Gay Marriage & Guns: A Cru...
Guns and gay marriage are two issues being hotly debated in the public square these days. While they aren’t new issues to American...
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Killing Calvinism: A Book Revi...
Some books elicit interest due to their subject matter. Others do so because of their literary quality. For me, the title Killing...
read moreFinding God: A Book Review
Many believers are moved by hearing other Christians share accounts of their conversion experiences. In fact, one of the hallmarks of...
read moreA Little Book With A Lot To Sa...
In 2012 I intended to write an essay commemorating the 50th anniversary of a useful little book that many young theologians don’t...
read moreF. Leroy Forlines: Theology fo...
Few people have had more influence over the theological commitments of Free Will Baptists than Leroy Forlines (1926-present). While...
read moreChurch Membership: Whose Idea ...
The Christian church constantly faces the challenge of tensions in its faith and practice. Believers have to look forward to heaven’s...
read moreA Legacy Remembered: An Interv...
One of the unique memories of my childhood was the trips from my home church to the annual Free Will Baptist Convention. Occasionally...
read more“How Firm a Foundation”: Refle...
As people committed to their Free Will Baptist brethren, the Helwys Society frequently attends denominational events. We believe...
read moreSaving Schaeffer
On a shelf in the library archives of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is a box. Inside is an aging, well-worn Bible....
read moreA Twenty-first Century Reforma...
Every year a new round of publications on the Protestant Reformation checker the pages of academic catalogs around this time. While...
read moreReligion for the Weak
“Who did Jesus come for?” This is not the typical way we frame the purpose of Jesus’ coming. Usually we think about the cross,...
read moreGreat Is Thy Faithfulness? An ...
One character trait that I admire in a biblical scholar is his/her willingness to tackle tough subjects. They focus on aspects of...
read moreArminius on the Human Conditio...
Determining what’s wrong with people is arguably the most important job of physicians. But the task of diagnostics goes far beyond...
read moreWhat Is Worldliness?
“Don’t drink, don’t smoke; don’t cuss, don’t chew; don’t go with girls who do.” This humorous mantra is not so foreign to the ears of...
read moreDesire: A Missing Link In Our ...
What happens when right beliefs don’t lead to right behavior? Using New Testament language, we might simply call this “hypocrisy.” In...
read moreWhen Theology Gets Practical
One of the bestselling books of the 1990s was Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. In it, author John Gray attempted to help...
read moreThe Politics of Fairness
Essay by Matthew Steven Bracey and W. Jackson Watts “[W]e are in the midst of a financial crisis the likes of which we haven’t seen...
read moreWhy Food Matters—An Interview ...
I spent the 2010-2011 academic year working on a Master of Theology degree at Duke Divinity School. While this was a challenging...
read moreChange Versus Tradition: Must ...
“We’ve never done it that way before.” All of us have heard this expression before. Whether at home, work, or church, this sentiment...
read moreThe Dangerous Powers of the E-...
In one of the earliest Christian sermons recorded in Scripture, Stephen states that “Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the...
read moreWhy the Book Is Almost Always ...
Originality is not a virtue often found in Hollywood. This claim is counter-intuitive, of course. Yearly we are ushered into a...
read moreThe Persistence of Place: Refl...
Some of the most important aspects of life are those we often overlook. Many of us, to some extent, acknowledge that it is during...
read moreWhen Technology Comes to Churc...
What happens when technology comes to church? For kingdom-minded Christians, this is the logical question to ask following my prior...
read moreIs Technology Neutral?
After conversing with a 22-year-old following a service, I realized my mistake. I had used iPods in a sermon illustration as a...
read moreAssessing the Arts
Essay by Alexandra Harper with W. Jackson Watts Walking through an art gallery can be an intimidating experience. It is not due to a...
read moreThe Scandal of Singleness
Sometimes others know us better than we know ourselves. Though the world sees through a darkened lens, occasionally it observes...
read moreRethinking Persecution
Christianity speaks to the entire range of human experience. It not only provides the content of our views of God, but it also guides...
read moreFirst Things for Christian Apo...
For centuries Christians have believed in the need to give a reason for the hope within. Apologetics (the defense and articulation of...
read moreLanguage Games in the Public S...
Ludwig Wittgenstein was arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. He insisted that words could only be...
read moreEvangelism’s Hidden Assumption...
Central to the Christian faith is the task of evangelism. Orthodox Christians affirm this need for witnessing in Jerusalem, Judea,...
read moreClarifying the ‘Culture’ Debat...
Culture is unquestionably a buzzword of the contemporary era. Evangelicals seek to “engage the culture” for Christ, while PBS...
read moreThe Church and the Pragmatic I...
Those who have a vested claim in Christ’s kingdom have the crucial task of discerning the voice of the Spirit amid the whispers of...
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