How to Be More Public with Your Faith

Helpful counsel  about how to be more public with your faith, from Tim Keller: It’s no surprise every poll and study shows the same thing: Over the past two decades, there has been a steady increase in the number of Americans who say they are atheists, agnostics,...

Don’t be like the bee

Chrysostom, commenting on 1 Thessalonians, with an observation from nature: Do you not see how the bee dies upon the sting? By that animal God instructs us not to grieve our neighbors. For we ourselves receive death first. For by striking them perhaps we have pained...

Poor Faith, and Poor Thinking about Faith

A couple days ago I posted D.A. Carson’s commentary on the incident in Matthew 17 when Jesus told told his followers they had “little” faith. “Probably,” Carson notes, this word “does not refer so much to the littleness of their faith as to its...

Good Citizens in a Tumultuous Culture

I appreciate Carl Trueman (who until recently pastored a fellowship not far from ours) as, among other things, an insightful thinker on public issues. For instance, recently on the First Things website, he commented on disagreements among American Christians about how...

What Faith Doesn’t Work

Here’s D.A. Carson, writing about the incident recorded in Matthew 17, when Jesus told told his followers they had “little faith”… “Probably,” Carson notes, this word “does not refer so much to the littleness of their faith as...