By: Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – October 31, 2019 If Halloween is supposed to be frightening, the holiday came early for me last night. The Nationals defeated the heavily favored Houston Astros last night to bring Washington their first World Series title since 1924. As a native Houstonian, watching my team lose was painful. But the Nationals are a great...

By: Jen Pollock Michel – christianitytoday.com – October 24, 2019 At his church’s recent “Truth Matters” conference, John MacArthur was asked to give a knee-jerk reaction to a series of words. The first was a name: Beth Moore. “Go home,” MacArthur answered to the uproarious laughter of the crowd. Predictably, social media exploded with responses to both castigate and defend MacArthur...

By: Christopher Corbett – stream.org – July 21, 2019 How can evangelical Christians support a so-called rogue like President Donald Trump? And more important, is our support for Trump destroying our witness for Christ? Trump critic Peter Wehner is Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He’s an evangelical with a conservative background, and someone I admire. He took...

By: S. Joshua Swamidass – wsj.com – May 9, 2019 As the technology advances, science and religion should each give the other its due. Science fiction often depicts artificial intelligence as technical minds embodied in humanlike bodies. Think Commander Data of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” In reality, AI is mindless and usually disembodied. Yet it’s still important, and scientists shouldn’t be...

By: Staff – erlc.com – April 11, 2019 Preamble As followers of Christ, we are called to engage the world around us with the unchanging gospel message of hope and reconciliation. Tools like technology are able to aid us in this pursuit. We know they can also be designed and used in ways that dishonor God and devalue our fellow image-bearers....

By: Kerby Anderson – pointofview.net – December 18, 2018 It is almost Christmas week, and I thought it might be worthwhile to spend a moment to reflect on the words to the hymn, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” It was written in 1867 by Phillips Brooks (an Episcopal pastor from Philadelphia). He had been in Israel two years earlier and...

By: Joe Long – stream.org – December 18, 2018 On display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is a poignant, not to say shameful, historical curiosity. It’s a so-called “Slave Bible” from the British West Indies: an abridged version of the written Word of God meant to communicate only the essentials of the Christian faith. Arguably it...

By: Scott Phillips – christianpost.com – 2018 Israel is mentioned more than 2,000 times in the Bible. And yet, most Christians have never visited. Israeli travel agents specializing in Christian tourism estimate that only 500,000 to 700,000 Christian pilgrims visit Israel annually. By contrast, Lourdes in France hosts six million pilgrims a year, and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico...

By: WND – wnd.com – November 5, 2018 Recent polling data reports that a copy of the Bible can be found today in 90 percent of American homes. Although much has changed in the world around us, the Bible remains the most popular book in all the world. “Throughout eons of human history, men and women have sought to live...

By: Dr. Michael Gleghorn – probe.org – November 15, 2018 The Place of His Birth Biblical prophecy is a fascinating subject. It not only includes predictions of events that are still in the future. It also includes predictions of events that were future at the time the prophecy was given, but which have now been fulfilled and are part of...