Gustav, the category 4 hurricane threatening the gulf coast, is spawning theological implications.
Left-wing filmmaker, Michael Moore, recently claimed that the category 4 hurricane coming ashore during the Republican national convention is, and I quote, “Proof There Is a God in Heaven.”
RepentAmerican.com, however, saw Hurricane Katrina as a judgment from God upon “South Decadence,” a raucous [...]

Jesus declared, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6) and “Whoever believes in the Son [Jesus Christ] has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him” (John 3:36).
But most Christians disagree.
The U.S. [...]

The Sense of Events blog reports on an interesting-sounding book about Jesus and his relationship to the Jewish religion of his day—The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine, a respected Jewish scholar. From Sense of Events’ description, the book challenges the popular view (in evangelical circles, at [...]

I hope you haven’t made any big plans for today—the world’s about to end. Or so claims Yisrayl “Buffalo Bill” Hawkins, a self-proclaimed prophet in Texas. According to Hawkins, whose past predictions of the End in 2006 and 2007 have surprisingly not come to pass, the world will end today in nuclear war.
I’m not holding [...]

Is our world sliding towards hell in the proverbial handbasket? Is society today more evil than previous generations, and is it going to keep getting worse until Jesus returns?
There’s an interesting post at the IMAGE blog about the fall of ‘declinism’, in which the author Gregory Wolfe suggests that belief in the “everything is getting [...]

I had never heard of Eckhart Tolle and his “Oprah Book Club” best-seller, A New Earth, until a woman in a Christian writers’ group said she needed to leave early to catch the satelite seminar of the book. I do hope she was simply doing research and not an adherent to the latest [...]

Earlier this week, I had the chance to go hear George Murphy speak at Calvin College about a topic I can never resist: science fiction. His lecture was titled “Real Faith and Fictional Worlds,” and in it, Murphy talked about the increasing respectability of science fiction, the way that religion is (and often isn’t) portrayed [...]

OK, I promise this will be my last post on the Hitchens debate. But it looks like video from the debate is online, and you can watch the entire debate courtesy of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies.
The entire debate went on for about two hours, which is a bit much to watch on your [...]

Last week we asked you in our poll whether or not you believed in “black magic.” 219 of you voted in the poll, and many of you participated in a great discussion about the topic. If you’re curious, here’s the poll breakdown:
69%, an overwhelming majority, said that black magic is real and that it’s an [...]

I’d never this interpretation of Satan in the book of Job before. According to Tyler over at Codex, the satan in Job is not the same Satan in the NT:
The appearance of “Satan” in virtually all English translations of the book of Job befuddles me since it is very clear that Satan was never [...]