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At last, Election Day arrives and we will soon (we sincerely hope) know the results of the 2024 presidential election. I’ll start by putting my cards ...

December 4, 2024

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The Christian Leader in the Digital Age

The Digital Age is upon us. In the span of less than three decades, we have redefined the way humans communicate, entertain, inform, research, create, and connect – and what we know now is only a hint of what is to come. But the greatest concern of t ...

February 19, 2014

The Other Shoe Drops in Kentucky: Federal Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage in the Commonwealth

"As far as this Court is concerned, no one should be fooled; it is just a matter of listening and waiting for the other shoe." Those are the words of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, drawn from his dissent in the case United States v. Windsor, h ...

February 12, 2014

Christian Missions in the Third Millennium

Now facing its third millennium, the Christian church faces a moment of great historical importance and opportunity. The modern missionary movement is now over two centuries old. Looking back over those years, it is clear that God mobilized His peopl ...

February 10, 2014

Bill Nye’s Reasonable Man—The Central Worldview Clash of the Ham-Nye Debate

Last night's debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham attracted a huge international audience and no shortage of controversy—even before it began. Bill Nye, whose main media presence is as "The Science Guy," and Ken Ham, co-founder of Answers in Genesis a ...

February 5, 2014

The New American Religion: The Rise of Sports and the Decline of the Church

Super Bowl XLVIII may have been a bust as a football game, but it was a blockbuster as a cultural event. The telecast of the event attracted a record 111.5 million viewers, making it the most-watched television event of all-time. That record will mos ...

February 4, 2014

Intellectual Discipleship? Faithful Thinking for Faithful Living

The biblical master narrative serves as a framework for the cognitive principles that allow the formation of an authentically Christian worldview. Many Christians rush to develop what they will call a “Christian worldview” by arranging isolated Chris ...

January 24, 2014

Abortion and the American Conscience

Tomorrow, January 22, 2014, is the 41st anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history -- the day that the United States Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion on demand. Since that date, almost 55 million ...

January 21, 2014

A respectful conversation on the most controversial issues of our day is a rare gift. And I am looking forward to just that kind of opportunity when I will join Dennis Prager and Ross Douthat for such a conversation. It will take place next Tuesday i ...

January 20, 2014

Welcome to Seminary—Now What? How to Be Faithful as a Seminary Student

My great privilege every semester is to welcome an incoming class of seminarians to the stewardship of theological education. This is not a privilege I take lightly. I remember what it was like to sit in the same room well over thirty years ago, bein ...

January 17, 2014

Evolution Is Most Certainly a Matter of Belief—and so Is Christianity

One of the most misleading headlines imaginable recently appeared over an opinion column published in USA Today. Tom Krattenmaker, a member of the paper's Board of Contributors, set out to argue that there is no essential conflict between evolution a ...

January 15, 2014