Leader Denies Muslim Women the Right to Choose

Book Review: Design Intervention by Mel McGowan
Looking around at many of the church buildings and facilities standing today, it seems that they either had not the money or interest in using architecture for more than building a roof. In fact, some church buildings are down right ugly, and one has to wonder what message these buildings communicate to the community around them. Is religion, or Christianity more specifically, just as old and irrelevant as these buildings? Architect Mel McGowan has been advocating a different approach to church and ministry facilities, and he captures them in his book, Design Intervention: Revolutionizing Sacred Space. M

Recapturing Evangelical
Amy and I are excited to be part of a new blog put together by Joe Carter at First Things. It’s called “Evangel,” and it’s meant to be a place where evangelical voices can be heard. Some of the great contributors include Justin Taylor, Russell D. Moore, John Mark Reynolds and Hunter Baker. Amy and I will definitely still be blogging here, but we also couldn’t pass up the opportunity to be a part of the Evangel project. Here’s the lead on my first post there: Though still relatively young, I would like to think that I’ve grown and matured in my understanding and perspective

What Can the Righteous Do?
Twice a month my church gathers for Monday night prayer. This week one of the elders (Tim) led us through a wonderful script rooted in Psalm 11. It’s so good I decided to steal it and adapt it to a blog post 11:1 In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain, 2 for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in hear

Endorsements for God and Governing
I just realized that I never got around to posting the endorsements we received for God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue and Statesmanship. He are some of the great things that have been said about the book, which contains contributions from Dallas Willard, David Wells, Os Guinness and many more: This collection of essays addresses the critical and perpetual questions of human society in a way that challenges both historic errors of Christian cultural and political engagement: complete withdrawal and utter accommodation. One of the most pressing issues in the evangelical world today is the right relationship between Christian ethics and secular law, and this v

Three Worldview Tests
I suspect that most people, including most Christians, give more thought to specific individual beliefs they hold than to the complete picture their beliefs convey. This complete picture is a worldview- it’s the lid of the puzzle box showing us how each of our beliefs fit together (if they do). Regardless of how much we think of our worldviews, we all still hold them. We all see the world in some way and process the information through the beliefs we hold about it. Since we all have worldviews, it’s important for us to understand them and be able to judge whether or not we hold a good worldview.