In an interesting survey, LifeWay researchers solicited responses as to the “Top 10 Issues Facing Today’s Family.” More than 2,000 people from around the country were part of this project. What are these top 10 issues facing today’s family? Here are the results: Anti-Christian culture Divorce Busyness Absent father figure Lack of discipline Financial pressures… Read More
The Future of Evangelical Scholarship
Who is setting the agenda for evangelical scholarship? Too often, it is non-evangelical scholars. Recent examples include Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus and his other writings on early Christianity as well as the ubiquitous Da Vinci Code, which have generated a whole swath of evangelical responses. But are evangelicals forever doomed to take their cue from… Read More
Who Wrote the Letters to Timothy and Titus?
The authenticity of Paul’s correspondence with Timothy and Titus went unchallenged until the nineteenth century. Since then, more and more commentators have alleged that the letters to Timothy and Titus (LTT) are an instance of pseudonymous writing (pseudo = false; -nymous = name) in which a later follower attributes his own work to his revered… Read More
Is Polygamy Next?
“Who’s Afraid of Polygamy?” taunts John Tierney in a New York Times Op-Ed piece not long ago (3/11/2006). Referring to the HBO series “Big Love,” which features a husband with three wives in Utah, Tierney calls polygamy, not “a barbaric threat to the country’s moral fabric,” but “an arrangement that can make sense for some… Read More
The Da Vinci Code: A Myth of Christian Origins
The following is excerpted from an article I wrote for Reformation 21: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown is a book about a non-existent code to provide clues to uncover suppressed evidence about a marriage that never took place. But why cover up evidence that does not exist? How does one cover up non-existing… Read More