The word "gospel" gets used so often in Christian circles that it has nearly lost its edge. But the original word meant something urgent — news from a battlefield, an

Discipleship is one of the most talked-about words in the church and one of the least understood in practice. We say we want to make disciples, but when you press

Some questions do not stay in the classroom. They follow a man into hospital rooms, funeral homes, lonely kitchens, and long dark nights. One of those questions is this: Why

Christianity makes a claim that cuts against the grain of everything the modern world values about tolerance and inclusion: that Jesus is the only way to God. That claim is

Jesus of Nazareth is the most written-about, argued-over, and culturally influential person in human history. He's been claimed by emperors and revolutionaries, artists and soldiers, mystics and skeptics. But who

The church has often handled mental illness the way it once handled physical illness — with prayer instead of medicine, with spiritual diagnosis instead of clinical one, with shame instead

There's a lot of noise about what Christians believe. Some of it comes from Christians who disagree with each other. Some of it comes from people who've never read a

Skeptics have been trying to bury the Bible for two thousand years. The manuscript evidence keeps digging it back up. Here's what the numbers actually say — and why they

The war between science and religion is one of the most successful myths of modern culture. It makes for a great story — the fearless scientist against the fearful priest.

A lot of men have heard some version of this: "The Bible was put together by powerful men at a church council who decided what got in and what stayed

The cross is the center of Christianity. Every major doctrine connects to it. The entire Old Testament points toward it. The entire New Testament unpacks it. And yet a surprising

The church has always lived inside political systems it did not create and cannot fully control. The question was never whether Christians engage the political world — they must, because