Coming Untrue

“You need to dial down the language,   Mr. Patout,” I said. “Don’t you lecture me, boy,” he said. — From The New Iberia Blues by James...

In internet parlance, an “echo chamber” is a sociological phenomenon produced by the algorithms on major websites that respond to our choi...

“Should Christians in democracies feel obligated to vote?” Voting is not mandatory. Depending on how you think about it, voting can be a...

“We brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.” No matter how public our profile in life may be, and...

Two months before Zechariah began to receive messages from the Lord for the people of Judah, the prophet Haggai received his first recorde...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. David de Bruyn’s series of Letters to Stagnant Chri...

Skeptics of Christianity do not like the doctrine of original sin. “It’s bad enough,” they say, “that you Christians insist we’re all si...

“They … have gone after the Baals , as their fathers taught them.” Do you ever wonder why so many unsaved people get increasingly bitter...

Men and women are different in so many ways I’m not sure they’ve all been quantified. Of course, these differences exist on a spectrum. ...

“Why would God release Satan after 1,000 years?” Any answer to a “why” that is not clearly spelled out in the text of scripture itself i...

Major or Minor, the vast majority of the Old Testament prophetic text is made up of visions, oracles or messages from God through the prop...

Zechariah is the second of three post-exilic Minor Prophets and the eleventh of the Twelve. Like Haggai, he had a tendency to date at leas...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Roughly eight years ago now, I watched a couple of ...

Yesterday I was listening to a secular scholar again. (Okay, it was JP.) He was speaking about the Bible, its value as a text and its i...

It is often said that Christianity is countercultural, and I think that’s true — at least, it ought to be true most of the time. If Satan ...

As a consistent method of interpreting the prophetic scriptures, amillennialism fails at the most basic levels. That’s not a new thought...

“Is it inauthentic or dishonest for two Christians to remain married when they don’t get along?” It is simply a sad fact of life that no...

David de Bruyn’s blog series giving pastoral advice to various types of stagnant Christians continues this week with a post on the importa...

The second chapter of Haggai contains two references to the shaking of heavens and earth, the first in verse 6 and the second in verses 21...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. A friend recently sent me a link to this Kirk Duns...