Have you ever heard this most famous of sermons preached? Today I came across a recording of Mark Dever preaching “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” at the Capitol Hill Baptist Church a few years ago. You can listen to the sermon online or read the transcript. I strongly recommend listening to it; [...]

Apologies for another short link, but this essay about the quest to discover President Lincoln’s spiritual beliefs caught my eye today. Lincoln has been “claimed” by Christians, non-Christians, and everyone in between as a proponent of their views, but apparently it is quite difficult to discern what he actually believed about God, prayer, and Christianity.

I’m not much of a sports person. When I was in fifth grade, the only game my junior league soccer team won all year was the one that I missed due to illness (a coincidence, I’m sure). But nevertheless, I found this New Republic essay about the moral crisis facing professional sports in America interesting. [...]

Mikhail Gorbachev, the architect of perestroika and glasnost, has outed himsef—as a Christian. During a recent visit to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi, he publicly confirmed his faith:
Mr Gorbachev’s surprise visit confirmed decades of rumours that, although he was forced to publicly pronounce himself an atheist, he was in fact a Christian, and [...]

Larry Norman passed away yesterday at age 60. In his farewell message on his website, he said, “I feel like a prize in a box of cracker jacks with God’s hand reaching down to pick me up…I am ready to fly home.”
“Dubbed by the media as ‘the father of Christian rock,’ Norman recorded three albums [...]

We’ve all heard the phrase “there are no atheists in foxholes.” It’s not a particular accurate phrase, I suspect, but it came to mind while reading this review of Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War. The book is not specifically about religion on the frontlines, but it does [...]

Interesting post at the connexions blog about the use by Christian preachers of this famous passage from Elie Wiesel’s Night in Easter sermons:
For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was [...]

Well worth watching. The message of this speech is timeless:

How have you been remembering MLK today?

How do you redeem ground that’s been tainted by an evil history? Cathleen Falsani writes about a church in Zanzibar that was constructed on the site of an old slave market. The result is an amazing symbolic statement, made not with costly monuments and elaborate architecture, but with the church’s physical location:
The Anglicans purposely built [...]

Remember the buzz last year about the third-century Gnostic “Gospel of Judas,” which allegedly cast Judas as a hero (rather than villain) of the Gospel story? We noted it here at TC, and it generated a fair amount of controversy and discussion, hitting the public eye just as the hype around the Da Vinci Code [...]