Summit Ministries

The folks at Le Tourneau have made the four talks I gave there available online. You can find them here. These were given as part of the spring chapel series "Why I Believe..." My talks were entitled "Why I Believe..." (1) Christianity Drives Us Into Culture (and not away from it); (2) God is Good (despite the evil and suffering...

Monday and Tuesday, I was at Le Tourneau University (Longview, TX) as a contributor to their spring chapel series "Why I Believe..." What a great idea for a series, by the way! The students were terrific in engaging with the four areas I covered: (1) Why I Believe Christians Should Dive Into Culture Rather than Avoid It, (2) Why I...

My disclaimer: this really has nothing to do with worldview, apologetics, or leadership. But, how can I let today pass without at least offering a passing nod to the greatest annual sporting event in America? I thought of trying to develop some sort of theological syllogism to justify the addiction I have to the NCAA tournament, but I am not...

As a follow up to my previous post on Christianity and Art, these posts on the World Magazine "World on the Web" site by Tony Woodlief are worth reading: "UnChristian Art" and "Artless Christianity."...

Two Christian commentators suggested this week here that the New Age Movement (or western transcendentalism, or neo-paganism) poses a greater threat to the church currently than secular humanism. I appreciate the contributions of both of these men, and certainly agree that the New Age movement is experiencing new life in different areas of culture (i.e. The Secret and Oprah) and...

An article in the most recent edition of First Things summarizes the evidence on the effectiveness of various strategies of dealing with AIDS epidemic throughout much of the world, especially African nations. Essentially, he concludes that strategies based on traditional religious perspectives of human sexuality (abstention, faithfulness to one partner, etc.) are highly more effective than those relying on the...

I attended a lecture last night by accomplished New York City artist Makota Fujimura (Christian, World Magazine's 2006 "Daniel of the Year," world renowned artist, etc., etc.). I have long appreciated his thoughts on Christianity and Art (though I must admit that I personally have a quite untrained art palette...), and he has been gracious enough to offer us his...