Mar 9, 2012

Social media are a means, not an end. And going viral isn't "mission accomplished," regardless of what it was that went viral.

Feb 29, 2012

“Knowing where your food comes from” is a foodie slogan today – but when bakery hygiene became a plank in anti-immigration propaganda, it was a public-relations coup for industrial food.

Dec 26, 2011

Terry Mattingly writes: For those who follow Christian traditions, Christmas begins when the darkness of Christmas Eve yields to bright midnight candles and the Mass of the Angels or the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The Christmas season then lasts 12 days, ending with Epiphany on Jan. 6. But things aren’t that simple in modern...

Feb 16, 2011

Recently many books have appeared in Russia dedicated to the criticism of Darwinism. The majority of them are the work of American Protestant, creationist authors...

Jan 5, 2011

More theologically conservative classmates, who were quietly ridiculed for taking the Bible “literally,” understood literature more thoroughly as a symbolic artform that communicated on multiple levels. The ones who thought that the Bible was a “nice story” that shouldn’t be taken literally all tended to view literature in a way that was almost slavishly literal.

Dec 19, 2010

Nov 17, 2010

"Where did I say you should buy so much stuff to celebrate My birthday!?"

Jun 11, 2010

Joe Carter writes: I’m concerned about the way in which evangelicals tend to embrace whatever trends and kitsch happen to be hot sellers at Christian bookstores. But I take comfort in knowing that most of this stuff is nothing more than a passing trend. What concerns me is the faddage that becomes a fixture. Fads still receive scrutiny while fixtures remain largely unquestioned.

Jun 7, 2010

This post is written mainly for the benefit of atheists who think that the "God Hates Shrimps" retort does anything to undermine or expose the belief, held by evangelical Christians, that the Bible teaches that homosexual practice is a sin...

Apr 9, 2010

Is this the end of “Historical Jesus” studies?