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Christianity Today is sixty years old this month. I remember clearly the day the first issue arrived in our mailbox. My dad was a pastor, and in its earliest...

Some of my friends are saying that they will not cast a vote for president this November. I understand the factors that influence their decision. I am not happy...

During the mid-1970s I spent an academic year as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow in the Sociology Department at Princeton University. The memos that I received from...

A dozen years ago, historian Mark Noll and I published a volume of essays—papers that had been given at a Wheaton College conference—on evangelical hymns. Noll is the real...

Abraham Kuyper was fond of appealing to John Calvin’s authority on various subjects, but when he turned to the subject of art in his 1898 Stone Lectures at Princeton...

In the spring of 1836, a few weeks before his Kirtland, Ohio, baptism into the Mormon Church, Lorenzo Snow met with Joseph Smith Sr., the father of Mormonism’s founder....

I have been reading a lot of back-and-forth about “trigger warnings” lately. Students who see themselves as victims of discrimination and abuse are demanding that professors issue warnings about...

My first sustained interfaith dialogue was with Mary Jane, when we were both in eighth grade in a public school in a town near Albany, New York. I had...

In the mid-1970s, the famous Mennonite theologian and ethicist John Howard Yoder visited Calvin College to give a lecture explaining the Anabaptist perspective on political authority. His opening comments...

During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell’s 1976 book, The Battle for...

Even though Rudolph had been around as a story book character well before 1949, Gene Autry’s recording in that year of the musical version of the saga made the...

To say that we evangelicals haven’t always engaged in respectful dialogue with folks representing other perspectives is to put it mildly. But there are clear signs that things are...

Someone wrote a letter recently to the editor of a denominational magazine, proposing that since the staff at the denomination’s main offices had been mandated at a recent ecclesiastical...

Recently I got quite caught up in a football game on television. It was a close match right to the very end. And in a dramatic finish the college...

We, a small group of theological educators, went to a Demolition Derby—a real one, with cars, and then trucks, smashing into each other in a muddy arena, and more...