One evening in 1995, at an evangelical Bible study in New Jersey for twenty-somethings, I learned that an acquaintance of mine had just dropped out of medical school and was planning to drive to a Hare Krishna ashram in Northern California. We were both tired of the kind of evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »
A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail by charles a. coulombe saint benedict, 264 pages, $27.95 Despite its frequent appearances in pop culture, the Holy Grail is elusive to us—even more elusive than it was to Perceval and King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table. Films that present it as a . . . . Continue Reading »
The task of narrating Christianity's global expansion is fraught. Continue Reading »
This Present Darkness by frank e. peretti crossway, 375 pages, $14.99 As a teenager, I was convinced that a spirit of false prophecy had attached itself to my neck. This spirit’s name—according to one of our youth group leaders—was Python, after the Pythia, or Oracle of Delphi. I did . . . . Continue Reading »
Joshua Harris has officially denounced and discontinued publication of his bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Continue Reading »
When I was three years old, I asked my pregnant mother whether Jesus could come into me as my baby brother had come into her. It was my inept way of saying that I wanted to accept Jesus into my heart as my personal lord and savior, an idea to which my Evangelical church had already introduced me. . . . . Continue Reading »
For Augustine, love is the most basic appetite of the soul. Continue Reading »
Reading Ink, I was taken back to the churches I attended in Pomona, California in the 1950s. Continue Reading »
Evangelical leaders are distancing themselves from the nationalist rhetoric that was near the heart of the older religious right. Continue Reading »
We must recover the role of women in spreading the gospel, in the way that some have reclaimed the connection between the gospel and social issues. Continue Reading »
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