“Evangelicals love to believe bad things about themselves,” says Kevin DeYoung . “And often what they believe about themselves is not true.” Everyone seems to love stats about bad Christians. Non-Christians like to see that we really are fakes. Christians like to think the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Songbook was analyzing a set of songs about Loneliness and Individualism, such as Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence,” before it got side-tracked into laying out my theory of modernity’s sociological stages. It’s time to return to the first task, which brings me . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things ’ video, The Creed: What Christians Profess, and Why It Ought to Matter , should be on your Christmas list this season. Produced by actor, director, and writer, Tim Kelleher, The Creed is a remarkable film about why the radical claims made in the Nicene Creed are so important to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) sponsors a fine online journal entitled “Let’s Talk,” which is a venue for Chicago-area pastors, theologians, and laity to contribute articles about issues facing the Lutheran church in the urban . . . . Continue Reading »
There, I said it. Should be enough to get me ejected from polite society, no? In my defense, I’m simply quoting birth-control hero Margaret Sanger, whose surprising statement George Marlin explains over at the Catholic Thing . . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend wrote me today, saying, “When I was studying philosophy in graduate school I never imagined that I would live to see a thoughtful profile in the New York Times on Alvin Plantinga, let alone a respectful discussion of his new book on religion and science and the renaissance of . . . . Continue Reading »
This is unbelievable—except it isn’t: A front page story in today’s SF Chronicle, headlined “Keeping Hope Alive,” purportedly concerns local young woman named Katie Sharify, who was the last patient to receive an injection (adult stem cells made from . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things is a magazine devoted to exploring issues of religion and public life, and like it or not the biggest such issue today is the debate over Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. I’m not at all surprised that many his find his public displays of piety off-putting, but I have been struck by . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , George Weigel praises the cardinal archbishop of Sydney: Pell, who is more a Melbournian than a Sydneysider (although he has been metropolitan archbishop of both great sees), sometimes makes reference to his great Melbourne predecessor, Daniel Mannix, archbishop . . . . Continue Reading »
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