Joe Carter

When I was younger and more disputatious (seriously, I’ve toned it down a lot ), I used to spend too much time arguing about the Bible with KJV-only fundamentalists. The debates were about as dumb as unproductive as you’d imagine, but I still wish I could go back with this bit of . . . . Continue Reading »

“This is your last chance, Wormwood, grab him before he gets to the chapel.” . . . . Continue Reading »

Providing support for a point I made in my previous post , Marina Adshade finds an unsurprisingly correlation between promiscuity and unhappiness : Sex makes us happy (do I need to cite my source for that?), but how about 1970’s style love-the-one-you’re-with sex? You know the kind of sex . . . . Continue Reading »

In his essay on “The Pleasures of Eating” , the philosopher and farmer Wendell Berry says that after delivering a lecture on the decline of American farming and rural life, someone in the audience would invariably ask what city people can do. “Eat responsibly,” Berry would . . . . Continue Reading »

1. How ancient Greek statues really looked Original Greek statues were brightly painted, but after thousands of years, those paints have worn away. Find out how shining a light on the statues can be all that’s required to see them as they were thousands of years ago. . . . . Continue Reading »

In response to his own question, “What is America?”, G.K. Chesterton replied, “a nation with the soul of a church.” Throughout the nation’s history millions of believers of various faiths have shaped that soul. But which religious figures have had the most influence? I’ve selected fifty . . . . Continue Reading »

My cheap jab at Joel Osteen in a previous post has led some commenters wondering why I’m taking shots at the Word of Faith movement and/or the “prosperity gospel.” I admit that it was a bit naive and foolish to assume that readers of Evangel would even know why I was critical of . . . . Continue Reading »

[Note: This is a companion post to yesterday's “The Probability of God.”] Life is a gamble. Every day we are forced to make decisions based on imperfect knowledge, unsure of the outcomes of our choices. We do the best we can with what we have available, developing strategies based on . . . . Continue Reading »

A new national survey by the Pew Research Center reports an increasing number of people in every group polled holds the wacky belief that President Obama is a Muslim. Sadly, the folks that look like me (conservatives, white evangelicals) are the ones most likely (34 percent and 29 percent) to . . . . Continue Reading »

As a lifelong student of rhetoric, I’ve always had a fascination and fondness for preachers. I’ve spent many years studying their manners and methods in order to learn how they are able to communicate to large groups in a way that feels intimate and familiar.For instance, one of my . . . . Continue Reading »