Some questions won't go away. The creed says Jesus was crucified "for us," but what do those two little words mean?
The years I spent preaching Easter brought me closer to the heart of resurrection news. They drove me deeper into the gospel.
A specifically Christian understanding of marriage doesn't insist on procreation. It insists that marriage mirrors God's fidelity.
I recently spent a night on the streets of London. I had two companions, who wondered if I was checking up on them in some way.
The U.S. may be heading toward European-style secularization. More surprisingly, several Latin American countries mirror conditions in the States.
In John's Easter account, people spend the day running around trying to come to terms with what God has done in the night.
Occupy Religion, by Joerg Rieger and Kwok Pui-lan
It is easy to conclude that the Occupy movement was a flash in the pan, enacted by disgruntled people without a plan or staying power, a passing whim to be forgotten. This book insists otherwise.
Evangelical and gay
Justin Lee's book is more than charitable to his Southern Baptist origins. But his heart-wrenching stories speak for themselves.
Supernatural romance
The act of sacrifice central to Beautiful Creatures works only because the characters' story is not entirely their own.