Confessional Evangelicalism
Dave Strunk

I grew up in a Southern Baptist church three hours from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and I never said the Apostles' Creed growing ...

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Heaven on Earth, Revisited02.09.12
John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

My friend Dan Treier offers an account of the "Heaven on Earth" conference on theological interpretation held here at Regent College last autumn, ...

Random Reality, Part 202.08.12
Science in Focus: Vanessa A. Fitsanakis

The complexity of the human central nervous system is astounding. A typical human brain has at least 10 to the 11th power neurons, 10 to the ...

"An Open Wound of Love"01.02.12
Jason Byassee

This was a hard book review to write. You can only read so much elegant prose inviting you to pray before you feel guilty for not actually praying. Richard Foster notes this difficulty, ...

The Fear Index02.06.12
Podcast

Robert Harris will keep you awake into the wee hours.

Generic Evangelicalism02.03.12
Christopher Benson

In Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism, John G. Stackhouse, Jr., professor of theology and culture at Regent College, argues for the position of generic evangelicalism, ...

The Big Chill01.02.12
Matt Reynolds

In contemporary America, the charge of "blasphemy" carries a distinctly archaic ring. It evokes images of a long-distant past, of Puritans in powdered wigs harrumphing at heretics. ...

Random Reality, Part 102.01.12
Science in Focus: Randy Isaac

Editor's Note: This week we begin the second round of our new series, Science in Focus. The point of departure for February is a chapter from Marcus Chown's 2009 book The Matchbox ...

Practicing Trust01.02.12
Anna Broadway

Every few months—if not weeks—it happens: another Christian article on sex is published, usually lamenting some trend or event or book that is out of step with the ...

Tinker, Tailor, Trilogy01.30.12
Podcast

Re-reading John LeCarré.

Talking About REAL Marriage01.02.12
Susan Wise Bauer

Here's the good news: Mark and Grace Driscoll have written a perfectly adequate book on marriage. This is not a small accomplishment. Scores of truly dreadful books populate the ...

Deep Attention01.02.12
Lauren F. Winner

In his 1896 guide to reading, Books & Culture, Hamilton Wright Mabie observed that "To love a book is to invite an intimacy with it which opens the way to its heart …. ...

Why Geology Matters, Part 401.25.12
Science in Focus: Jeffrey Greenberg

Geology as a scientific field does metaphorically have an axe to grind and lost ground to possess. It is commonly misunderstood, out of ignorance or disciplinary pride, by the ...

The Family Fang01.24.12
Gabriel Knipp

We have all had this moment: someone near us hurdles beyond normal social boundaries, provoking our shock and disbelief and, at some point, fleeting glances to see if there are ...

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times01.23.12
Jerry Pattengale

The "best of times and the worst of times" characterizes the contrast between many private and public institutions of higher learning. This divide was accented recently when Andy ...

An Ambitious Sociology10.28.11
D. Michael Lindsay

Christian Smith is one of the most prolific sociologists of religion in the world. In the 1990s, his research project on American evangelicalism produced multiple award-winning ...

A 17th-Century Turkish Traveler10.28.11
Laurance Wieder

Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels is too long to translate, and too big to write about.

Travelogue, ethnography, architectural and musical guide, dream diary and action drama, ...

Why Geology Matters, Part 301.18.12
Science in Focus: Heather M. Whitney

The ground beneath our feet can often seem to be the one constant in the human experience. We even use the term "grounded" to describe people who seem to be particularly stable. ...

Modernists Abroad10.28.11
Daniel Taylor

The essence of travel is putting yourself in a different place—and coming back changed. If you go somewhere and don't come back, you haven't traveled, you have simply moved. ...

Micro01.16.12
Podcast

Michael Crichton + Richard Preston = compulsive reading.

No Uncertain Terms01.13.12
Aaron Belz

Sixty-one years ago, Adrienne Rich's first book, A Change of World, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. W. H. Auden selected it—he later also would introduce such ...

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