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

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...

The recent synagogue shooting in Poway, California, has focused attention on an abiding question regarding Christians and Jews: Is...

The world’s great religions offer what millions of people want: a sensible, straightforward path to life. That’s why those religions are...

The Walrus, a magazine not renowned for a sustained interest in Christian thought, in its April number commendably features a review...

We are approaching an inflection point. In geometry, an inflection point is where a curve starts to change its shape—say, from curving...

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

Evangelicals—at least, we white ones—are having a hard time in the public eye these days. Perhaps you’ve noticed. Jerry Falwell, Jr.,...

Charles Schultz’s classic TV special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was originally broadcast in 1965. And, a generation later, the problem...

Self-declared atheist Gretta Vosper held on to her pulpit in the United Church of Canada last week as denominational executives decided...

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...

Exactly zero news agencies would bother reporting that a local man encountered a dog who didn’t bite him, as he had feared it would, but...

“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...

As Christian leaders have defended Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson over this past couple of months and President Donald Trump...

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

When Nadia Comaneci scored perfect 10’s in gymnastics during the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the world took notice. That, we all...

Europeans do like their titles. And why shouldn’t they? They have some excellent ones. I was attending a meeting in Britain of university...