Libertas, a conservative blog with an eye toward bringing Hollywood back to reality, has posted a suggestion for a sequel to The Passon of the Christ, based on the life and martyrdom of the apostles. 
The Passion has probably made nearly a billion dollars. Why? Well, for starters there is an audience that is more than [...]

In rabbinical thought from the first century, there exist two primary modes of teaching – hagadah (knowing/devotion/meditation on scripture) and halakah (doing the Word, walking in the Way). We in the Christian tradition would probably classify hagadah as “knowing the Word” and halakah as “doing the Word”. R. Abraham Heschel, considered by many [...]

To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again. I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a [...]

Chapter 1 of Velvet Elvis, entitled ‘Jump’ deals with the metaphor of a brick wall and a trampoline as ways different Christians experience their faith and understand doctrine. It deals with the difference between scripture and doctrine and the difference between thinking the right things and doing the right things.
Here are the study guides [...]

I’ve already had to use this several times today, and it condemns me just as much as anyone else:
“When you go into something seeking to be offended, you are likely to find what you are looking for.”
Indeed…

One of the best Christian books released in the past few years, IMHO, is Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell. Having purchased numerous copies of this book for friends & family, I was also happy to see the recent release of the paperback version. This, too, is leading to more [...]

And so I woke up one morning, the second Tuesday of last week, I believe, and sat down to breakfast, hoping for pancakes, but settling for stale cornflakes.  As the coffee settled in to the mix, I casually flipped through TV stations, stopping for a moment to listen to a NTSB profiler talking about how to [...]

Marlin & Sally Vis are Christian missionaries in Jerusalem, and Martin maintains a diary blog of his time there. They live in a palestinian section of Jerusalem and go to a lot of areas most westerners do not visit.
I had the pleasure of spending a week with them in a study tour early this year, [...]

As I listened to Mark Driscoll’s address at the Desiring God conference, and listened to his interviews on the DG website, particularly this one, I was reminded of a discussion held half a world away from where I sit, in southwestern Turkey.
We were discussing arguable one of the greatest ‘missionaries’ of all time, Alexander the [...]

I had some time to peruse part of the Godblogosphere today, and, while parts of it were interesting, a good chunk of it was downright depressing. Lots of folks seem abuzz that a Calvinist/Arminian-type debate didn’t happen at Liberty University (HT to brendt). Reading the he-said/he-said (women were apparently too smart to get [...]