Mere Orthodoxy

At the end of August this summer, I’m going to be back in the college classroom for the first time in three years—or, technically, almost six years, since the last on-campus class I taught was in Spring 2020 and the subsequent three years were all online. I’m especially excited, because I will be teaching Greek history—which means that we will begin the semester by reading Ho...

Out of the dry brush of a Mediterranean island, thousands of years ago, a viper strikes. Bystanders recoil as a respected man, recently arrived on the island, shakes off the snake. Immediately, the bystanders ask those most human of questions: why? And why him? 

For Christian readers, this introduction is clearly a retelling of Acts 28. The Apostle Pau...

Francis Schaeffer, in his lesser-known essay Two Contents, Two Realities, once described the four requirements he believed the church needed to possess to reach the next generation:

Schaeffer made this list in 1974. Even if a church has not always possessed these ...

Earlier this year, Christian writer Tim Challies wrote Wise and Helpful Ways for Christians To Experiment With AI. Challies described how he leverages Claude and Perplexity for his work, including: summar...

Unlike Catholics, Protestants have no calendar of feast days for honoring our saints. We need to create such days—lest the memory of our blessed dead fade into oblivion. A. J. (Chip) Conyers (May 29, 1944—July 18, 2004) was such a saint, though he would have spurned the term. Chip had become an effective classroom teacher and a well-respected scholar at Baylor’s Truett Semina...