At first glance, Planet Narnia may sound like an odd name for a book. But according to many C.S. Lewis scholars, it is the most groundbreaking study on Lewis's Narnian Chronicles in at least the past 40 years. This week, I'll be posting a three part interview with the author of Planet Narnia, Dr. Michael [...]

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Most polls quoted these days claim that anywhere from 80 to 90% of Americans believe in God. Some people find comfort in this statistic, but it actually says very little about the God or god they believe in. For example, included in that number are a rising number of pagans and witches. A recent MTV.com [...]

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We all expect the Spanish Inquisition to show up sooner or later in our discussions with atheists.  Does the presence of the Inquisition in Christian history discredit all of Christianity?  Does it render our past completely barbaric? Here’s a question that can help clarify the issues involved with the Inquisition objection:  Do you honor Thomas [...]

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It’s funny to me that while William Wilberforce needed to argue in his book, A Practical View of Christianity, that the religious affections–love, gratitude, joy, hope, trust, etc.–are a necessary a part of our relationship with and service to God, we have the very opposite problem only a couple of centuries later.  Today, knowledge about [...]

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Audio book, that is.  This month's free selection at Christianaudio.com is The Life of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards.  I love biographies, and this one promises to be very interesting:  Though he was orphaned at age fourteen, repeatedly struck with debilitating illnesses, and unfairly expelled from college, Brainerd allowed nothing to deter him from serving [...]

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I guess they got the idea for this from the Jews’ evil plan to use Tom and Jerry…   But don’t be worried.  It turns out that, as Christians, we’ll be much better off under Islamic rule…  

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I've always had a certain bizarre fascination with things that annoy me, and now, it has happened:  Someone has finally succeeded in bringing together everything that makes me crazy into one amazing conglomeration–including (but not limited to) certain New Age ideas (we're our own god, there's an impersonal base behind the universe, we should blame [...]

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Doug Pagitt and his emerging church on Christianity, including their view of you if you're conservative:     Now compare that to these.

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When a Christian comes up against difficult intellectual arguments against Christianity, there are two paths that can be taken (and indeed, I’m seeing this split occur in the Evangelical community).  First, one can take refuge in the perspective so dominant in our culture that religious values and spiritual questions are “above the line” of rationality [...]

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It seems that liberal Christianity is not the wave of the future that so many people predicted, as Charlotte Allen explains in her LA Times editorial: Liberal Christianity is paying for its sins.  [Please note that I know of many orthodox individual Presbyterian and Episcopal churches (and grew up Presbyterian!), so the following doesn't describe [...]

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