David T. Koyzis

The eminent British physicist has issued this seemingly troubling  pronouncement ex cathedra: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the Universe. Though some may find this disillusioning, others will easily (and gratefully) recognize the measure of truth in his conclusion:Because there . . . . Continue Reading »

When I was around 6 years old, I had a friend, whom I’ll call Billy, who lived round the corner from us. He was in my elementary school class, and I saw him virtually every day. We would play at each other’s homes, and I recall our walking one day to the Sunnyside Market, which was . . . . Continue Reading »

In the midst of his peripatetic activities, my friend Gideon Strauss has managed to come up with another thoughtful post for the Center for Public Justice’s Capital Commentary series: Becoming an American.This decision [to pursue US citizenship] raises big questions for me: What does it mean . . . . Continue Reading »

My alma mater, the University of Notre Dame, released an Institutional Statement Supporting the Choice for Life on 8 April 2010:Consistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church on such issues as abortion, research involving human embryos, euthanasia, the death penalty, and other related life . . . . Continue Reading »

Reading this article in The Wilson Quarterly, America: Land of Loners?, has inspired me to return to a topic I took up early last year in my personal blog, Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist. That topic is friendship, something that appears to have eroded in our highly  mobile, . . . . Continue Reading »

It is all too common these days to play off love against justice. My friend and one-time colleague Gideon Strauss, now of the Center for Public Justice, has written a marvellous piece that properly draws an intimate connection between the two. It is worth republishing below in full:“Justice is . . . . Continue Reading »

What is oppression? According to the OED, to oppress means to “govern tyrannically, keep under by coercion, subject to continual cruelty or injustice.” There is general agreement, at least in the English-speaking world, that it is unjust for a government to infringe on such fundamental . . . . Continue Reading »

For those who care about the future of the church this Wall Street Journal article by Brett McCracken is worth reading: The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity. All of us are familiar with churches whose worship services feature bands, jugglers, and other forms of litur-tainment, and . . . . Continue Reading »

It may seem odd to relaunch Evangel with a post on the subject in the title, but ever since graduate school I have been exploring the complex relationship between Reformed and Roman Catholic social and political theories. Evangelicals should take note that, if last year marked the 500th birthday of . . . . Continue Reading »

Imagine, if you will, what it would be like if Christians were to hold competitions in chanting the Psalms similar to what we see below.If Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura (1912-2000) is correct (which is disputed), it is possible that the entire Old Testament was once chanted. Listen to this NPR report . . . . Continue Reading »