Lessons on worshiping a consistently unpredictable God. My son, Luke, is a brilliant soccer player. Even at a young age, he had fantastic control skills and a powerful kick. Luke is also a brilliant artist, appreciating the beauty of the world around him and translating that onto paper with pencil and paint. Unfortunately, this combination …
Former winner explains how the seminary honor that once brought the Reformed community together is now splitting it. A large number of the 300 who attended the 1998 Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary were “Kuyperians.” On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Kuyper’s delivering those lectures in 1898, the seminary chose to commemorate the occasion …
Young adults are desperate not to let peers see any signs of weakness or failure. A cursory search of academic dissertations reveals a new interest in the origins of insults and curse words. For instance, I learned recently that the insult “phony”—as in “She acted like she was into EDM [electronic dance music], but then …
In the Muslim world, Christians have a complicated relationship with alcohol. The deadliest incident faced by the persecuted church last Christmas wasn’t radical Islamists. It was alcohol. Liquor mixed with aftershave killed about 50 people at Christmas parties in a Pakistani village, and sickened about 100 more. In Pakistan, as in many Muslim-majority nations where …
Why outrage culture is good news for the gospel. Elvis. Tupac. The ivory-billed woodpecker. Sometimes it’s hard to let go and acknowledge when a celebrity or a species has left us. Christians find it particularly hard to come to terms with the passing of the “moral relativist.” Yes, there is the occasional reported sighting in …
Question: What is the biblical hope and comfort we can offer a suicide victim’s family and friends? —name withheld People who ask this question seek biblical grounds for giving hope to the kin of believers who take their own lives. The burden of proof, I should think, lies not with those who offer the solace …
An excerpt from ‘Dream with Me: Race, Love, and the Struggle We Must Win.’ When my family and a team from our ministry moved to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1972, we purchased several buildings, including a rundown house in one of the roughest and poorest neighborhoods in town. The old house was very big, and we …
Why American evangelicals see Islam so differently. While federal judges and lawyers argue over whether President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on travel amounts to a “Muslim ban,” evangelical experts on Muslim missions express concerns over how popular the proposal is in America’s pews. The Pew Research Center has found that self-identified white evangelicals were …
The graphic novelist and MacArthur Grant recipient sees his life as an outsider as a blessing. One morning this past September, Gene Luen Yang was backing out of his driveway in San Jose, California, to go to his writing studio—a nearby Panera Bread—when he got a call. Someone from the MacArthur Foundation was on the …
With Austin (and Solomon) as his muse, Terrence Malick applies ancient truth to the 21st-century world. Terrence Malick’s Song to Song, which comes to theaters tomorrow, might be compared to La La Land. Both films star Ryan Gosling as a musician trying to make it big. Both are about balancing love and career ambition, and …