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My CNN Column: Are Evangelicals Dangerous?

My column at CNN.com, "Are Evangelicals Dangerous?," was posted there on Sunday's front page. By mid-Monday, there were 75 pages of comments at the site. That tells us something about the volatility of the question. You can count on more debates alo ...

October 17, 2011

Mormonism, Democracy, and the Urgent Need for Evangelical Thinking

Predictably, Mormonism is in the news again. The presence of two members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints among contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination ensured that it was only a matter of time before Evangelicals ...

October 10, 2011

Should Pastors Perform Marriages for Cohabitating Couples?

Should Christian pastors preside at marriage ceremonies for cohabitating couples? That is not just a theoretical question -- it is a pastoral dilemma faced by almost every pastor. Given the rising rates of cohabitation, this question will only grow m ...

October 7, 2011

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

The death of Steve Jobs, founder and iconic leader of Apple, is a signal moment in the lives of the "Digital Generation," which Jobs, along with a very few other creative geniuses, made possible. Few individuals of any historical epoch can claim to h ...

October 6, 2011

Dragged Kicking and Screaming into the Modern Age? Lessons from Piers Morgan’s Interview with Joel Osteen

An interview that begins with a statement like, "Well, Piers, to me, faith is all about learning to be happy where you are," is probably not going to end well. Piers Morgan's interview with Joel and Victoria Osteen Tuesday night was very revealing ab ...

October 6, 2011

A New Third Way? Reformist Evangelicals and the Evangelical Future

Who is and is not an evangelical? With whom should evangelicals cooperate in gospel efforts, and with whom not? Which theological expressions are truly evangelical, and which are beyond the pale? These questions are central to the ongoing crisis of ...

September 26, 2011

Terror Revisited — Truth Revealed

On September 11, 2011 -- the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States, I preached the following message at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky [East Campus]. The message, "Terror Revisited: Truth Rev ...

September 16, 2011

Thrown Over the Fence — Infanticide, Canadian Style

Mark Steyn hit the nail on the head when he accused a Canadian appeals court of allowing for a "fourth-trimester abortion" -- that's right, the killing of a baby that is already born. The case emerged from the Court of Queen's Bench in Alberta, wher ...

September 16, 2011

The Devil is in the Details: Biblical Inerrancy and the Licona Controversy

The affirmation of biblical inerrancy is nothing more, and nothing less, than the affirmation of the Bible's total truthfulness and trustworthiness. The assertion of the Bible's inerrancy -- that the Bible is "free from all falsehood or mistake" -- i ...

September 14, 2011

Truth-Telling in a Time of Tragedy: September 11, 2001

[This message was preached on September 13, 2001--two days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011. It is republished in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of those attacks. An extended reflection on these events from the perspective of ...

September 9, 2011