Where does one begin in writing up such a remarkable Christian? His impact has been monumental, and he has left an indelible legacy for generations…
OK, a few qualifications here. I am not an artist. But I do know a bit about Christianity, so I may yet be permitted to…
Lenin once used the phrase “useful idiots” to describe Westerners who even if well-intentioned, were aiding and abetting the Communists in their attempts to overthrow…
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is one of my favourite writers, and his 1908 volume Orthodoxy is one of my favourite books. He was an English…
This pastor, apologist and writer had a profound impact on evangelicalism in the second half of the twentieth century, and his impact is still very…
Now that I have caught your attention by means of a deliberately provocative question, let me start by asking another question: Will Christians be voting…
Apologetics seeks to do several things: present the attractiveness of the Christian faith; demonstrate the reasonableness of Christianity; and clear up misconceptions and faulty understandings…
In the past several years many thousands of books have been published. Hundreds of those are important. Dozens are quite significant, at least from a…
On actually reading and listening to your opponents: It is quite easy to be an armchair critic. It is quite easy to attack something that…
Many former God-haters have either converted or passed on: There is an old religious joke about a few quotations graffitied on a bathroom wall. The…
So who am I reading a lot of? Five years ago I posted an article listing all the authors I happen to have ten or…
On the falling star of the new atheism: The new atheists were all the rage just a few short decades ago. They now seem to…
Questions and objections about Jesus the Messiah: For 2000 years now, both Jews and gentiles and been confronted with the truth claims of Jesus Christ.…
The perils and challenges of getting older: I am obviously getting older, and the younger my readers are, the less they may know what in…
Determinism might be a nice theory, but we cannot live that way: Let me begin by noting that if we wanted to go much deeper…
More than ever their words are vitally needed today: Anyone familiar with the work of the Christian apologist, pastor and evangelist Francis Schaeffer, and the…
C. S. Lewis, cancer and grief: In many areas of life the ideal is to combine the theoretical with the practical. This is true when…
The New York pastor has left quite a legacy: The New York Presbyterian pastor and popular author Tim Keller has passed away, aged just 72.…
Here are five moving stories of those who renounced their disdain of Christianity: The Roman leaders, the Jewish leaders, and Satan himself all thought that…