Because Truth Matters
by Russell Moore
In order to preserve our heritage of advocacy for religious liberty, we must protect the centrality of the church. Many contemporary Christians argue that social and political engagement is for individual Christians, not for churches. The problem with this argument is that there is no understanding in the New Testament of a Christian who is not ecclesiastically located. A churchless Christian is, for the apostles, simply lost (Heb 10:23–31; 1 John 2:19).
by Russell Moore
Novelist William Faulkner once famously told students at the University of Virginia that the southern evangelicals so prevalent in his Bible-Belt ecosystem were not religious. Surprised, the students asked, “If they’re not religious, then what are they?” Faulkner replied, “Well, they’re Southern Baptist.”
by Charles Quarles
On the day the news broke that archaeologists had “discovered” the bones of Jesus in an ossuary in East Talpiot, a concerned Christian leader dropped by my office, looked at me across my desk, and asked, “What are we going to do?” My first reaction was, “What do you mean we?” I was already overwhelmed with deadlines on book projects. The last thing that I needed was another project.
Over the next few days I began to feel that maybe we had to do something after all. I encountered one Christian after another who was deeply troubled by the dramatic announcement. I obtained a copy of The Jesus Family Tomb on the day it was released and wrote a twelve-page response that was posted on my college Web site a few days before The Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary aired and then later on Darrell Bock’s blog. I did so for two reasons.
In the interview below Joe Early discusses his new volume, A History of Christianity: An Introductory Survey.
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Christianity and Islam: Encounters of Change, Conversion, Contextualization
Christianity and Islam are missionary religions. Both the Bible and the Qur’an present mandates to their followers to be missionaries for their religions. History has demonstrated that Muslims have become Christians and that Christians have become Muslims. Christianity is tolerant of Christians joining Islam, if not pleased that a Christian would become a Muslim. Islam is not accepting nor tolerant of Muslims becoming Christians. As Christians and Muslims live beside each other, work together, send their children to the same schools, and engage in more social discourse, they will need to dialogue about change and conversion. [Read more…]
