Blogs from Christian Authors, Pastors, Speakers

Francis Collins stands at the very summit of the scientific community -- and he is headed into a public controversy over the use of human embryos in medical research.

According to the Pew Research Center teens and twenty-somethings are “less religiously affiliated” than previous generations. To be specific, one in four Americans age 18-29 do not affiliate with any particular religious group.

New research finds little support for the hypothesis that marijuana is a "gateway" drug leading teens to the use of harder drugs in adulthood.

Matthew 24:37‑41 is a key passage some Christians use to justify an escapist theology, approaching this world with a “Why shine the brass on a sinking ship?” attitude. But a closer look at the context reveals a few flaws in this kind of thinking.

Teens who get less than eight hours a night at risk for obesity, experts say.

How to open the most important door of all, when the last thing we want to do is be seen?

Though speaking to two radically different audiences, Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga are communicating the same message. And it's one that has a great deal in common with the Beatitudes of Jesus.

College students last year used credit cards more than ever before.

So just how "worthy" must one be in order to come before God to pray?

Few concepts can match reincarnation in terms of being incompatible with Christian doctrine and the Christian worldview. The biblical view of history is linear, not cyclical.

First, let me just say that to assert “Christianly” thoughts on the topics of Islam, Muslims, and the Ground-Zero mosque is by no means to suggest that this is the authoritative biblical view on these matters. Merely, mine is an earnest attempt to filter these subjects through the lens of a consciously Christian worldview in hopes of finding that way which may be most pleasing to God, both for myself and the church at large.