by Roger Olson | Mar 18, 2015 | Opinion
I grew up in a church that was committed to restoring the “New Testament church” – as it was in the first century. This impulse is called “restorationism” – the belief that the church’s main task in every age is to restore the...
by Roger Olson | Feb 18, 2015 | Opinion
I have read many newspaper columns complaining that atheists are unjustly discriminated against when they are excluded by nonchurch organizations, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and the Boy Scouts. Two specific cases come to mind. First, a few years ago a high school...
by Roger Olson | Feb 5, 2015 | Opinion
Every once in a while, I meet someone who, while exhibiting every sign of being a true Christian, denies the traditional Christian doctrine of “creatio ex nihilo” – creation out of nothing. This belief that God is before all things, combined with the idea...
by Roger Olson | Dec 3, 2014 | Opinion
Someone recently asked me to give some examples of how I would use hymns as teachable moments in a congregational setting. The question arose in response to previous articles I’ve written noting that hymn singing is problematic in contemporary American church...
by Roger Olson | Nov 24, 2014 | Opinion
Donald Kraybill’s book, “The Upside-Down Kingdom,” is a modern Christian classic of social ethics. Its basic thesis, well supported from Christian Scripture, is that the kingdom of God is a social order of reverse values – from popular, “common...
