What to do when someone you’ve admired for their long obedience seems to change direction. Shortly after this podcast was published, Eugene Peterson retracted his statement and affirmed a biblical view of marriage instead. More information can be found here. Kevin Miller didn’t see Eugene Peterson’s support for same-sex marriage coming. Miller, pastor of the …
The center of the evolution debate has shifted from asking whether we came from earlier animals to whether we could have come from one man and one woman. Secularist brows furrowed in 2009 when President Obama chose prominent atheist-turned-Christian Francis S. Collins to be the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Under the …
Why churches are turning to club music to elevate praise. The house lights are dark as bright beams of electric blue scan the crowd. White strobes pulsate to the uhn tiss uhn tiss beat. A pre-chorus of snare-drum 16th notes gradually builds into a turbo-spooled climax of drum machine rapid fire. Everything is wound in …
Sofia Coppola’s latest film is all about the inevitable gap between who we are and who we claim to be. The year is 1864. Somewhere in Virginia, a young girl walks through the woods, singing herself a sweetly imperfect melody. Viewers watch from behind as her small figure, head and shoulders framed by long brunette …
Why theological indifference is worse than progressivism. Shortly after this article was published, Eugene Peterson retracted his statement and affirmed a biblical view of marriage instead. More information can be found here. *** In an interview published yesterday with Jonathan Merritt at Religion News Service, Eugene Peterson announced his willingness to perform same-sex weddings and …
Jesus’ transformation on the mountain might have more to do with us than we think. We sometimes forget how strange Jesus was. He did a lot of odd things during his time on earth—he cursed trees, ordered his followers not to tell anyone who he was, associated with gluttons and drunkards, told parables to deliberately …
Let’s show mercy to those who ‘misinterpret’ Jeremiah 29:11 and other favorite verses. Imagine yourself as a seminary student. Now imagine yourself as a young, male seminary student with a semi-educated, somewhat emotional, faithful churchgoing but biblically untrained mother-in-law. You like her well enough, but as your own seminary training has increased your exegetical skills, …
Robots could take half of our jobs in the next decade. Here’s why Christians have nothing to fear. The goal was to save money,” Ken Dean said. A senior IT manager near Sacramento, California, Dean oversaw Sprint’s mailroom operations in the early 2000s. Inside the data center, one of three in the United States, hundreds …
Both pilgrims and pleasure seekers allow Arab believers to resist exodus amid ISIS. Call Ann Fink crazy, but the intrepid grandmother has a tradition to uphold. She’s toured Israel, Jordan, and Egypt with 8 of her 13 granddaughters. Victoria, a preteen, is number 9. “Her parents are not afraid,” said Fink, a Pennsylvania native, while …
‘Despicable Me 3’ recalls the Apostle Paul’s struggle to ‘do the right thing.’ Shortly before my husband and I got married, someone gifted us a copy of Despicable Me—a movie we had enjoyed so much that we added it to our wedding registry. I don’t particularly enjoy kids’ movies, but Despicable Me was such a …