The phrase in the Declaration of Independence meant more to the Founders than we ever would have thought.

Over the last decade or so, the term "gospel-centered" has become very popular among some followers of Jesus. Many words have issued forth from those people ...

In a couple previous posts (here and here) I've been meditating on how the gospel—the good news of Jesus—is the solution to all human problems. In the last p...

I learned much valuable stuff to ponder from a recent conversation with a sweet and honest friend. We were talking about how adolescents navigate their trans...

I've been thinking a lot lately about what it means to apply the good news of Jesus Christ—a.k.a., the gospel—to one's life. A number of people have been wri...

The doctrine of hell is one of the hardest pills to swallow for people who grapple with Christianity (not to mention for many Christians themselves). It both...

UPDATE July 17, 2017 This post makes reference to, in my words, Eugene Peterson's "permissive" view of homosexual behavior by Christians. Peterson partially ...

One of the planks of today's progressive worldview is cultural relativism. Yet progressivism and cultural relativism are fundamentally incompatible, and to t...

Since the election of Donald Trump, prestigious figures in journalism have been wringing their hands over the "post-truth era." The New York Times has been b...

The New Testament writings of John are ingenious. He employed a very small palette of simple terms—almost Hop on Pop-simple—but he used them in a way that im...

When we think of what is or is not an appropriate story for a book or film—whether from the perspective of age-appropriacy or of political correctness or of w...