Evangelism, Writing, and Illiteracy: Five Responses
This is the second half of a series on evangelism, reading, and writing. In light of the astonishing decline of America’s reading culture, today I am considering five responses for Christians. During the Vietnam War, America dropped 7 million tons…
Evangelism, Writing, and Illiteracy: Four Reasons Americans Don’t Read
This is the first of a two-part series on evangelism, reading, and writing. In this article I examine the American reading culture. In the next article I will talk about how that should affect our evangelism and writing. Donald Trump…
Book Review: Religion in America Since 1945: A History
Religion in America since 1945: A History, by Patrick Allitt, copyright 2005. ISBN 978-0231121552, 384 pages, four stars. Several years ago, as I tried to understand America’s religious history, I stumbled across Religion in America since 1945: A History by…
Secularization and Sacralization
The Christian world-view is trapped in a massive tug-of-war. On the one hand, secularization undermines the very foundations of right thinking. Sacralization, on the other hand, is at the heart of restoring Biblical perspective. Secularization What is ‘secularization?’ In simple…
A Summary of Moses’ Life
Early Life in Egypt Born into a humble Levitical slave family in Egypt, Moses’ life was immediately threatened when Pharaoh ordered all Hebrew male infants drowned in the Nile. Though his mother Jochebed hid him for three months, she was…
The Psalms in History
“It is to be feared that the Psalms are by no means so prized as in earlier ages of the Church. Time was when the Psalms were not only rehearsed in all the churches from day to day, but they…
15 Books from 2015
A new year has arrived, and I’ve already encouraged several people to make a reading list for 2016. I read a lot last year; this list highlights the fifteen best books of 2015. A Pastor’s Sketches (Ichabod Spencer) – Perhaps…
My Testimony
Shortly after I was born, both of my parents placed their hope in Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death on a cross. They previously professed to be Christians, but until then, they only had a form of godliness. As a…
