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View MoreThe second-century apologetic “Letter to Diognetus” declares, “What the soul is in the body, Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world. The soul dwells in the body, yet is not of the body; and Christians dwell in the world [...]
After receiving the Templeton Prize in 2020, world renowned physician-geneticist Francis Collins wrote in a prepared statement, “The elegant complexity of human biology constantly creates in me a sense of awe.” Collins’s reflection captures the wonder felt by so many in the scientific-medical community [...]
We currently inhabit a unique historical moment that the sociologist Philip Rieff presciently termed the "triumph of the therapeutic." The great secular project of the twentieth century made a specific promise: if we dismantled the external structures of religious law, we would finally be free from the crushing weight [...]
“From the Nile to the Euphrates” (Gen 15:18). The land God gave to his people included today’s Palestine, Jordan, parts of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. “It would be fine if they took it all,” said U. S. Ambassador to Israel and Baptist minister, Mike Huckabee. [...]
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I was blessed with a grandfather who modeled a life that represented an impeccably well-ordered hierarchy of loves. Jasper N. Dorsey (1913–1990), whom we all called “Papa,” was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, friend, churchman, patriot, and public servant. He was the most honorable man I have ever known. [...]
In this essay, I want to make the case that disciple-making belongs exclusively to the church, because disciples are made by God alone through the liturgy—the ministry of word and sacrament in gathered worship. Liturgy is discipleship; discipleship is liturgical. [...]
Holly Pivec and R. Douglas Geivett are apologists and recognized experts on the New Apostolic Reformation movement. I first met Holly and Doug in 2018 when I was publisher for Lexham Press. We had recently acquired the rights to their first two books on the dangers of this movement. [...]
