Many Christians want to maintain the necessity of hell while also separating God from any responsibility for it. This gives them a tool to motivate people through fear while avoiding the negativity such a fear-based tool would create. 

This post isn't a deep dive into views of hell itself (I covere...

You've likely heard by now that Pete Hegseth has announced a public execution by firing squad. In fact, the Pentagon says it will be livestreamed. Nidal Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at a military base in 2009. It's a horrible act worthy of appropriate...

The most competent thing Job's friends ever did required no words.

"Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words." (Job 2:13, NLT)

Seven days. Then Job spoke, and the chaos began. 

If you have le...

What would you say if you found out one of your kids was gay?

Or maybe it isn't your child, but a family member or close friend who comes out to you. Some of you have already had this experience. I suspect quite a few readers are afraid of what to do if it happens.

You probably have an established...

Have you ever been told that the Bible is perfect and free from all errors? In fact, maybe you were told that you had to believe in the Bible like that in order to be a Christian or to follow Jesus. This view of the Bible is called "inerrancy."

If you hold this view of Scripture, or were raised wit...

When I was a Lead Pastor, someone in our congregation emailed to ask us to consider dropping a worship song that we regularly did in our services. You may be wondering what type of progressive hippie worship song we'd introduced to warrant such a response. Something with a djembe, presumably. A numb...

I have the audacity to believe Jesus will eventually save everyone.

I hold this belief for two reasons. First, I have a high view of God. I don't think the creator of all of the beauty I see around me is also a designer who will end up writing off a majority of that creation as a loss for all etern...

The singing had already started inside, but a handful of people stayed out in the lobby with me, in no particular hurry to join it. I was teaching at a church in Florida this weekend, and I'd been greeting people as they arrived. These few weren't heading in. One of them mentioned they didn't think ...

I grew up being told to fear the liberal agenda. The idea was that if I wasn't properly guarded, I would eventually become desensitized to homosexuality, or would wake up one day and realize I no longer had any morals. Whenever a TV show or movie would depict any type of queer affection, the reactio...

Last week, our online community had its monthly video chat. We were discussing the recent change in the gender gap for religious engagement between men and women, which I wrote about in "The Gender Gap Closed. Check the Fine Print." The trend we were discussing is that young women are less engaged i...