Every generation has its own formative moments. In just a few generations, the prominent memories shifted from “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Pearl...
For decades now, leading American conservatives have accused the political left of being soft on crime. This charge against the political left in the ...
Committee hearings and meetings of the U.S. Senate are often routine and uneventful, but one hearing this week turned into something truly consequenti...
To see him around children was to catch a glimpse of his gift. Over dinner in our home, my wife and I noticed that Dr. James Dobson had chosen to sit ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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= ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court's declaration of war upon the unborn in its infamous 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, caught most conservative Christians unprepared and unaware. This shock to the nation's conscience required Christians and other pro-life activists ...