Guest Post: Rick Copple. The condition of your marital relationship indicates the health of your relationship with God. Nowhere in Scriptures is this more clearly stated than in Eph. 5:21-33. I included verse 21, which says, “subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ,” because that context is so often missed in discussing [...]

Guest blogger: Jill Domschot I’ve often heard Christians use Romans 13:1 — Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God — as an excuse for complacency in the face of an authoritarian government. It shouldn’t be news, [...]

I’m not up on psychological jargon, but I’ve suspected for a while that I have ADHD. Or some equivalent. Whatever it is that makes one’s attention fix on something, then get bored, and then ricochet around until another “something” can be fixed upon. And then the process begins all over again. After 32 years of [...]

There is considerable debate among believers about church membership. While some ask if it’s even biblical, others debate how steep requirements should be. Must it involve baptism, a signed pledge, tithing, doctrinal profession, etc.? Then there are those who believe that dogma and rigid theological statements completely alienate our postmodern culture and misrepresent the subjective [...]

I’ve confessed to being in no-man’s land in the Complementarianism / Egalitarianism debate.  While I think it’s pretty clear Scripturally that Men and Women were designed to complement each other and that, in that union, men were called and equipped to lovingly lead, I also believe there’s far too much evidence (both Scriptural and sociological), [...]

Thomas Merton wrote often about writing. When he entered the Trappist monastery in December 1941, Merton renounced secular life—which included a very promising literary career. He gave all his journals, poems, and a novel-in-progess, to his mentor, a Columbia professor, for safe keeping. Merton expected to write little, if anything, ever again.  However, he almost [...]

One argument against America being a “Christian nation” is the plethora of esoteric philosophies and movements—from Transcendentalism to Freemasonry, from Hoodoo to New Thought—that have dramatically shaped our nation’s culture, politics, and religion. Mitch Horowitz, author of Occult America, writes, Scholars of American history have often dismissed occult traditions, such as Spiritualism, Mesmerism, divination, channeling, [...]

In our quest to design the “perfect person,” could we be stripping ourselves of essential elements of our humanity? Namely, our flaws? In his article, The Advent of Three Parent Designer Babies, Joe Carter reports that after the government backed the in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique, the UK may soon become the first country to [...]

I like me some Bob Marley. For his music, not his theology.  Shortly after I’d become a Christian and kicked the pot habit, I heard Marley say that the Bible says that God smokes marijuana. He even provided a Scripture verse to back it up! That caught my attention. I looked up the “proof text” [...]