One of the worst kept secrets of the historical profession is what I am going to call Ambrose's Law, after American historian Stephen E. Ambrose. Ambrose's Law states that the ...

The Bible describes the early universe as "without form and void" (Genesis 1:2). This is certainly true, according to Marcus Chown, in terms of how much information was in the ...

Consider it a great relief if your boyfriend or girlfriend has been less enthusiastic about Valentine's Day than the booksellers and magazines that have been holiday hound-dogging ...

A new book supplement from the Chicago Tribune.

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

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

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 12th-10 to the 13th glial cells, and ...

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, ...

Robert Harris will keep you awake into the wee hours.

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Re-reading John LeCarré.

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 ...

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 …. ...

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 ...

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

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 ...