10 years ago
By Dr. Joshua Chatraw Following the “Rules of the Gospel” in Engagement Jonathan Edwards, the great American pastor-theologian, articulated how the gospel not only gives a message to proclaim, but it also sets a course for living out this message. Writing on Christian charity, Edwards discussed what he called the...
10 years ago
By Dr. Karen Swallow Prior When Karen Swallow Prior was a child, church wasn’t a place that she associated with belonging, even though she was immersed in Christian culture. Books, on the other hand, were her refuge, a place where she came alive, an escape from the boredom of serving...
10 years ago
By Dr. Karen Swallow Prior The following is an excerpt from the interview Dr. Prior had with Jeb Bush: Here is the conversation we had while riding across the city whose landscape bears the imprint of Jerry Falwell’s conservative political legacy. Once we arrive at the airport, he offers me...
10 years ago
By Dr. Karen Swallow Prior In 1973, the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton rulings, together legalizing abortion in all 50 states, took everyone by surprise. Forty-two years later, the court’s legalization of gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges surprised almost no one. Both cases mark historic...
10 years ago
By Dr. Karen Swallow Prior “Write about being a woman,” she said. So I will. It means something, this being a woman. It is something bodily, yet beyond biology. There is something of earth in it, and something heavenly, too. It is something that can be understood, yet is not...
10 years ago
By Dr. Emily Heady Celebrated on August 6, the Feast of the Transfiguration commemorates the vivid, but baffling, passage in which Jesus ascends Mt. Tabor to pray, taking along his closest friends and disciples—Peter, James, and John. Jesus’ Transfiguration, a shift in His shape or form, occurs there, as His...
10 years ago
By Dr. Linda Mintle Like most of you, I was shaken by the horrific events of this past week: the senseless shooting of two TV journalists happened in my backyard. Those reporters worked at one of the TV stations in my viewing area and not too far from the massacre...
10 years ago
This article provides a link to a podcast done by Dr. Mark Foreman for MoralApologetics.com. In the podcast, Dr. Foreman explains why abortion is wrong from a purely philosophical standpoint. Some may find this approach odd because he does use any specific religious references to make his case. This is...
10 years ago
By Dr. Gary Habermas Contemporary trends, both popular and scholarly, have had a significant impact on religious issues over recent decades. There was the New Age Movement. Overlapping with that and extending far past it is Postmodernism. Now the New Atheism is in full bloom. Although the overall percentages are...
10 years ago
By Dr. Gary Habermas "While Christian beliefs are presumably much more widely known, especially in the Western world, some adherents to the major non-Christian religions also make claims that some of their historical rabbis, prophets, gurus or 'messiahs' rose from the dead. Judging from the relevant religious literature, it appears...
