In March 2007, my 85-year-old aunt underwent surgery to clean out her carotid artery. During the procedure she suffered a stroke that left her right hand and leg paralyzed. After several weeks in the hospital, she was transferred to a…

In my two public debates with atheists (University of Illinois, 1985; Iowa State University,1988), there was one thing in which I utterly failed. In both discussions, my opponents spent all their time in the negative, attacking my belief in the…

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Most folks today have never heard of Dorothy Sayers (1893–1957). If they have, they probably know her as the author of a popular series of mystery stories featuring the fictional sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Only a scant few know that

I first encountered the word theodicy during a philosophy class on the problem of evil. …Coined by the German rationalist Gottfried Leibnitz, its dictionary definition is this: “a vindication of God in respect to the existence of evil” (

A sunken ax, a surrounded prophet, and a starving city.…
Though it may not be readily apparent after a cursory reading, each of these three incidents—found in 2 Kings 6—share two elements in common: they each involved a lost cause

“Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses . . .remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.” Psalm 25.6-7…
I love these words, but I think some of their beauty has been lost

For reasons cited in the previous essay, the first thing early disciples would have done to verify a document’s canonicity would have been to determine its apostolicity. They could have directly done this by being present when a letter was…

Every once in a while the discovery of a “lost book of Bible” is announced. Invariably, when this happens, questions are raised about the make-up of the Bible. Why, for instance, is the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament…