I remember a time in college when my roommate was handing out copies of C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. Another student approached her and said, “I’m Jewish. I don’t believe in Jesus. I don’t even believe in God. Am I going to hell?   My roommate stammered something, but she didn’t really know what to say.…

I was intrigued and moved by an essay in the New York Times Magazine this week: The Tire Iron and the Tamale because it speaks to the nature of grace. Don’t get me wrong–there’s no mention of religion in this piece, and yet it is nonetheless a modern-day retelling of Jesus’ Story of the Good Samaritan…

“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate…

What happens after we die? According to early press reports, Rob Bell (pastor of the 10,000 member Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI) has taken up the topic in his newest book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived. The controversy over the book has become…

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