Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important, and we think Christians ought to be reading books. Social media allows for discourse as sophisticated as a hammer trying to play a ...  Read More

IntroductionIn the book, What is a Person?, Christian Smith argues that human beings express specific capacities, powers, limits, and tendencies that form human nature.[1] These features reveal that m...  Read More

Martin Luther was disappointed he wasn’t the first martyr of the Reformation. That honor falls to a group of Augustinian monks in Antwerp. During the 1520s, the Netherlands was under the control of Qu...  Read More

IntroductionThe key to defining legalism is patience. To merely call it salvation by works is like saying a poisoned well is simply water. Technically true, perhaps, but missing what makes it deadly. ...  Read More

Every worldview is accountable to the question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The primary battleground the world has with the church is the issue of beginnings, including human origins...  Read More

IntroductionCatholicity refers to unity. In practice, it means to bring Christians together rather than separate them. This is easier said than done. The possibility of catholicity is found in the par...  Read More

IntroductionAt the end of this blog there is a sample prayer for your enemies that is based on Psalm 129. This Psalm is about someone who has been afflicted since his youth. He has been savagely oppre...  Read More

IntroductionEveryone has notions of history. Some even pretend to despise it. Yet Carl Becker (1873-1945), the famous American historian, offers a poignant retort when he says “Everyman is his own his...  Read More

IntroductionConsider, if you will, the most audacious of theological propositions: that the Almighty Himself operates in the grand theater of redemptive history as Warrior-King par excellence. The Mos...  Read More

IntroductionTo be authentically human is to behave creaturely. God is the Creator. Humans are the prize of creation, made in God’s image. To be fully human is to embrace your creatureliness. You are c...  Read More

IntroductionDysfunction can happen anywhere, whether at home, in the government, or in your favorite sports team. Your workplace can also have a chronic state of dysfunction that wears on you. It’s no...  Read More

IntroductionBelief in one conspiracy, rightly attested, doesn’t mean you should believe in all the rest, falsely suggested. It's hard to know what to believe. Before surrendering reason to conspiracy'...  Read More