Christianity at the Games
by Joshua R. Colson and Brandon K. Presley In the United States, and much of the world, sports are a major part of life. A 2023 survey found that the average American spends just over four hours per week watching sports-related content.[1] Extrapolated over one year, this average amounts to eight days of sports watching. To illustrate further how invested Americans are in sports, Americans collectively wagered a staggering 119.8...
Mandelbrot, Mystery, and Mathematics
Once, my husband bought some discounted tickets to a concert of a famed blues/pop/rock guitarist; I was happy to make an evening of it, since I enjoy dates, live music, and discounts. After waiting over two hours for the star to take the stage and witnessing the crowd of thousands that still happily welcomed him by singing along word-perfect with every song, I realized I had dropped in as an outsider. I was a new fan, and I had much...
Dominion and Care: Industrial Farms and Animal Welfare
by Brandon K. Presley On May 11, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that many may have overlooked. It did not address abortion, sexuality and gender, gun rights, or any of the other “hot button” social issues that we are accustomed to seeing on our televisions or social media feeds; instead, this ruling deals with a law aimed at bolstering animal welfare. In a close vote that did not fall along traditional ideological lines, the...
A Review of Fred Sanders’s The Holy Spirit: An Introduction
Published last fall, Fred Sanders’s The Holy Spirit: An Introduction is one of the latest editions in Crossway’s Short Studies in Systematic Theology series. The title of this particular volume leaves little to the imagination in terms of the subject matter. Sanders, professor of systematic theology at Biola University, sets out to introduce the reader to the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. More precisely, he seeks to introduce the...
Francis Schaeffer: In Memoriam
Why would a thirty-something, Arminian Baptist care about a Calvinist Presbyterian who died forty years ago today? The answer: plenty. The life of Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) has affected my own life, affecting the entirety of my worldview, as well as the lives of countless evangelicals. I consistently find myself reflecting on his life and ministry of Schaeffer, including how he ministered in his own context and how his work and...
Every Nation under Heaven: Biblical Nationalism III
In two previous essays, I explored the nature of national identity through God’s work creating nations at the Tower of Babel, forcing the children of Noah to fulfill His command to fill the earth, and then His crafting of a single nation from the man Abraham. Though we could draw much more from the Old Testament on the nature of nations (I recommend giving attention to the book of Isaiah), we turn to Acts 2 in the New Testament in...
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