Based on a talk delivered to the annual conference of the Center for Cultural Leadership in San Francisco, California, November 7, 2009    Scripture is God’s scepter … the instrument…

Introductory remarks at the political symposium sponsored by the Center for Cultural Leadership in Saratoga, California, October 27, 2012  I want to start with a quote from Bill Clinton at the Democratic…

In “Beware of Under-Realized Soteriologies,” I took to task Mark Galli of Christianity Today and others for arguing that we shouldn’t expect to be transformed too much by the Gospel in…

The great division within humanity is not sexual, economic, racial, or social — but religious.  The great divide is captured by expressions like the City of God versus the City…

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart . . .  Deuteronomy 6:6 Few Biblical words are more frequently mis-defined and misunderstood in the…

So here is the problem. Man is a guilty sinner, God is a holy God. How can the two be brought together? The answer is the cross of Christ. Martyn…

In The Courage to be Protestant, David Wells observes that (post)modern “post-conservative” evangelicals (like Roger Olsen) really aren’t that different theologically from the old Protestant liberals (also called “modernists” at…

“Patriarchy” means, “father rule.”  The concept of father necessitates a child or children (“father” is not equivalent to “husband”), so the word patriarchy might be thought to imply that the…