In the wake of the Newtown school shooting, I’ve been asked to comment since I am a theologian by profession and the author of a book on...

Philosopher Alvin Plantinga buries a little gem of insight in a footnote to his massive Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) that...

This apparently bizarre question pops up over and over again in Christian worship and theology. It was posed to me recently by a friend...

I’ve just begun reading the new book by friends Mike McClymond and Gerry McDermott on my favourite theologian, Jonathan Edwards...

A few posts ago, I enjoyed writing to you about Steve Bell’s grandmother as described in a story by Steve and a song by Carolyn Arends,...

Over the last few years, I’ve posted several reflections pertinent to Holy Week. Some of you (especially those of you preparing sermons!)...

If you’re connected with the great big family known as American evangelicalism, you might have heard of pastor and author John Piper’s...

Readers of this blog know how I abhor ruffling the tiniest feather on the teeniest birdie. Nonetheless, I yank out a few–and get mussed...

In case you missed them, Oxford University Press published a couple of hefty handbooks to which your servant contributed chapters. The...

There’s an excellent new book out from my friend Richard Mouw, philosopher and president of Fuller Theological Seminary in California:...

A new interlocutor, G. Ehrlich, has engaged me in comments on the previous post on a range of matters. But, in his view, the main matters...

At the conclusion of my course in Systematic Theology this term, I offered a lecture on “Hell and the Goodness of God.” I give the same...

In a lovely note from someone in a recent audience of mine, two questions were raised. I thought you might like to read how I...

Dr. Alan Johnson of Wheaton College has recently produced a new collection of essays on gender. This one is quite new: It offers the...

(This post is aimed at Christians, and particularly “churchy” Christians, so feel particularly free to skip it if it doesn’t pertain to...

Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) has dismissed Dr. Bruce Waltke because he recently stated publicly two radical convictions: (1) that...

I love the sights of Christmas. My beloved spends considerable time and skill “Christmasing” our home and there is something beautiful to...

A couple of posts ago, I replied to Richard Dawkins’s charge that theologians don’t do anything useful. I replied in a couple of respects...

Richard Dawkins has been quoted to me recently as such (without a citation, alas: Can anyone supply it?): “What has theology ever said...

Here, in a recent number of First Things, itself a place of conversation between evangelicals and Catholics, is a special recent...