Marco Polo's Journey Parallels the Glory of Heaven

His Italian mother named him after the gospel writer Mark in the hopes that he too would tell the gospel truth. But 13th Century Europeans found it impossible ...

Learning to Hear Is a Gradual Process

Theologians use a phrase to talk about how Christ-followers are already redeemed but will not experience the fullness of redemption until they live with ...

Advent a Foreshadow of Good

Theologian Dale Bruner writes:

David Peterson, former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Spokane, Washington, told about a time when he was preparing ...

Adrift Without Faith

Life has an orientation, a final end toward which everything moves. I realize, however, that I can say this only because I am a Christian. I know that ...

The Final Victory

Some will tell you that triumph will come by the development of human beings--the gradual evolution of their potentialities. We should just give it time, ...

Augustine's Barbarians or Ours?

We are at a point in history comparable to the one occupied by Augustine. ... The classical vision had lost its power over people's minds, and society ...