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Years ago I published this short post on "evidential ammunition" for Christian apologetics. In the course of it I had a long quot...

We had some friends over the other evening, and the issue of petitionary prayer came up. Here was one set of questions on the table (in my p...

We were driving home from church today and passed a greenhouse with a Christian Easter message on its board: "Because He lives, I can f...

I recently learned that Bill Luse at Apologia has been asked to take down his excerpts from Whittaker Chambers Witness.  Chambers's gran...

It is Easter Sunday. Our world is growing ever worse. In the Middle East, the most merciless of enemies kills our fellow Christians in unspe...

I have recently been reading two books, both of which I highly recommend. The two are Colin Hemer's The Book of Acts in the Setting of ...

I have recently been discussing with a friend the hypothesis, put forward by some skeptics of Christianity, that the gospels show evidence o...

Dorothy Sayers has her character Lord Peter Wimsey say that the personality of Jacob irritates him. I have been recently re-reading Genesis ...

In this post at What's Wrong With the World , I criticized the ideas of the group some have called the New Homophiles. I dubbed them CH...

On the off chance that anyone reads this blog who is not also my Facebook friend and has not already seen my plug there, I want to take this...

Last evening was a hymn sing at our home. One of the children chose the hymn "The Banner of the Cross," which I don't believe...

In discussing creationism, intelligent design theory, and related issues on blog threads  and also in some of my scholarly reading (I think ...

She was indeed troubled just now. The blessing she had always wanted was to be herself a blessing, but [her patient] Joe Diggar had died. I...

Anita Dittman was born to a Jewish mother and a Gentile father in pre-Hitler Germany. It appears that her parents divorced when she was you...

The audio of this recording of the song "Angel Band" is one of my favorite music tracks, probably one of my favorites of all time...

This morning, it being a Sunday in the season of Epiphany, we sang a couple of hymns that should be more widely known by Christians of all d...

Now for something completely different. Several days ago I received some correspondence from a young pastor who has been sending his questi...

The situation for Jews in France and especially in Paris is dire. The recent terrorist murders at a kosher store come in a long line of dail...

If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to watch David Wood's video about his conversion. This post will be a bit of a spoiler if you h...