Bible

Nearly everyone I’ve known who is active in apologetic work deeply understands the necessity of the Spirit to bring about conversion. I’ve never met an…

While listening to your iPod and sipping a Cinnamon Dolce Latté from Starbucks, have you ever wondered if your pet will be in heaven? I’m…

Mankind is not morally neutral. When you share the gospel, you don’t speak to someone who is devoid of worldview commitments. You don’t witness in…

Whether it is a simple story or a complex history, a key element is time. It establishes cause and effect, act and consequence. The books…

The basic meaning of “myth” is a traditional story about gods or heroes: Athena sprang from the brow of Zeus; Hercules slew the hydra. Most…

The modern reader of the Bible—especially of the Old Testament—often finds its use of numbers strange. The ancient world did not use numbers for every…

The Bible is true! Why do you believe that? Because the Bible tells me so! Isn’t this just a big loop? Couldn’t anyone from any…

To Take Our Bible Into Our Hands Toward the end of the fourth century, a preacher named John Chrysostom said, “For we ought not as…

In our backyard we used to have a beautiful lime tree. One day I noticed that a thorny vine of some kind had started growing…

Is the Bible “history”? Did the ancient biblical authors write “history” as we moderns understand it? These questions are essential elements of the debate about…

I remember my good friend Mark’s quote in our senior yearbook as if it were published yesterday. Though we attended a public school, he didn’t…

A good example of an informed, gracious Christian’s participation in the salvation of another took place on September 19, 1931, at Magdalen College, Oxford. That…

Christianity is often confusing to the outsider and even to the insider. We often hear different things in different denominations, different churches and different college…

That’s probably why I ended up combining the study of law and journalism to become the legal editor of The Chicago Tribune—a career in which…

Some believers are suspicious of and opposed to apologetics. They view it as being contrary to faith. They fear that if Christianity can be shown…

The great psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) called Christianity a “fairy tale.” The phrase derived in the 1700s from the French conte de fées (“ story…