Everything changed the day I met the Devil Critics charge that there are no real victims in our society’s headlong pursuit of the sexualization of teenage girls in the film and music industries. We ought to know better. by Dale S. Keuhne,…
The Joker Is Satan, and So Are We: René Girard and The Dark Knight, by Charles Bellinger, PhD
Part 2 in series: René Girard: The Greatest Christian Intellectual You Never Heard of Christ is not a character in the movie, but he is present throughout, in the sense that his defeat of Satan on the cross, through nonviolent love, put…
How Maya Angelou’s Class Changed My Life, by Margaret Feinberg
Ms. Angelou captured my heart and imagination not because of her fame, accolades or literary acclaim, but because she displayed such deep, rich wisdom. Maya Angelou didn’t want us to just have information, she wanted us to take part in the process of transformation.
Blogging in the Midst of Controversy, by Adrian Warnock
Is my blog free from envy, or am I secretly wishing I was as popular as the person I am condemning?
Surfing Secularism: Why Fighting the Rest of the World is a Losing Strategy for Churches, by Dave Schmelzer
Christians have been negotiating the relationship between churches and the wider, secular culture ever since there was a discernible “secular culture.” What’s new is how many young evangelical church leaders are learning to surf, rather than draw lines against, secular culture.
Associate Editor Tim Basselin Named to Dallas Seminary’s New Media Arts and Worship Faculty
“Tim brings a dynamic love for Jesus Christ, which informs and shapes his love for his family, his pastoral care for his students, and his passion for writing.” -Reg Grant, DTS
Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing “David and Goliath”
How writing a Book on David and Goliath brought America’s most beloved non-fiction writer back into the fold.
“I was so incredibly struck in writing these stories by the incredible power faith had in people’s lives, it has made a profound impact on me in my belief.” – Malcolm Gladwell
Wonderstruck: An Interview with Author Margaret Feinberg
Living wonderstruck is about recognizing that God is busting at the seams to display His glory, might, and power in our lives—and live on the look out.
Barna Group President David Kinnaman Interviews Lisa Whittle on Women in the Church
“Christian women fear being ‘outed’—that if our truth comes out, no one will love us or accept us and we will no longer be credible—when the truth is exactly the opposite.” -Lisa Kittle
Part 8 in series: Women of Faith in Leadership
On Petraeus and Producers: How an Email Trail Can Kill Your Movie Deal or Worse! by Phil Cooke
Remember that the moment you hit “send” on an email, you’ve lost control of it. In that moment of frustration or anger, what you write will live on – and it will be in someone else’s hands.
The Danger of Calling Behavior ‘Biblical’, by Rachel Held Evans
On “The Daily Show” recently, Jon Stewart grilled Mike Huckabee about a TV ad in which Huckabee urged voters to support “biblical values” at the voting box.
When Huckabee said that he supported the “biblical model of marriage,” Stewart shot back that “the biblical model of marriage is polygamy.”
And there’s a big problem, Stewart went on, with reducing “biblical values” to one or two social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, while ignoring issues such as poverty and immigration reform.
It may come as some surprise that as an evangelical Christian, I cheered Stewart on from my living room couch.
As someone who loves the Bible and believes it to be the inspired word of God, I hate seeing it reduced to an adjective like Huckabee did. I hate seeing my sacred text flattened out, edited down and used as a prop to support a select few political positions and platforms.