Religion
How do you convince someone of the truth, goodness, and beauty of the Christian faith when you cannot draw on basic religiosity that has been shared by most ...
An older friend once told me the story of a girl he dated for three years. (I’ll call my friend “John” and his girlfriend “Sue” for this story.)
John and Su...
Recently, I facilitated a discussion about motivation for a group of college football players. Football requires extreme sacrifice. To compete, a young man m...
Demoralised clergy speak of church in freefall and crisis of trust in run-up to governing body meetingMutiny may be in the air when the Church of England’s n...
President takes aim at agencies such as FBI and IRS in executive order cracking down on ‘anti-Christian bias’US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump is...
Archbishop’s moves to give himself more power over food bank amid latest storm to envelope his church leaves board member asking: ‘Why are we here?’By New Or...
Christianity’s central character is a divine person who has come down to earth. This isn’t a unique claim. Mythology is full of divine and celestial beings w...
I was a student-athlete at Auburn University in the late 1990s, and one of our preseason meetings was about the dangers of gambling, specifically sports bett...
When modern Americans talk about freedom, we tend to mean freedom from constraint. Our Supreme Court provided one of the clearest statements of this late Ame...
Bredwardine, Golden Valley, Herefordshire: Sixty people have turned out for this annual event to celebrate St Brigid’s Day and the first day of Gaelic spring...
“Protestant circles need a new pedagogical strategy,” Carl Trueman recently claimed. “It is striking that in the New Testament and in the early second centur...
Once we’ve built the theological and spiritual foundations of associate-pastor ministry, we can turn to the practical dynamics of serving fruitfully while be...
Marriage is a cornerstone of life in Islam, offering companionship, mutual support, and a path to spiritual growth. However, building and maintaining a succe...
Rotten Mountain, Co Fermanagh: It is tradition to come together and make St Brigid’s crosses on this night. And with Storm Éowyn causing havoc, it felt espec...
“Imagine dying without pain and suffering, peacefully, in a dignified, controlled manner, on your terms, on a date and at a time of your choosing,” reads the...
On My Shelf helps you get to know various writers through a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their lives as readers.
I asked Ian Harber—author of Walking Thro...
In this lecture, Don Carson exposits John 3, explaining how spiritual birth is a transformative power from God that brings moral and spiritual change. Carson...
When churches gather for worship, we typically follow a rhythm—or liturgy—of call and response. Whether you’re part of a free-church tradition or a more litu...
Jim Shaddix, my father in ministry and one of the most faithful followers of Jesus and preachers of God’s Word I’ve ever known or heard, went to be with the ...
Some have called our time the “late-modern” era. We’re living in the twilight of modernism: that great cultural and political movement that birthed the Indus...
When I was a senior in high school, I admitted myself into rehab.
Not the kind with fluorescent lights and group therapy but a self-prescribed rehab from my...
