Digital Lectors for a Postliterate Age
Postliterate people still need God’s Word, and online Bible ventures have found eager listeners.
Suppose you agree that ours is an increasingly postliterate age. The average person, including the average Christian, is reading less, and Christians o…
Biblical Literacy in a Postliterate Age
We must always be people of the Word, but we’ll have to reimagine deep engagement with Scripture.
Christians are readers. We are “people of the book.” We own personal Bibles, translated into our mother tongues, and read them daily. Pict…
How (Not) to Talk About ‘Christian Nationalism’
The phrase is increasingly useless—unfairly applied to ordinary Christians yet too weak to sufficiently condemn “another gospel” in our midst.
Some years ago, the Reformed philosopher Alvin Plantinga gave a useful definition of fundamentalist…
Doubt Is a Ladder, Not a Home
Churches should welcome questions. That doesn’t require embracing perpetual doubt.
What makes Christianity hard?
There are many possible answers to this question. How you answer it reveals a great deal not only about yourself—your temperamen…
My Students Are Reading John Mark Comer, and Now I Know Why
The popular pastor’s latest works inhabit a fruitful tension between inheriting church tradition and rebuilding it for today’s world.
I’ll begin with a confession: I was once very skeptical of John Mark Comer.
From afar, he seemed like one m…
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