Celebrating Newman
Pope Benedict is getting ready to visit England. He will officiate at a beatification ceremony—the step that precedes the elevation of the beatified person to sainthood status. This pope has regularly avoided participating in these ceremonies. In this case, though, the candidate for sainthood is John Henry Newman, the well-known nineteenth-century theologian and churchman who […]
Glenn Beck’s Mormonism
Glenn Beck is getting mixed theological reviews from evangelicals. Some of them have expressed pleasant surprise at how “Christian” he has been sounding. Richard...
God’s Grammatical Preferences
Lewis Smedes and I were close friends for many decades—the friendship long predated my joining him on the Fuller faculty in 1985. He...
Christ Without the Church?
Anne Rice has been much in the news because of her announcement that she is leaving Christianity. No more church for her, she says. ...
Multifaceted Witnessing
In my recent blog posting on the “golf bag” image of atonement theory, I thought I was clearly defending the essential nature of substitution....
Using the Atonement “Putter”
I am no expert on N. T. Wright’s theology, but I know enough to reject those charges of his critics that he is weak...
Meeting Billy Berger
I resented Billy Berger (I’m changing his name here) for four decades. Sometimes, in the earliest years, the resentment felt like it approached outright...
God’s Two “Books”
Phyllis and I have been talking lately about what we sometimes hear as a reason why people do not attend church. It’s not that...
The Burqa and the Habit
The Muslim scholar and I were sitting at dinner together, and he was telling me about his involvement in a Muslim project...
Small People, Little People
BP, as we all know, is in big trouble as the oil continues to spill into the Gulf waters. But recently the...
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