Jesus isn’t the only way to salvation, insists TikTok pastor Brandan Robertson, who’s progressive preaching on the Chinese-owned and video-focused social networking service has reached millions. Aided by animated head movement and a fast-paced tone captured by webcam, Robertson’s concise video messages clock in at under a minute. More than 187,000 accounts follow him on the TikTok platform: his individual […]

It’s 2022, the Bible says nothing about how on earth are they still (Doing/not doing) that! If you have spent any amount of time in a local church, you have likely heard this, “It’s 2022, the Bible says nothing about (Insert church action) how on earth are they still (Doing/not doing) that!”, or some similar sentiment once or a hundred […]

I’m listening through C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra. If you haven’t yet taken in this work, here’s a bit of necessary summary: The protagonist Ransom is transported to the planet Venus, upon which God has just created the progenitors of another human race in our own day. Satan is also present via the person (or at least the body) of the antagonist […]

Book Details Title: Strange New World Author: Carl R. Trueman Publisher: ‎ Crossway (March 22, 2022) Language: ‎ English Paperback: ‎ 208 pages ISBN-10: ‎ 1433579308 ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1433579301 Item Weight: ‎ 8.8 ounces Dimensions: ‎ 5.5 x 0.53 x 8.5 inches   Is Sex an Identity? How did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, […]

Are nearly 40% of clergy really about to leave the ministry? It’s a question that has come up regularly in conversations among sociologists of religion since The Barna Group, a research firm that focuses on religion, found last year that 2 in 5 Christian pastors had considered quitting full-time ministry in the past year. As director of Hartford Institute for Religion Research, I […]

Mark 6:3 “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.” We know that Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father, was a carpenter by trade (Matthew 13:54-55). The above scripture, however, seems to indicate that Jesus also […]

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth. Genesis 11:4, NIV We all know the story. It is as old as the Bible itself. And it is as new […]

Archaeologists unearth monks’ cells and churches with biblical inscriptions dating back to the early Coptic era. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the remains of Christian ruins in Egypt’s Western Desert, revealing monastic life in the region in the fifth century AD according to the Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The church was built in the ruins of the Roman […]

It is both an underappreciated detail and a morbid irony that, as it celebrates the presidential inauguration of a man nearing his ninth decade on earth, the American Left shows more scorn than ever for the elderly and old age. Take, for instance, Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist and the brother of Obama’s White House chief of staff, whom Biden named […]