Timothy D Padgett

When religion is seen as non-essential, religious freedom is limited to “religious” activities like private prayer, church attendance, and personal...

The ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey doesn’t end abortion in America, nor does it legally ban abortion. It means that...

Fifty years after Watergate, headlines are still telling of government corruption and political abuse. Among the lessons we can learn from...

n any context, because it always involves fallen human beings, forgiveness isn’t easy. In this cultural moment, so deeply divided at such...

The Apostle Paul gives us something to do at times like this: “Mourn with those who mourn.” This instruction matches the incarnational way that...

 Sexual abuse is just as horrible and evil within the Church as without, yet we are more guilty because we should know better. We know where...

As the Apostle Peter claimed, Christianity is not rooted in “cleverly devised myths,” but in the real account of actions in the real world. Bits of...

In the last 50 years, over 60 million Americans have been killed through abortion. In China, where the myth of the population bomb led to the...

Imprecatory psalms affirm our sense that there’s real wrong with the world, that we are right to be angry about it. They speak of the psalmist’s...

As of this writing, Russian forces are said to be in control of the Kyiv airport and the infamous Chernobyl nuclear plant, and appear to be making...

There are times when divorce is necessary, but it is always tragic in the same sense as when catastrophic cures like amputation or chemotherapy are...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine could be the beginning of a great power war. Such dark tidings lead to a fear, not just for our lives but that nearly...

A church without doctrine is a mere social club or an arbitrary special interest group, but a “church” that remains doctrinally correct but only...

Antisemitism has been a scourge of the human race since the ancient world. Too often throughout history, Christians have not only turned a blind...

“What people once expected from the Almighty, they now expect from the almighty bureaucracy. That’s a bad trade for anyone, but for the Christian,...

To have a Christian worldview is to hold views that are consistent with the Bible, not to only have views that are in the Bible. The problem with...

Each year, many of the most popular Christmas Carols remind us that God did not leave us in our broken state, but came and lived among us so that...

Though violent crime per capita isn’t as bad as it was in the early 90s, at least twelve major U.S. cities broke annual homicide records this year,...