Tolerating the Unimportant

Gibbon ... said that in Roman society all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally ...

Prideful Deceits

Let's--all of us--decide to stop trying to convince the world that Christianity is true because Jesus makes us prettier, happier, thinner, wealthier, ...

Bored with a Boring God?

I do not know why so much of mainline Protestantism has become a joyless religion. Perhaps we are more impressed by the problems of the world than by ...

Real Success and Real Failure

Among the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways ...

The Puzzle of Bad Living

The puzzle is why so many people live so badly. Not so wickedly but so inanely. Not so cruelly but so stupidly. There's little to admire and less ...

Hollywood's Influence, Our Responsibility

Even if we personally avoid the movie industry products, those products will have an ongoing impact on both the dreams and the fears of our culture. ...

The Person of the 90s

Lee Strobel offers a unique perspective on life in the 90s: If you really are a person of the 90s: ...

You feel like life is whizzing past you at 90 miles ...

The Prevalence of Peer Pressure

More than a hundred years ago, Soren Kierkegaard warned that the age of the crowd was upon us. In such an age, said Kierkegaard, people would not think ...

Toxic Waste

TV is not just a vast wasteland; it is a toxic-waste dump. The problem isn't that nothing is there; that would be bad enough. The problem is that ...

A More Dangerous Stroll

We're so smart in America we can walk on the moon, but it's not safe to walk in the park.