“What Does Religion Have To Do With This?”

Scripture’s Promise for All Nations

The Myth of Redemptive Violence

Defeating Foes with Cross-Shaped Love

What is Truth?

Jesus as a Model of Speaking and Living the Truth

Anyone Who Loves Father or Mother More Than Me is Not Worthy of Me

Allegiance to Jesus, Even at the Expense of Family

Darkness, Despair, and the Futility of Lamp-light

Light and Darkness Imagery in The Raven Among the many famous works of nineteenth-century American writer Edgar Allen Poe, perhaps none is more well-known, analyzed, or celebrated than his 1845 work of narrative poetry, The Raven. The poem tells the story of a nameless narrator as he laments the loss of his lover, Lenore. As […]

Morality is Metaphysical

The Moral Limitations of Empiricism

4 Free Resources for Studying the Bible

The Bible is an incredibly profound book. Through the texts included in the Bible, we can gain wisdom for life, come to understand ourselves and others better, and – most importantly – come to know the living God on an ever-deepening relational level. However, if we’re being honest, the Bible is hard to read, and […]

That They May Be One

John’s Vision of Church Unity The Gospel of John has been one of the most famous and widely-read books in the Christian Church from the time it was written and first circulated almost two thousand years ago, all the way up to our present day. John contains probably the most famous verse of the Bible,1 and some […]

Security in Obscurity

John the baptizer had gained a sizable following among the people of Israel. He was regarded by many to be a prophet, and indeed, to this day there is still a group known as the Mandeans, who revere John as the greatest prophet of God.1 His long-lasting legacy is a testament to the fact that […]

Listen

“Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening.” 1 For many Christians, prayer begins as a monologue, in which the believer talks to (or worse, at) God, and not much else. O what great a tragedy this is! While this first step is great (and certainly better than not praying at all), there is more to […]