Singing with the Saints

Vern Poythress
Sep 28, 2021
For decades now, Christian congregations have had to deal with differences in musical styles in Christian worship. Some prefer "contemporary music." Others prefer "traditional music." The differences become a source of contention. Sadly, we now have the term "worship wars," as a label to describe...

Look to Jesus

Patrick Ramsey
Sep 28, 2021
Note: Read more from the author's "Runner in a Race" series here. One of the many lessons I learned from my cross-country ski coach was to keep my head up and look ahead when skiing, particularly when skiing up a steep hill. Going up a sharp incline is hard work, and it is natural to look down when...

An Impending Danger

Derrick Brite
Sep 24, 2021
Several years ago, I went hiking in the Smokies with a group of friends. This wasn’t a trail I was familiar with, and I wasn’t in the best of shape at the time. I soon began to lag behind the group. They would always return for me to try and encourage me and walk with me. My pride would always...

What Lewis Had Wrong about Hell

Paul Dirks
Sep 23, 2021
C.S. Lewis is among my very favorite authors, and The Great Divorce is arguably my favorite book. In the inventive work of fiction, the inhabitants of a gray, dreary, and inconsequential hell take a bus to the outskirts of heaven and meet with a variety of saints. The most powerful and poignant...

Live Not By Lies

Mortification of Spin
Sep 22, 2021
On today’s encore presentation of Mortification of Spin the dynamic duo becomes a trio, as a third pessimist—that is, a third realist—joins in. Rod Dreher is an American writer and editor, culture critic, and the author of several books, including The Benedict Option and the freshly released Live...
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Discard Entanglements

Patrick Ramsey
Sep 21, 2021
One of the most anticipated races of the 1984 summer Olympics was the women’s 3000m, featuring the American Mary Decker and the South African Zola Budd. Decker—who had won a 3000m at the World Championships the preceding year—was favored to win the gold medal, and Budd knew she could not beat the...

Reckoning with Tech

Arthur Hunt
Sep 21, 2021
“The doctrine of last things certainly has to reckon with all these things .” [1] The above quote comes from an interesting little paragraph in Herman Bavinck’s Reformed Dogmatics , “the concluding high point” of four centuries of Dutch Reformed reflection. [2] By “these things,” Bavinck means the...

Should Christians Take the Vaccine?

Mark Talbot
Sep 15, 2021
Does the Bible offer us any insight into whether we should take the COVID vaccine? I think it does when we think through the implications of the early chapters of Genesis. Right before God made the first human beings, he declared why he was making them: “Let us make mankind in our image, in our...

Forget Pickpockets and Broken Legs, Just Don't Hurt My Feelings!

Mortification of Spin
Sep 15, 2021
Our favorite spin slayers believe that Christians and non-Christians alike should care about religious liberty. So, Carl and Todd choose to revisit a prominent First Amendment case and note other offenses that are popping up all around. How should Christians view religious liberty and what should...
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On the Conversion of Children

Stephen Spinnenweber
Sep 14, 2021
Several months ago the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus provoked the ire of many with their controversial song, “We’ll Convert Your Children.” “You think that we’ll corrupt your kids, if our agenda goes unchecked. Funny, just this once, you’re correct.” The song continues, “We’ll convert your...