Every now and then there comes an atheist who understands aspects of the gospel better than many Christians. In an article in the Christmas edition of The Spectator, political commentator and atheist Bruce Anderson offers some stimulating reflections on the…
Every now and then there comes an atheist who understands aspects of the gospel better than many Christians. In an article in the Christmas edition of The Spectator, political commentator and atheist Bruce Anderson offers some stimulating reflections on the…
Writing for The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof once pointed to belief in the virgin birth of Jesus as evidence of that conservative Christians are a bit dim. There are even so-called evangelicals who cast doubt on the importance of…
Christmas Day and Boxing Day sermons to preach and another Christmas is done. This will be my eighth at IPC and I’m officially out of jokes and illustrations. The tank is empty, the screen is blank, there’s no juice left…
Read about a woman who cannot experience fear.
So said Woody Allen as he sought to justify his sexual relationship with his step-daughter. In one sense it is easy to dismiss Allen’s behavior as isolated albeit disgusting. But now David Espstein, a political scientist from Columbia University, has…
Al Mohler has posted some fascinating reflections on the case of incest involving a Columbia University professor and his adult daughter. That the case involves a consensual relationship between two adults makes it somewhat more complicated than one might first…
Al Mohler has posted some fascinating reflections on the case of incest involving a Columbia University professor and his adult daughter. That the case involves a consensual relationship between two adults makes it somewhat more complicated than one might first…
Maybe you have seen this before, but I just came across it. This is Leo Tolstoy’s take on Jesus, pitting the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount vs. the Jesus of the Creeds, namely the Nicene Creed, and of…
From Lyman Beecher’s Autobiography, p. 67: “East Hampton was originally settled by the best sort of men, and had never been divided in religion. There was only one church in place, over which three successive pastors had been settled during…
