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 ...
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 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 ...
The legal, social, moral, and political maps of America were redefined last Friday night as the New York State Senate voted 33-29 to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. The State Assembly had already approved the measure, leaving the Republican- ...
As if the Church of England does not have enough troubles, word is leaking out of Lambeth Palace that the church is about to allow the appointment of openly gay bishops, so long as those bishops remain celibate. The news has emerged in the form o ...
Is President Obama about to endorse same-sex marriage? The possibility was the subject of open speculation on the front page of Sunday's edition of The New York Times. Reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg quoted an unnamed Democratic strategist close to the ...
There is no shortage of perplexing realities in our world today, but counted among them must be the fact that many rather well informed people seem to be shocked that Christians believe the doctrines of Christianity. Over the weekend, Rep. Anthony W ...
"Most Christians assume that Christianity is the one and only religion that is God-inspired and that carries the imprimatur of God's blessing," laments R. Kirby Godsey. In his new book, Is God a Christian?, Godsey sets out to oppose that assumptio ...