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The Village Church, a Southern Baptist mega-church in the Dallas area, recently disciplined a woman who had her marriage annulled when she found out that her husband had been looking at...

When some people read the Bible, they find God to be a little schizophrenic, telling us to stone sinners in one passage and then forgive them in another. Which...

I’m glad that we can still laugh at the death of the American Republic. The WSJ reports that everyone had a good chuckle at the Supreme Court this week during...

ISIS has beheaded twenty-0ne Egyptian Christians in Libya. What should the Church do? How do we respond? How should we think about their sacrifice? Why does God let this...

Exactly one year ago I suggested that we read through Augustine’s City of God in 2014. I’m happy to report that we accomplished our goal. I had hoped maybe a...

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story about a London fund manager who was given a lifetime ban from the financial industry by British regulators. The regulators determined...

Ann Coulter thinks that Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted Ebola and now receives treatment in Atlanta, is an idiot. She has much to say regarding the foolishness of...

A penalty in stoppage time decided Sunday’s World-Cup game between Mexico and the Netherlands. Mexico’s Rafa Marquez made contact with Arjen Robben in the penalty area, and Robben went...

The Wall Street Journal reports that a Malaysian court has denied a newspaper of the Roman Catholic Church in that country the right to refer to God as “Allah.” “Allah” belongs...

Earlier this week The Guardian ran a story about human sacrifice and ancient Roman history. During the third century BC, the chief rival of Rome was the city of...

I’m reading through Augustine’s City of God with a fantastic group on Facebook. Augustine wrote the book about 1,600 years ago, but I’m continually struck by how applicable his insights...

Last week, I asked if anyone wanted to join me on Facebook in reading Augustine’s City of God. The response overwhelmed me. I hoped about 30 people would join me,...

Are you interested in reading one of the most influential books in the history of western civilization? Do you have five or ten minutes a day? If so, you...

Mark Driscoll has been living with accusations of plagiarism for the last three weeks. A radio host spotted some suspicious passages in his latest book and asked him to...

Mega-church pastor Mark Driscoll just can’t seem to avoid controversy. He’s crass and brash, and he says outrageous things. He’s always making some Christian somewhere uncomfortable. This time, however,...