Great Expectations

Lech Walesa made the observation that "Americans are drifting away from spiritual values as they become richer." He said that "sooner or ...

Built on the Rock

Growing up on the Atlantic Coast, I spent long hours working on intricate sand castles; whole cities would appear beneath my hands. One year, for several ...

Don't Doubt His Death

A woman wrote J. Vernon McGee: "Our preacher said that on Easter Jesus just swooned on the cross and that the disciples nursed him back to health. ...

Flee "Establishment Fright"

It's not our position that sectarian prayer has a place in public schools, although a high-school course in comparative religions would seem appropriate ...

The Boring Church

Because we have been so willing to accommodate the message of the Bible to the limitations of contemporary culture, the modern world does not regard the ...

When Good Business Is Bad Business

The church appears to be adopting the principles and practices of big business and finding these practices very effective.

Now there is nothing wrong with ...

The Only Way

The Christian way is not the "middle way" between extremes but the "narrow way" between precipices.

Inoffensive Celebration

To avoid offending anybody, the schools dropped religion altogether and started singing about the weather. At my son's school, they now hold the winter ...

Moral Indifference

The current popular notion that judging others is in itself a sin leads to such inappropriate maxims as 'I'm okay and you're okay.' It ...

Our Open Road

The videotape of history seems stuck on fast rewind--as our post-Christian era comes to resemble the pre-Christian era: Material affluence amid moral ...