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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When Alan Dershowitz Says You’re Liberal — You’re Liberal

I was interested and somewhat amused to see The Wall Street Journal quote Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz in its front-page story on the resignation of Harvard president Lawrence Summers [see entries below]. Here is how the paper set up the qu ...

February 23, 2006

U.S. Supreme Court Takes Abortion Case

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to accept the government's appeal on the partial-birth abortion law is good news, and observers of the court will be watching closely as the justices hear the case in the fall. As The Los Angeles Times explained, "T ...

February 23, 2006

On Christians and Cancer — Two Witnesses

The diagnosis of cancer is one that will come to millions of Christians. How are we to respond? That was the question on yesterday's edition of The Albert Mohler Program, when my guest was Dr. Don Whitney, Professor of Spirituality at The Southern Ba ...

February 22, 2006

Harvard University’s Founding Vision and Mission — A Timely Reminder

The tumult at Harvard University that culminated in the resignation of the university's president Lawrence H. Summers yesterday, provides a good opportunity to be reminded of that university's founding vision and mission -- and for a reflection on ho ...

February 22, 2006

Lawrence Summers Resigns as Harvard University President

The resignation of Lawrence H. Summers as president of Harvard University raises anew the most important question facing higher education today -- Is there any hope for academic and institutional reform? After all, President Summers' plans for refor ...

February 22, 2006

Assaulted by Salt? Newsweek Makes a Correction

Newsweek magazine recently published this correction: In the Feb. 6 article "Cut, Thrust and Christ," we misquoted Jerry Falwell as using the words "assault ministry." In fact, Falwell was referring to "a salt ministry," a reference to Matthew 5:13 ...

February 21, 2006

“Peter Pans Who Shave” — The Generation That Won’t Grow Up

Alex and Brett Harris of The Rebelution have written a fine article for Boundless.org on the extension of adolescence into what should be adulthood. They explain: Adultescents (we'll refer to them as "kidults") often live with their parents, even a ...

February 21, 2006

A Glorious Hymn to Darwin? Scientific American and Secular Hero Worship

Scientific American has published a review of several new books on Charles Darwin and Darwinism in its latest issue. The review is by Jonathan Weiner, author of The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. Weiner's review will get your at ...

February 21, 2006

Jesus, Superman, and the Perils of Superficiality

Ruth Gledhill, religion correspondent for The Times [London] reports that religious educators in Great Britain plan to use Superman as a way of getting school children to think about Jesus. This is how Gledhill introduces her report: The comic book ...

February 20, 2006

Anne Lamott and Her Evangelical Audience

Writer Anne Lamott is known for being plain spoken (an understatement) and controversial, and yet she has a readership among many evangelicals. They may well be shocked to read her recent op-ed piece in The Los Angeles Times on abortion. She minces n ...

February 20, 2006