Two emails this week, both from Australia, raise questions about doubt, belief, and the Big Questions. Indeed, their questions come at...

COVID-19 has affected matters great and small. Among the smaller matters has been the launch of my latest book, Can I Believe?...

Sixty years ago, London publisher Geoffrey Bles first released a revision of four sets of radio talks by an Oxford literature don. The...

Scholars of religion well into middle age, as I am, remember the excitement of the so-called narrative school of theology breaking over...

Here and here are two recent posts, for Christian Scholar’s Review, on my recent reading of an essay by Christian philosopher Nicholas...

The stereotype of the schizophrenic is a poor soul beleaguered by a cacophony of voices telling him what to do. But we all now are...

Reading I Corinthians 12 this morning, under the tutelage of John Barclay’s excellent Paul and the Power of Grace, I’m reminded of my...

At this time of year, students are receiving back papers from professors with various forms of the same advice: “Please get help for your...

George Steiner, the literary critic, Wynton Marsalis, the celebrated trumpeter, and Doug Gilmour, the Hall-of-Fame hockey player, walk...

So says William Gibson, the American author who followed his wife to her native Vancouver and from there has spun out his tales of the...

I’m only going to say this one more time. Canadian evangelicals are not identical with our American cousins and not all aligned with the...

What is at stake goes far beyond the question of evangelical missionary work.

Farmers work harder during harvest than at any other time. But they also work happier, because they see every day the literal fruit of...

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...

“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...

“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.” Well, let’s see. Chip and Dan Heath, authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and...

InterVarsity Press has advised me that my new book, Partners in Christ: A Conservative Case for Egalitarianism, has been released....

Here is a lovely passage from the sprightly, charming, and ruthlessly honest testimony of English writer Jane Christmas as she considers,...

Good friend Miroslav Volf published a fine book a couple of years ago on A Public Faith. The journal Political Theology has released a...

I have blogged about forgiveness in some detail before, notably here and here. Today I came across a particular detail that is good...