Today we introduce a new feature to ThinkChristian: e-mail interviews with thoughtful Christians about faith and culture. There are many wise voices we need to hear from in addition to our own writers and readers here at TC, and we’re grateful for their willingness to join our conversation. (We’ll be doing the interviews by e-mail [...]

 
Dust I am. And to Dust I will return.
Everyone has to deal with this, the most basic fact of the facts of life.
I think about my friends and how their answers have changed and developed over the years, some in joy, some in despair.
Dust You Are, and to Dust You will return.
How does that change your [...]

Chris and I are at the Internet Ministry Conference this week! That means posting here will be a bit light, but we’ll be keeping busy blogging over at the conference blog. If you’re curious about the conference, be sure to check there for blog posts (or watch the conference Twitter feed) from us and other [...]

Are you attending the Internet Ministry Conference this year? There are only a few days left to register (you’ve got through Monday), so if you’ve just been thinking about it, now’s the time to act.
The IMC is hosted by Gospel Communications—the folks behind ThinkChristian—and there’s an impressive lineup of speakers for this year’s conference, including [...]

Donald Miller, author of best-selling Christian book Blue Like Jazz, prayed at the Democratic National Convention last night—and it wasn’t some non-sectarian generic God he prayed to. It was “in the name of Your son, Jesus”!
“Father God,
This week, as the world looks on, help the leaders in this room create a civil dialogue about [...]

Godblogcon is coming up again! Info about Godblogcon 2008 (September 20-21 in Las Vegas) is out, and it looks good! There’s a Godblogcon Facebook page as well, for those of you who do the Facebook thing.
Anybody definitely planning to attend? I don’t think the stars are right for me this year, but you never know. [...]

May has been a horrific month of cyclones (100,000 possibly dead in Myanmar), earthquakes (55,000 reported dead in China) and thousands left homeless by the most-active tornado season ever in the Midwest. So, where is God in all these natural disasters?
Rabbi Daniel Lapin wrote, following December 2004’s tsunami, that when God commanded Adam and [...]

So, today is the National Day of Prayer in the U.S. Are you doing anything to mark the day? The NDP Task Force site has a page where you can locate NDP events near you if you want to get involved in a public service of some sort. (Note that the NDP Task Force site, [...]

Last week, I was on hand to witness the great Hitchens vs. Hitchens debate, in which Christopher and Peter Hitchens clashed in a public debate about the Iraq war, God, religion, and other assorted topics. I’ve wanted to post something about the debate for a few days now, but have been trying to process it [...]

The Westboro Baptist Church has “graced” the pages of Think Xian before. But I was sent the following and wanted to pass it on…not that I think there are any sympathizers here. (Although some may agree with their beliefs but not their methods.)
Apparently WBC was “inspired” by the soap operish murder scenario of the pregnant [...]