William Tyndale’s New Testament stands at the headwaters of the English Reformation and the reception of Protestant ideas into England. The year 2026 marks the five hundredth anniversary of William Tyndale’s (1494–1536) English translation of the New Testament first being smuggled into England and distributed to both commoners and nobles, clergy and laity alike.

The wise teacher of Ecclesiastes speaks about a place that grows godliness, and the location may surprise you. He says,

It is better to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting. (Eccl. 7:2)

Again, he reminds, “The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning” (Eccl. 7:4).

You might know what he means. Attending a funera...

The celebrated church father, Augustine of Hippo, wrote, “What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain to an inquirer, I do not know.”1 He made this observation after a lengthy discussion on the nature of time and eternity. While his discussion was more abstract than the que...

In John’s gospel, we read these familiar words:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. (John 3:16–17)

These two verses are filled with optimism and ...

Good Friday, which commemorates the suffering and death of Jesus, has long been celebrated in the Christian church. The historical record is unclear regarding how the church came to call this day “Good Friday” since the term is not mentioned in Scripture. Some have posited that it was originally called “God’s Friday” and later morphed into “Good Friday,” but most lingui...