What Are They Teaching?

In the classic C. S. Lewis tale “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” the Professor offers his disbelief at how little the children seem to know about logic. As he tries to help them reason through a mystery, he asks, “Why don’t they teach...

Five Major Errors of ‘The Da Vinci Code’

With the movie version of “The Da Vinci Code” opening in theaters, I thought it good to share some factual background and expose some excesses of the story. Nothing in recent history has sold like Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. Based on a fable...

Why Invite the NCC Head to Speak to Baptists?

When moderate Southern Baptists ran the Southern Baptist Convention, they kept great public distance from the National Council of the Churches USA. Contact was almost always under the cloak of darkness Moderate Baptists have tilted. At least now we say the “e...

‘The Da Vinci Code’

From the first scene, when Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere rumbles through his Grand Gallery to avoid a gun-wielding albino monk, you get the sense that this adaptation—if you’ve read the book—might be disappointing. From the first scene, when Louvre curator...

Fact, Fiction And Faith

With the movie version of Dan Brown’s novel “The DaVinci Code” about to debut, all the anxiety that accompanied the book’s success is back. Of course, we must account for the success, and the fact is, it’s a pretty good mystery action...

Regard for the Foreigner

Christians, for whom the Bible is a sacred text, will surely struggle to find a certain voice on the issue of immigration within the pages of their various canons. Fear and mistrust of foreigners is an ancient habit. The legal tradition within the Hebrew Scriptures...