Every week, it seems, the Pew Research Center publishes a new discouraging, maybe even terrifying report on religion in America. We’ve been told, for example, that all the major Christian…

Theological Fitness: Why We Need a Fighting Faith is a call by blogger and podcaster Aimee Byrd for all Christians to be theologians. Here is a link to the book…

And now for something completely different…

A crushed rose. An unwrapped, dirt-encrusted lollipop. Something that has lost its value: goods that have been damaged beyond repair. We’ve all heard these sorts of descriptions applied to people,…

Imagine rolling green hills at twilight, speckled with the glow of round windows peeking from under eaves of turf, each opening to a scene of snug, domestic comfort. Imagine an…

“To be utterly lost in the woods is unfortunate. To be absolutely unconcerned about it is unreasonable. Yet so many people who spend weeks mastering a new video game, months…

Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church By Scot McKnight 255 pp.  Brazos Press.  $21.99. If the Kingdom is everything, the Kingdom is nothing. That’s the…

In the third episode, Charles Hackney places himself in the hot seat and allows the two “hard” scientists to weigh in on his chosen field.  With fear and trembling, Charles…

As children attending Sunday School, it is easy to become enthralled with stories of important, holy people, people who, though they had otherwise ordinary jobs and problems, God seemingly hand-picked…

Episode 2: Science vs. Scientism In the second episode, Todd Pedlar hosts a discussion of an important distinction for scientists of any kind, let alone Christians who are active in…

Victorian preacher and author George MacDonald has, especially among Christian readers, a serious reputation. Both for his seriously meditative fantasy novels, beloved of C.S. Lewis and others, and his seriously…

Knowing A bit of biography The Pre-Raphaelite Movement C. Rossetti as Christian poet Reading Our experiences with Rossetti’s work; Why she’s a spiritual midwife of the CFP http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174268 “Up-Hill” and…

Dan Dawson leads a discussion with Todd Pedlar and Charles Hackney to introduce the newest Christian Humanist Network project, “The Book of Nature”. The three scientists describe their respective scientific…

For many Christians, their faith was born, wholly formed, 2000 years ago. The covenant established in the New Testament provides, for many, all the equipment for living the Christian life…

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