The battle for a denomination's soul.

The thunderbolt of Bethlehem struggled with the need to synthesize classical learning and Christian truth. So did the brightest lights of the Renaissance and Reformation. And so do Christians today.

Gordon Aeschliman in Cairo

Howe we refer to God makes a difference.

In 1946, a man named Ernst Lohmeyer disappeared from East Germany. It took me three decades to piece together his story.

Why—biblically speaking—we should question the unity-in-diversity refrains coming out of many denominational headquarters

The power of divine calling is not in how one is called but that one is called.

Why we shouldn't call the Old Testament the 'Hebrew Scriptures.'

The church has a long history of discomfort with Christ

We may wish for a God of love without law, but we would not want what our wishes would give.

When I debate defenders of homosexuality, I am often accused of being exclusive in a way that Jesus wasn't.

The night Constantinople fell to the Ottoman armies may be the one time that the church was one.