Re-Launching “Can I Believe?”
COVID-19 has affected matters great and small. Among the smaller matters has been the launch of my latest book, Can I Believe?...
Why “Mere Christianity” Should Have Bombed
Sixty years ago, London publisher Geoffrey Bles first released a revision of four sets of radio talks by an Oxford literature don. The...
A Bestselling Thriller Author Gets Good Friday Wrong
In his popular recent novel, The Order, thriller writer Daniel Silva decides in the name of Judaism to launch a missile at Christianity....
The Inescapable Weirdness of Easter
Here comes another Easter weekend. So what? Chocolate eggs, downy ducklings, and fluffy bunnies—nice enough, but hardly the haul we get...
Is Hell Eternal?
People don’t suffer and die in hell because God chooses to torture and kill them.
Churches and COVID-19
I’ve held fire on this subject until now. But a number of folk have asked me to comment, and the court cases are increasing across...
Are Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel Lost?
One of the great obstacles to Christian faith in our time is the traditional teaching that all who have not heard and received the Gospel...
Don’t Ask Me to Pray
Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...
Franklin Graham, John MacArthur, and Church-and-State
A few friends have seen this post on Facebook and asked me to re-post it here to make it easier for them to share. Franklin Graham...
3 Geniuses on Vacation
George Steiner, the literary critic, Wynton Marsalis, the celebrated trumpeter, and Doug Gilmour, the Hall-of-Fame hockey player, walk...
Cracks in the Darwinist Wall
Maverick computer scientist David Gelernter set off a grenade in the faculty dining room last spring. His essay, “Giving Up Darwin,”...
“On Earth as It Is in Heaven”—or Would That Be Boring?
The Lord’s Prayer teaches us to ask for more heaven on earth (Matthew 6:10). But that’s the last thing many people want—at least, it is...
Will Science Save Us? From What?
[This was originally posted in March 2019] The late neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks—he wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife...
Lightsails, Aliens, and the Greatest Discovery Ever
By now, you have probably heard of Oumuamua (Hawaiian for “scout”), the interstellar object hurtling out of our solar system past the...
How are we doing?
“Not too bad.” That’s the common reply on the prairies to a friendly “How are you?” It’s also common out here in my new home in the...
Christianity Is Weird, but Perhaps Not as Weird as Your Think
Christianity has what I sometimes call a “double weirdness problem.” Elements of its teaching that are truly strange—such as the...
Digging Out
There are two tragedies in life, to paraphrase the famous line from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. One is to fail to gain your...
