Did Jesus really die on a cross merely to inspire honorable, but otherwise unremarkable, lives?

Jesus Revolution is a good film. Not great, but not bad, either. Professor Stackhouse wonders, though, about the hole in the middle, where

Professors tend to be long-winded. (I'll give you a moment to collect yourself after absorbing that shocking news.) I can't think of...

In the recent Marvel series “Loki,” a character refers to the master of the universe as “He Who Remains.” That is all: the one who...

Mark 14:22-25 isn’t a typical Advent passage, but it provides a few clues about the coming of the Lord: “While they were eating, Jesus...

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

Observation: If you hear the first nine, it doesn’t matter about the tenth. The conversation is already over. Only politics remains.

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...

Faith is often defined as a posture, an attitude, especially a posture or attitude of trust. I have gladly defined it that way myself....

In his popular recent novel, The Order, thriller writer Daniel Silva decides in the name of Judaism to launch a missile at Christianity....

The world’s most popular religion, the world’s largest social movement, the world’s most believed Theory of Everything depends on...

Holy Week brings into focus a number of Big Questions. Among the most searching is this: What do we want? In particular, what do we want...

People don’t suffer and die in hell because God chooses to torture and kill them.

A friend grieves the news of a report on Ravi Zacharias’s awful sins. And there are more on the public record now that don’t show up in...

I’ve had reason recently to consider patterns of Christian leadership among evangelicals around the world. And among fast-growing...

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...

Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its...

I’d love to pile on Jerry Falwell, Jr. for engaging in, and then happily Instagramming, a yacht party (!) in which he, family members,...

how Christians are to understand other religions, the destiny of the unevangelized, the basis for salvation, the nature of general and spec