As my friend Donald Guthrie, professor at Trinity International University and president of Ransom’s board is fond of saying, it’s hard being the local…
Race, Economics and Apologetics: Is There a Connection? (Luke Bobo; 2019)
Books / Community / Pluralistic World / Scripture
Embodying the gospel Margie and I heard Luke Bobo—no stranger to the pages of Critique—speak on this topic and hoped to publish his talk.…
Vindicating the Vixens: Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified and Marginalized Women of the Bible (Sandra Glahn; 2017)
Biblical women reconsidered No commentary contains the final word on the text of Scripture. Rather, our apprehension of the biblical text unfolds in depth…
Random reflections on lying
Discernment / Faith / Maturity and Flourishing / Scripture
“I’d like to move next February,” my mother told me. She looked me in the eye intently and repeated herself. “I’m going to move…
A Scholar’s Prayer (InterVarsity, 2018)
Faith / Scripture / Spirituality
A prayer for discernment Good friends of ours, Greg and Mary Jane Grooms recently introduced us to a poem, a prayer I have been…
Be of Good Courage
Faith / Scripture / Spirituality
It might be wise to resurrect a biblical greeting that was used when God’s people faced uncertain times—“Be of good courage.” The story goes…
The Birth of the Christian Worldview
Discernment / Scripture / Spirituality
Imagine a citizen of Rome thinking about the world the year Herod Antipas became tetrarch of Galilee—4 bc, the historians reckon. There are skirmishes…
Finding the Book
A close friend told me recently that he can no longer read the Bible. He isn’t as angry as Frank Schaeffer, whose Why I…
Resources for Understanding Scripture
Christian discernment is not the process of applying minds and imaginations to issues of life and culture. It is, rather, applying minds and imaginations…
At Peace, Always Troubled
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. - Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana (982-1054 AD, Tibetan Buddhist teacher) A sense of deep inner peace is a…