By now, you have probably heard of Oumuamua (Hawaiian for “scout”), the interstellar object hurtling out of our solar system past the...

“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 has what I sometimes call a “double weirdness problem.” Elements of its teaching that are truly strange—such as the...

School boards in an uproar. Parents protective of their children. Teachers defensive. Students confused. The furore over creation versus...

From time to time Canadian Christians look again at the Gretta Vosper phenomenon, especially the “church refuses to defrock aggressive...

NASA recently celebrated the end of the unlikely long run of the Kepler spacecraft. Sent up in 2009, this marvelous flying telescope...

It is astonishing, and depressing, to encounter again the blithe arrogance of certain members of my class: the highly educated pundits...

Stephen Hawking gets one more chance to give “Brief Answers to the Big Questions” in his new book, finished after his death last March by...

It’s too good not to be true. It’s easy to feel that way when you come across a news article, Facebook post, speech, or seminar that...

Hurricane Florence is devastating America’s east coast while super-typhoon Mangkhut lays waste to the northern Philippines. Religious...

“But, Professor, I learned in church that God wrote the Ten Commandments himself on stone tablets and gave them to Moses. Isn’t that what...

It’s been a bad season for Catholics and evangelicals. Catholics are embroiled in a global scandal about who knew and did what about...

“I prefer to think of my bank account as limitless.” “I prefer to think of myself as universally charming.” “I prefer to think of traffic...

Sometimes God presses us right up against the wall of what we can endure. And sometimes God smashes us right through it. I sat down with...

Religion doesn’t matter. At least, it doesn’t seem to matter much in Canada. Canada’s cultural magazine, The Walrus, devoted its June...

David Suzuki, Canada’s leading figure on matters of science and environmental responsibility, is in the news again because the University...

A self-avowed atheist correspondent challenged me on a blog post which showed “Very Committed” Christians giving more to charity than...

Alas, Christians are denounced still today by people who are confident they know what Christians believe and practice, but who clearly don’t

I’ve seen Patton Oswalt in lots of movies and TV shows, and so have you: “The King of Queens,” “Magnolia,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,”...

If you listen to podcasts, you might want to take in this one. Christianity Today interviewed me recently and thus let me explain in some...