There are two great lies that I have heard: “The day you eat of the fruit of that tree, you will not surely die” and that Jesus Christ was a white, middle-class Republican and if you wanna be saved, you have to learn to be like Him… It would be easy to dismiss these lines from Derek Webb’s A...

What would you do if Odin decided to haunt you because he was angry you’d left him for Jesus? When a pagan society is Christianized, it must determine how to either leave behind or incorporate its old talismans and traditions into its new Christian faith.  This is seldom an easy task, as any...

Christ has risen. Easter has come. We have celebrated with church and feasting and games. Those of us who fasted have finished and are happily returning to our regular meals, and those other relishes that remind us of the bounty of the lives we have been given by God. As we return to normal time, it’s...

In the recent inaugural episode of Barak Wright’s arts and culture podcast, The Sandbox Monthly, Ken Myers talked about the dearth of genuine speech on the radio. Real conversation is full of starts and stops, hesitations, and the kind of awkwardness not found in the canned speech of radio personalities,...

Geography is important to any city. By looking at the placement of houses, entertainment and work places, one can slowly piece together both the citizens’ character and philosophy. Temples and important public buildings not only dictated where people socialized but provided people with a way of...

When Bethany Hoang (now director of the International Justice Mission Institute) turned in papers on modern slavery for her seminary classes, her professors docked points from her grades for lying.  Eventually she learned to bring in stacks of reports from the CIA and the U.S. State Department to back...

Back in the 1940’s Donald Grey Barnhouse, a Presbyterian pastor, asked the question, “What would it be like if Satan took over a city?” Barnhouse speculated that if Satan took over Philadelphia, all of the bars would be closed, pornography banished, and pristine streets would be filled with tidy...

By Elena Johnston I’ve been doing a lot of sourdough baking lately. It’s become something of an obsession. I tend to do that. I’ll latch onto an idea, and go a little crazy with it. The idea just grows and grows until it seems permeate everything. And then, while I’m busy...

A few days ago Tim Challies wrote: What if there was a ten minute video clip (with transcript) of John Piper sharing the gospel? Wouldn’t it be an amazing thing if [this] could be promoted to the front page [of social media sites] and be seen by thousands or tens of thousands? In response, Desiring...