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Terror, Theology, and the Passage of Time: September 11, 2001 in Review

On Thursday, September 8, 2011, I was joined by Russell Moore, Zane Pratt, and Heath Lambert for a public discussion of the theological lessons of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. The video of the event is made available here, in hopes that ...

September 8, 2011

What Makes Evangelicalism Evangelical? A New Book Joins the Argument

The evangelical movement in America emerged in the twentieth century as conservative Protestants sought to perpetuate an intentional continuity with biblical Christianity. While the roots of the movement can be traced through centuries prior to its e ...

September 6, 2011

Adam and Eve: Clarifying Again What Is at Stake

Recent evangelical discussion concerning Adam and Eve has served at least one good purpose -- it has helped to clarify what is theologically at stake in the debate. The recent report by National Public Radio [NPR] alerted the larger secular culture t ...

August 31, 2011

A Laboratory for Christianity’s Destruction

As the BBC reports, some church leaders in the Netherlands want to transform their small nation into a laboratory for rethinking Christianity -- "experimenting with radical new ways of understanding the faith." Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert ...

August 26, 2011

Is God a Problem? Modern Theology Faces its Alternatives

The Christian Century, the venerable voice of liberal Protestantism, juxtaposed two significant obituaries in its August 23, 2011 edition -- and both on the same page. The magazine published a respectful obituary of evangelical titan John R. W. Stott ...

August 24, 2011

Video: “Little Children, Keep Yourselves from Idols”

This is my Opening Convocation message delivered Tuesday, August 23, 2011, to open the new academic year at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It is taken from 1 John 5:21, "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." [flashvideo file= ...

August 23, 2011

False Start? The Controversy Over Adam and Eve Heats Up

Each generation of Christians faces its own set of theological challenges. For this generation of Evangelicals, the question of beginnings is taking on a new urgency. In fact, this question is now a matter of Gospel urgency. How are we to understand ...

August 22, 2011

This Isn’t Meddling — It’s Murder

Euphemisms are the refuge of moral cowardice, and no euphemism is so cowardly or so deadly as "reduction" -- a word that sounds like math, but really means murder. The August 14, 2011 edition of The New York Times Magazine makes this fact clear in it ...

August 17, 2011

Evangelicals and the Gay Moral Revolution

The Christian church has faced no shortage of challenges in its 2,000-year history. But now it's facing a challenge that is shaking its foundations: homosexuality. To many onlookers, this seems strange or even tragic. Why can't Christians just join ...

August 10, 2011

Between Two Worlds: An Interview with John R. W. Stott

[The funeral for John R. W. Stott, one of the most famous evangelical preachers of the last century, will be held today in London at All Souls Church, Langham Place, where he served with distinction for so many decades of ministry. In honor of John S ...

August 8, 2011