by Cliff Vaughn | Jan 8, 2015 | Opinion
Ridley Scott can’t or won’t shake faith on film. See “Gladiator,” “Kingdom of Heaven” and now “Exodus: Gods and Kings.” The latter stars Christian Bale as Moses in the well-known tale of the Israelites’ exodus from...
by David Fitch | Jan 7, 2015 | Opinion
The multi-site video venue church model (MSVV) has become in vogue among larger churches in America over the past 15 years. Some MSVV churches share the same mission statement, doctrinal statement, approach to worship and preaching, yet give independent status to each...
by Drew Smith | Jan 7, 2015 | Opinion
The biblical stories are replete with calls to believe and people who choose to believe or not to believe in God. Of course, the more familiar expression we use in speaking of this act of believing is to have faith. Whether we read stories of individuals in...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 6, 2015 | Opinion
Christianity Today and Biblical Archaeology Review recently posted competing year-end “Top Ten” discoveries from archaeology related to the Bible in 2014. Surprisingly, only two finds made both lists: an Old Babylonian tablet describing an early flood...
by Colin Harris | Jan 6, 2015 | Opinion
The New Year’s cover story of Newsweek was an article by Kurt Eichenwald on the “state of the Bible” in American culture. What is perhaps the most visible response to it by Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, seems to be...
by Robert Parham | Jan 5, 2015 | Opinion
“Everything in her working life is organized around the illness,” wrote Wilt Hylton a week before Christmas in a New York Times magazine piece about Laura Hillenbrand. His piece – “The Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand” – was a play off...