Michael Craven

The Colson Fellows program is where trainees learn to take their place in this story through biblically grounded cultural analysis, discerning how...

The Christmas season is once again upon us and with it overwhelming encouragement from Madison Avenue to spend what we have not earned to buy what...

As we, once again, approach this national day of “thanksgiving” I thought it necessary to reflect upon our nation’s long history of acknowledging...

This is the question, of sorts, I recently posed to a local businessman. As I indicated in my last commentary, I have embarked on an enterprise...

A recent study found that 20 percent of non-Christians in North America really do not "personally know" any Christians. Christianity Today points...

Our first response to the California decision might be anger or even disgust, but when filtered through the lens of Paul's letter to the church in...

Russian president Vladimir Putin ignited outrage among the pro-homosexual community by signing into law a ban on homosexual adoption. The new law...

A rather obscure but important study conducted by the Swiss government in 1994 revealed some astonishing facts with regard to the generational...

It is the present form of Christianity—uniquely influenced by American culture—that is failing precisely because it has been enculturated with...

If Jesus commands us to “seek first the kingdom” then it is imperative that we know more precisely what this means. If the kingdom is as the Bible...

This is the question with which all serious Christians must wrestle. To think that Christianity is thriving in America simply ignores the obvious...

It’s easy to talk about “unity within the church” as long as we’re talking in the abstract. However, what do you do when a Christian brother or...

Anyone who has been a Christian for almost any length of time understands God as “our Father.” Having received salvation at the age of twenty-one,...

Christians have throughout the centuries—and most especially following the Protestant Reformation—arrived at very different understandings about a...

By reducing our conceptions of the church to an institution or organization to be managed, there often follows a decreased expectation of the...

Prior to Constantine, the church, although organized, was less institutional and more communal or organic. In other words, the outside world didn’t...

The brutal and senseless murder of twenty-seven people—including twenty children—at Sandy Hook Elementary has left the nation once again stunned...

This Christmas do not be swept away by the illusory claims of consumerism; instead, revel in God’s gracious gifts, drink deeply the joy of...