in an article published by Christianity Today. In "Go and Plant Churches of All Peoples," Stafford suggests ...

September 28, 2007

What Really Happened in New Orleans? An Anglican Schism Draws Closer

"We want that statement to be clear and unambiguous and we are working in that direction," said Episcopal Bishop Neil Alexander of Atlanta. The bishop made this statement at a press conference during the meeting of the Episcopal Church's House of Bis ...

September 26, 2007

Ex Libris — The Knife Man

We have learned to believe that modern medical knowledge and practice can perform wonders of healing without fanfare. We take such things as vaccinations, antibiotics, anesthesia, and antiseptics for granted. Beyond all this we assume a background of ...

September 25, 2007

Arrested Development and the Civilizational Crisis

This much is now clear -- Americans are taking a lot longer to grow up. As a matter of fact, this society has developed a period of extended adolescence that is completely without precedent in human history. Diana West traces this development in The ...

September 24, 2007