Humanity was created to have dominion over God’s creation in order to guide its progress and help it develop according to God’s plan for...

For the music director: A Psalm of David. v. 1 How long, Lord? [despairing David speaks to God] Will you forget me forever? How long...

Eugene H. Peterson and M. Craig Barnes provide a powerful challenge to contemporary pastors: your calling is not rooted in what you do,...

Christians approach the ethical task primarily as those who participate in the life of Christ. St. Paul states that “we are no longer...

I am a huge fan of the band, U2. I particularly love their classic 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. One of the iconic songs on that album...

America continues to struggle in areas of racial and economic justice. Housing appraisals in the mid-20th century north deemed...

During the Bush administration, the evangelical political consensus crumbled. Evangelicals had served as a significant force in Bush’s...

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung’s recent volume, Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice, provides a necessary exploration of vainglory, a vice absent...

The social upheaval of the 1960s, the creation of American civil religion, and Cold War tensions set the scene for the rise of the...

Some say that Jesus is “one mind, one soul, one being, as truly one as we are, and equally distinct from the one God” [1]. Some say it...

In the midst of mid-20th-century social upheavals in national American life and the threat of the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal,...

This past week, the American church has lost one of her Gandalfs among pastors, Eugene H. Peterson. As a young man, still grappling with...

The white southern church has long been criticized for its failure to stand up for African-Americans' rights during the Civil Rights...

In liberalism’s heyday, the progressive movement struggled to inspire supporters because it lacked the same appeal to tradition which...

In the Genesis creation story, God says, "Let us make humankindin our image (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ), according to our likeness; and let them have...

Numbers is a book for people living in the tension between the "now" and the "not yet". Israel has been redeemed from Egypt, just as...

Not only did antebellum Americans have “an implicit trust that the Bible was a plain book whose authoritative deliverances could be...

Vito Baldini, pastor of Mercy Ministries at Liberti Center City and Main Line, says regarding providence, “Situations of human suffering...

In the years preceding the Civil War, the Bible functioned as the “most influential cultural force” of the young country” [1]. Americans...

Evangelicalism at the time of the Second Great Awakening was driven by three primary motivators. The first was perfectionism, “premised...