Last week, in this column, I wrote of George Barna’s recent research that indicates just slightly more than a third of American pastors (and even fewer parishioners) have a biblical worldview. “What’s ...

Why the NYC pastor’s goal is “to winsomely offend everybody.” For many preachers, it can be difficult to navigate how best to approach passages that name specific sins, command obedience, or contain ...

Empathy is usually regarded as a virtue, a key to human decency and kindness. And yet, with increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that it has become a vice. For them, ...

For eighteen years I preached through the Bible. I began at the first verse in Genesis and continued through the last verse in the Revelation. Where I left off in the morning, I picked up in the ...