From Philip Jenkins’ modern classic, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (2nd ed.): Any knowledgeable observer in the 1790s would have concluded that orthodox Christianity had reached its last days, and of course, this sensible...

Several blogs (Evangel, The Boar’s Head Tavern, and City of God, at least) have been discussing the meaning of the “Gospel” lately, and I thought I would chime in. In some circles, especially Emergent/ing and mainline liberals, the Gospel seems...

Writing in Eye, Kate Carraway remarks on what she calls the tyranny of stuff: “As my friends and I become more and more situated in our adult lives, it seems that the need we feel to both accumulate and keep random debris is informed by a secretly and...

In my previous post on determining the method for finding essentials, I discussed two steps in the process I think we need to follow to carry out my proposal: we first read for explicit statements that state what I defined as essentials, and then...

Continuing with my last post, I want to clear up the kind of methodology I think needs to be used to determine what the apostles teach are essential doctrine for the church. The first step in this kind of study would, I think obviously, be simple...