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 ...
Summer Reading List 2025 R. Albert Mohler, Jr. July 7, 2025 Hello, I'm Albert Mohler. Welcome to In the Library. I'm going to talk about my 2025 ...
The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...
In normal times, an institution like Harvard University thrives on publicity. Then again, these are not normal times. Harvard may be the most elite br...
More than twenty years ago, theologian J. I. Packer recounted what he called a “Thirty Years’ War” over the inerrancy of the Bible. He traced his involvement in this war in its American context back to a conference held in Wenham, Massachusetts in 19 ...
On November 3, 1921, J. Gresham Machen presented an address entitled, “Liberalism or Christianity?” In that famous address, later expanded into the book, Christianity and Liberalism, Machen argued that evangelical Christianity and its liberal riva ...
Is morality limited to questions of direct harm? That question is not just a matter of moral theory -- it also informs our most urgent political and cultural debates. Back in May, columnist Eric Zorn of The Chicago Tribune asserted: "To me, immoral c ...
Joel Osteen was back on CNN this week, appearing Thursday morning on "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien." Osteen's new book, I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life, recently hit the nation's bookstores. Osteen's positive thinking theology ...
The whole world changed on Tuesday. At least, that is what many would have us to believe. Smithsonian magazine, published by the Smithsonian Institution, declares that the news released Tuesday was "apt to send jolts through the world of biblical sch ...
A recent letter to columnist Carolyn Hax of The Washington Post seemed straightforward enough. "I am a stay-at-home mother of four who has tried to raise my family under the same strong Christian values that I grew up with," the woman writes. "Theref ...
American presidential elections are the world's most public display of the democratic process. The global media follow the American elections with a fervor that is easily understood -- what happens in an American presidential election matters all ove ...
"It is hard to think of any other profession which it is so near to impossible to leave." That is the judgment of Richard Dawkins, perhaps the world's most famous living atheist, as he welcomes unbelieving pastors to join the Clergy Project, a group ...
My article, "Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary," is now available at The Atlantic. I write about Helen Gurley Brown's influence in the Sexual Revolution and the revolutionary character of her agenda in her own times. Conservativ ...
For many years I have been captivated by King David's lament over Abner in 2 Samuel 3. It framed a fitting text for my 2012 Opening Convocation Address at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: "Shall We Die as a Fool Dies?" ...