Robert Frost, America’s grand old man of poetry in the twentieth century, occasionally explored God and faith in his earlier poems. Then, entering his seventies after a decade of great personal loss—his wife’s death, the death of one of his daughters shortly after childbirth, and the suicide of another—Frost wrote two poetic dramas filled with... Continue Reading

Our point of debate is what the legitimate and most beneficial means are for accomplishing this. But it is sheer political fantasy that in Matthew 25 Jesus was mandating a government engineered transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor The “conversation” between the evangelical left and right is heating up as President Obama,... Continue Reading

“There is no other object of knowledge in the universe that exposes proud, man-exalting thinking like the cross does. Only humble, Christ-exalting thinking can survive in the presence of the cross.” – John Piper Near the conclusion of his Desiring God National Conference message entitled: “The Life of the Mind and the Love of God”,... Continue Reading

But, while not all of us are called to adopt, the Christian Scriptures tell us that all of us are called to care “widows and orphans in their distress” I will never forget seeing her pull the measuring tape out of her purse as she talked about the skull of her child. The woman, standing... Continue Reading

I have heard endless claims that there is no incompatibility between yoga and Christianity because it makes people feel better, it helps spirituality, it is a better way to know God, etc. Well, you never know what a day holds. Thursday morning, Yahoo put the Associated Press story about my article on yoga on its... Continue Reading

Where was God when Kelly was freezing to death on Mount Hood? For me, it is not whether I should ask such a question, but how I ask it… Once the primal anger settles to a low boil, we can—and, I would submit, should—ask the question. Midnight, it is said, is the portal between this... Continue Reading

Large numbers of Mormons watch Beck, but likely an even larger number of his viewers and radio listeners are evangelical Protestants who have no idea that Beck is preaching to them an obscure prophecy of the Latter-day Saints In one of his first appearances on Fox News, Glenn Beck sent a coded message to the... Continue Reading

If CT is known for one thing it’s their penchant for writing favorable reviews of most everyone under the broad label “evangelical.” So why such a condescending piece on one of evangelicalism’s most well-known leaders? Albert Mohler certainly doesn’t need me to defend him, and Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of evangelicalism, certainly doesn’t have... Continue Reading

This week, another super documentary hit the theaters. It is called Waiting for Superman. Hoping to entertain, instruct and move to action, Oscar winner David Guggenheim (who also filmed An Inconvenient Truth) is rightly alarmed about many of our public schools. Our nation’s school system was once the envy of the world. Now it is... Continue Reading

I am haunted by the one question that seems so obvious and clear in the account of Tyler Clementi’s tragic death. In those days of crushing anguish, humiliation, and confusion, was there no one who could have stood between that boy and that bridge? By all accounts Tyler Clementi was an 18-year-old young man who... Continue Reading