Resources from 2026
Early voting has already begun here in Texas, where I live. On November 3, Americans will return to the ballot box for the midterm elections. For some of us, this is an energizing time. We love doing our part to participate in our republic and choose our leaders. For others, it is the most unpleasant experience [...]
Since the 2007 release of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, the Christian intellectual sphere has reverberated with talk of disenchantment, a historical process that helped create the modern world. According to Taylor, the old enchanted realm was “the world of spirits, demons, moral forces which our predecessors [...]
In a humorous moment in the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, looks into the camera and remarks, “You may ask, how did this tradition get started? I’ll tell you—I don’t know! But it’s a tradition.” This sets the scene for the movie’s story of Tevye adapting to the changing world around him [...]
I was wary when I heard how great this book was. In former times, the genre of a book like Bonnie Kristian’s In Defense of Evangelicalism was known as an “apology.” It meant a formal defense, a word to turn away attacks (the Greek roots apo “away from” and logos “word”). Being a self-proclaimed evangelical, I’ve heard [...]
In the spring of 1768, Voltaire famously remarked in his work the Épître à l’Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs that if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him (Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer). Among those so inclined, this line is often quoted as one of the first modern confessions of atheism. [...]
I’ve experienced some significant anniversaries recently. Two years ago, it was the 30th anniversary of the church I serve. Last year, it was 25 years of working with Michael Horton and Sola Media. And this year, my wife and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. These significant milestones [...]
Now that I am “somewhat retiring,” my wife and I have been seeking a community with which to align and share a life. Having presided, preached, taught and catechized in numerous local churches, I knew that there would be very few options available to us. Nevertheless, narrowing down our search [...]
When Dr. Fesko chose the topic of the imagination to introduce to our church his new book, The Cathedral of Theology: Principles of Christian Dogmatics, I immediately knew I wanted to read it. His description of a chapter about the place of imagination in theology was enthralling. Often dismissed as [...]
The phrase, “liturgical Presbyterianism,” may seem like a contradiction in terms but the American Presbyterian Church, and Reformed churches throughout history, have a long tradition of using approved liturgical forms for worship. A recovery of that tradition will help American Presbyterianism [...]
One year ago, on September 10th, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Twenty-five years ago, the United States was attacked by terrorists on 9/11. I will not attempt to wax eloquent about what these events mean for us today and what civic life is like in America in the wake of these evil atrocities. While these events stand out [...]
The second-century apologetic “Letter to Diognetus” declares, “What the soul is in the body, Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world. The soul dwells in the body, yet is not of the body; and Christians dwell in the world [...]
After receiving the Templeton Prize in 2020, world renowned physician-geneticist Francis Collins wrote in a prepared statement, “The elegant complexity of human biology constantly creates in me a sense of awe.” Collins’s reflection captures the wonder felt by so many in the scientific-medical community [...]
We currently inhabit a unique historical moment that the sociologist Philip Rieff presciently termed the "triumph of the therapeutic." The great secular project of the twentieth century made a specific promise: if we dismantled the external structures of religious law, we would finally be free from the crushing weight [...]
“From the Nile to the Euphrates” (Gen 15:18). The land God gave to his people included today’s Palestine, Jordan, parts of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. “It would be fine if they took it all,” said U. S. Ambassador to Israel and Baptist minister, Mike Huckabee. [...]
Even though John Calvin has been dubbed the “theologian of the Holy Spirit,” his theological heirs, Reformed Presbyterians, are sometimes maligned as giving the Holy Spirit the short shrift. I remember visiting a friend’s charismatic church during college and being told that I “didn’t have much of the Spirit” because [...]
