Resources from 2026
In an institution like the military, where soldiers must die, platitudes must die as well. Horace’s famous words, “Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori” (How sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country), grind to a halt before real suffering [...]
What does an elder who is leaving a local evangelical church because—in part—he felt this church wasn’t taking social justice issues seriously have in common with another Christian who is forsaking Classical Theism for Open Theism? Further, what unites these with a third Christian whose journey [...]
No Room for Post-Millennialist Optimism: Considering the Saints and the City of Chaos in Isaiah 24–27
Christians today join the saints before them in searching the Bible to understand what exactly God promises us about the Last Days. No shortage of speculation exists, and it would be hard to overstate the impact eschatology has had on Christian life as believers navigate the spaces of politics and culture. [...]
I have had the pleasure of corresponding with David Kirwa Tarus while writing my children’s book on Byang Kato (an important African theologian). I have a high estimation of Tarus’s work in his African context, and I am a firm believer in the importance of learning from the global church because we can [...]
One cannot exaggerate just how critical the sequence of events recorded in Chapters 11, 12, and 13 of Exodus is in the history of Israel, the church, and the world. What God does, says, and reveals to his servant Moses and his covenant people still resonate with God’s people today as the Lord [...]
Everyone is moving to Florida. Everywhere I look there are new roads, new subdivisions, new buildings piercing the sky. New everything. Several years ago, my oldest son and I sat and marveled as we watched construction workers scaling up and down a building using several stories of scaffolding [...]
Even for those who aren’t basketball fans, this year’s book publishing industry has ensured a little March Madness for us all. On March 3, David C. Cook released a book by speaker, teacher, podcast host and New York Times bestselling author Preston Sprinkle (PhD, University of Aberdeen) titled, From Genesis to Junia [...]
Richard Dawkins displays little knowledge of Christian theology. However, he is spot-on when he summarizes, “Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.” It’s interesting that the pioneers of early modern science were orthodox Christians who were especially allergic to occult forces within [...]
The Protestant Reformation sought to restore Christian doctrine and worship practice in accord with Scripture. But this had implications far beyond the walls of the church, impacting the home, the school, and society. Veteran educator Harley Atkinson gives us the broad sweep of educational change sparked [...]
Confounding the Arithmetic of the Righteous: An Examination of the Parable of the Unjust Steward
A trademark of Jesus’s earthly ministry was his frequent use of parables as he traveled and taught the masses. Chapter 13 of Matthew’s Gospel offers perhaps the best glimpse at this method, as the Lord deploys no less than six parables in rapid succession. [...]
Of all the fruit of the Spirit, gentleness has been the most difficult for me to understand. Through study, I’ve discovered that gentleness isn’t feminine, passive, or introverted. But even with these clarifications, gentleness remained a conceptually vague “vibe” that felt like a call to combine [...]
For most people today, AI is just a tool—like other tech inventions throughout history. But, as John Culkin observed, “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” It is beyond my competence to opine on the transformative impacts of AI. However, there is a profoundly influential movement among [...]
This is a tough time to be a professor of classics, the study of ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture. Howard University has joined the ranks of those scrapping classics degrees, Princeton no longer requires classics majors to take Latin or Greek, and some are complaining that the whole discipline [...]
Imagine a robber breaking into your house in the middle of the night. To distract your only line of defense—your dog—the robber throws a package of bologna on the ground. While your guard dog gnaws away at that tasty treat, the robber quietly goes about ransacking your home and stealing the things you hold most dear. [...]
In 2022, Ligonier and Lifeway published “The State of Theology,” where Evangelicals were surveyed about various theological claims. The results were startling to say the least. For example, 55% of surveyed Evangelicals agreed that “Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God.” [...]
