(HT Russell Moore) A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they’ve heard the gospel, right there in the nation’s capital. The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that. If you’d told me that ten years ago, I would have assumed it was from the pages o...

Question:  What is Covenant Theology? Answer:  Covenant Theology isn’t so much a ‘theology’ in the sense of a systematic set of doctrine as it is a framework for interpreting Scripture.  It is usually contrasted with another interpretative framework for Scripture called Dispensational Theology, or Dispensationalism.  Dispensationalism is currently the most popular interpretative grid for Scripture in American Evangelicalism, and has been so from the latter half of the 19th century on through to the 21st century; but Covenant Theology remains the majority report for Protestantism sinc...

I am astonished at how many evangelicals think that it is okay to observe a Ramadan fast with Muslims. Christianity Today has published remarks from ten evangelicals, five (or perhaps seven) of which think that it’s okay to fast with Muslims during Ramadan. Douglas Wilson is the last of the ten, and he sounds the clearest note against such a practice. He writes: “It is not appropriate to fast alongside Muslims. I wouldn’t make a point, if I were in a heavily Muslim state where everybody is fasting during the day, of fixing a hot dog and walking outside and eating it … but to observe R...

(HT Eye on Apologetics) Four Christian apologists were falsely arrested in Dearborn, Michigan this last week. Dearborn, MI has a large Arab population and hosts an Arabic Festival each year. These Christians made many efforts to only talk to people who approached them and not to incite poor behavior from the Muslims in attendance. In spite of their cordial efforts the Dearborn police department handcuffed the four Christians in the above video and took them to prison without so much as watching the video tape they had of their activity. The pictures below are on the Answering Muslims Blo...

There’s a new kind of atheism these days, the proponents of which stand in adamant opposition to religion. Dr. Douglas Groothuis gives us a rundown of this “new atheism,” and shows us two key errors these new atheists make. A New Breed of Atheism “There is no God, and I hate him!” This seems to be the subtext for much of the “new atheism” propounded in books by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and others. What distinguishes this new breed of unbelief is, in part, its vehemence and vitriol. The gloves are off. Religion — all religion ...