Actually, Matthew 5:43 is pluralism. There is nothing “fascist” about this. Indeed, the opposite is true: it’s extremely pluralist.

In 1629, the first American balloting for an election occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. The matter at hand? Choosing a minister and choosing a Christian teacher for the colony. “Such is the origin of the use of the ballot on this continent; [Samuel] Skelton was chosen pastor and [Francis] Higginson teacher.” So writes George Bancroft.

This is what I mean by political seduction: I’m referring to the unhealthy marriage of politics and the gospel. I’m speaking about the church becoming an appendage to a political party.

Jeremy Begbie: Theology through the arts A theologian and professionally trained pianist demonstrates how music can help unlock the truths of the Christian gospel.

Jeremy Begbie is the inaugural holder of the Thomas A. Langford Research Professorship in Theology at Duke Divinity School and founding director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts. He teaches systematic theology and specializes in the interface between theology and the arts.

From our perspective, it is spiritually dark in our day. However, the truth of God in Christ has already so illuminated the world it is beyond our ability to comprehend just how dark it was on the day Jesus was born.

Is the evangelical church in America breaking apart? A revival of Christian truth and love will be the work of the Holy Spirit, not politics.

What is real? What is right? What is lovely? Human beings ask these kinds of questions because we long for at least three things: truth, goodness, and beauty.

From Eric Metaxas’ hot new book: An atheist materialist can’t even admit he has a mind, so how he can tell us the way the world works?

I’ve been thinking a lot on the fact that Jesus was born in a cave. Here is an expanded version of an article I wrote which was published last week at The Stream website: If you have set up your nativity scene by now you probably put the figures in a quaint, wooden stable.