LGBT leader Shane Windmeyer on his personal meetings with Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A: During our meetings I came to see that the Chick-fil-A brand was being used by both sides of the political debate around gay marriage. The repercussion of this was a deep division and...
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Christians in the Public Square
Chapter 7 of Tim Keller's Generous Justice provides a very useful summary of theologically sound advice for Christians in the public square. His thesis is that "Christians' work for justice should be characterized by both humble cooperation and respectful...
Neil Postman on the Story That We Need
In the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all...
Vote for Me!
I've just seen one of those rare birds, an Internet discussion that seems civil. And I'm in the rare bird! It's over at Quora, a pretty neat site I've not spent much time on but attracts higher-than-average-quality user-submitted answers to a wide range of...
New International Reader’s Version and Evangelism
I run a weekly outreach ministry mainly attended by lower-income adults with low educational and reading levels. The KJVs they got who-knows-where are often unintelligible to them, but they seem to truly want to learn and understand. (They listen so much better than...
Great Little Anecdote from Bob Bell
My old Hebrew prof Bob Bell just told this story: he was speaking to a Jehovah's Witness (who denies Christ's deity), and Bell was arguing that "at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow" indicates that Jesus is Yahweh. Jesus' name means "Yahweh saves," and if the...
C. S. Lewis on Epistemology
Do not be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority. I believe there is such a place...
Keller’s Answer to a Very Common Objection to Christianity
An exceedingly common evolutionary argument runs like this: “You can’t trust your religious feelings; they were just mechanisms developed by evolution that helped your ancestors survive.” Tim Keller gives a great answer: It proves too much. If that’s the case, then...
Jesus Among Other Gods
I was thrilled and deeply encouraged by this testimony—and it is full of great sermon illustrations. HT: Gerald McDermott
ACPADI Book Club—Creation Regained Week 4, Chapter 4: “Redemption” (With Chapter 5 and the Postscript Kind of Thrown In There)
I’m late, I’m late… I was on a professional development trip and I just couldn’t get the last post of the month out. I needed to redeem the time a little better, apparently. So here we go: Redemption. First I’ll just tick off a few reflections: Normally I’m...
Love the Lord with All Your Heart
Several years ago our outreach pastor asked me to write some music for words by our church's resident lyricist, Eileen Berry. The purpose was to have a "theme song" for our church's Bible clubs. Because I worked at the weekly teen club, it also landed in the rotation...
Another Bibles International Story
Some Bibles International consultants have used an interview format to help teach certain skills to native translators. One team of national believers prepares a set of interview questions for a particular Bible character and another prepares to be interviewed as that...