A good teacher knows where he wants to take his students but begins where they are. A teacher who can’t speak the language of his students won’t be able to teach them his. And this is one of the key features of Christianity. It sneaks into a culture wrecked and dysfunctional and cures it from [...]

With the change in American political administrations, I’ve been hearing loads of chatter (and fear mongering) about the freedom of religious speech.  One example is around so-called hate-speech legislation and the Fairness Doctrine.
Another and more intersting example is highlighted in a recent Pew study on government funding of faith-based social services. The results seem conflicted, which [...]

Leading up to the election, there was a lot of chatter about President Obama’s religion. He himself said he was a Christian, but for many believers, that wasn’t enough. There were still questions. (Personally, I take Obama at his word. Only God knows his heart. If he says he’s a [...]

What’s your prayer for President Barack Obama?

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently published a study comparing the religious makeup of the US Congress compared to that of the American public.
The operative question seems to be, “Does Congress look like America in terms of religious tradition?” Should it?
The short answer is that some larger groups (like Protestants, Catholics, and Jews) [...]

I get a kick out of complaints about President-elect Barack Obama inviting Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inaugural. Critics say Mr. Purpose-Driven is too Conservative-Driven on gay marriage and abortion—in other words: He’s not inclusive enough, let’s exclude him! It’s a variation of the old joke: “If there’s one thing I won’t [...]

To what church should the Obamas belong when they move to Washington?
Such a simple question illuminates all sorts of religious, personal, political, and civic issues in America.
Sally Quinn of the Washington Post airs her opinion simply: the Obamas should choose the National Cathedral. Why? Simply because, while it’s nominally Episcopal, it really includes all faiths [...]

Greetings! Just in case you can’t get enough of these introductions, here’s another one. I’m Michael Geertsma, a producer at Back to God, and I’ll be occasionally contributing to Think Christian. Currently, I work on two other projects—Spotlight, a radio program for people around the world who speak English as a second language, and Walk [...]

Most of what passes for popular Christian political dialogue has been either strident complaints against the evilness of a candidate or declarations of the God-ordained annointing of another.

This morning I noticed on my blog that I was getting a huge number of hits for “Obama Revelation 13.” (See: Apocalyptic satire as Holy Spirit blasphemy). Then I noticed that James McGrath is also experiencing the same surge at his blog: Obama Revelations. Well, after a bit of research using Google News Search, I [...]