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The Only Game in Town? Richard Dawkins and the Limits of Reason

Evolution by natural selection is "the only game in town, the greatest show on Earth," asserts Richard Dawkins. We have come to expect claims like this from Richard Dawkins, perhaps the most famous defender of Darwinian evolution alive today. Unlike ...

April 6, 2011

The Misplaced Aims of the Tiger Mother

Are Chinese mothers superior? Amy Chua clearly believes so, and her argument has just as clearly caught the attention of the American public. Chua's book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has made The New York Times bestseller list for the past ten w ...

March 29, 2011

Make Sure the Demons Know You by Name — The Give Me An Answer Message

Just a few days ago Southern Seminary and Boyce College welcomed a huge group of high school students to our Give Me An Answer Conference, themed this year as "Important." Our goal was to help Christian young people to find their importance for life ...

March 25, 2011

Must a Pastor Be Married? The New York Times Asks the Question

Is marriage a requirement for pastoral ministry? That question is not new, having been a major focus of debates at crucial points in church history, but it is being asked once again. Erik Eckholm of The New York Times asked the question in a news st ...

March 25, 2011

Panel Discussion — Rob Bell and “Love Wins”

Last Thursday I moderated a panel discussion on Rob Bell's new book, Love Wins. My fellow panelists included Justin Taylor of Crossway Books and blogger at The Gospel Coalition, Denny Burk, dean of Boyce College, and Russell Moore, dean of the School ...

March 23, 2011

A Theological Conversation Worth Having: A Response to Brian McLaren

Some theological disputes amount to very little and serve mostly as exercises in missing the point, if indeed there is a point. Other doctrinal exchanges are quite different and deal with matters of central and essential concern to the Christian fait ...

March 23, 2011

This Priest Faces Mecca? A Parable of Confusion

Rev. Steve Lawler has attracted the attention of the national media because this Episcopal priest chose a very odd way to observe Lent. He decided to "adopt the rituals of Islam" for the forty day season observed by many liturgical denominations, inc ...

March 17, 2011

We Have Seen All This Before: Rob Bell and the (Re)Emergence of Liberal Theology

The novelist Saul Bellow once remarked that being a prophet is nice work if you can get it. The only problem, he suggested, is that sooner or later a prophet has to speak of God, and at that point the prophet has to speak clearly. In other words, the ...

March 16, 2011

When the Earth Moves: Pray for the People of Japan

There can be few more frightening experiences than an earthquake, and last Friday's quake that has devastated Japan will rank among the strongest ever recorded. Ranking 9.0 on the scale of magnitude, the Sendai, Japan quake ranks fifth among earthqua ...

March 14, 2011

Doing Away with Hell? Part Two

The doctrine of hell has recently come under vicious attack, both from secularists and even from some evangelicals. In many ways, the assault has been a covert one. Like a slowly encroaching tide, a whole complex of interrelated cultural, theological ...

March 10, 2011

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