Practical Theology

Those of you who know me know that I don’t like to self-identify as an evangelical. The label has some usefulness, of...

“You can’t legislate morality.” I see this phrase come up in often in discussions of the government’s role in moral issues. Whether...

No doubt all of us are aware of the disparaging remarks that were made about prayer in the aftermath of last week’s...

We’ve been hearing a lot of warnings these last few years about the coming persecution of Christians. And a look around the...

What is religion? Most of us think we know what it is, but when we actually try to define it we run...

I’ve recently noted our society’s increasing loss of true tolerance, as well as the dangers of the current orthodoxy working to suppress...

“Love is love.” That slogan has popped up countless times in our nation’s dialogue in recent days. It’s part of an effort...

Atheists are fond of boasting that they can be perfectly good people without God—that is, without needing the threat of some all-powerful...

Another week of blogs, another contribution to the relentless stream of warnings to all Christians everywhere never to let music preference be...

A common tactic used in discussions about God and His actions is to claim that the other person is limiting God. It...