Why Lent Should Matter To Everyone
Lent can be a really strange time, both for the Christian and the non-Christian. For the non-Christian, it is a time when there is all kinds of religious “stuff” going on that nobody can really...
View ArticleThe New York Times’ 3 Worst Corrections On Christian Holidays*
An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the Christian holiday of Easter. It is the celebration of Jesus’s resurrection from the dead, not his resurrection into heaven. —The New York Times,...
View ArticleWill Someone Explain Christianity To The New York Times?
Collecting egregious errors about basic Christian teachings is a hobby of mine and The New York Times gives me some of my favorite examples. Take this one of recent vintage: An earlier version of this...
View ArticleNine Easy Ways To Participate In Lent
Lent is a season in the church year for many Christians around the world across denominational lines. Lent is the forty days preceding Easter, excepting Sundays, stretching in the western Christian...
View ArticleTry Some Of The World’s Best Music For Holy Week
This week, liturgical Christians begin our final countdown to the celebration of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. The season of Lent that began with Ash Wednesday culminates in Holy Week and...
View Article12 Reasons To Celebrate Good Friday
I’m pretty sure Federalist readers aren’t all that interested in “12 Reasons to Celebrate Good Friday.” Either they’re already going to celebrate Good Friday—in which case they don’t need reasons—or...
View ArticleHow Passover Illuminates Holy Week
Easter is undoubtedly the most important holiday on the Christian calendar. What Christmas merely promises—“he shall save his people from their sins”—Easter delivers. Indeed, without the death and...
View Article‘AD: The Bible Continues’ Portrays The Early Church This Easter
Mark Burnett and Roma Downey are not afraid. Let movie studios and television channels scratch their heads, trying to figure out the elusive “faith-based” market that produces “God Is Not Dead”...
View Article4 Problems With Media Confusion Over Ted Cruz’s Quoting Of Scripture
Last night on CNN, a panel was discussing an upcoming high feast in our nation’s most practiced religion. I speak, of course, of the Iowa Caucuses and partisan politics. Kathleen Parker is a Pulitzer...
View ArticleA Guide To The Best And Worst Easter Treats Known To Man
Christmas gets all the lion’s share of the holiday glory, and I don’t mean Aslan’s. That’s fair; Christmas is a rather important season. Easter, though, is the most important Christian holiday on the...
View ArticleThe Easter Bunny’s War On Easter Is Going Too Far
Earlier this week I went to get my children Easter cards. I was in a holiday store that sells goods for Christmas, Halloween, and Easter. Its Easter card selection was cute but didn’t include anything...
View ArticleTwo Explanations for ‘The Passion’s’ Lackluster Ratings
On the evening of Palm Sunday, Fox aired “The Passion,” a semi-live Tyler-Perry-hosted-and-narrated depiction of Jesus’ journey to the cross. Unlike Mel Gibson’s cinematic take on the story, notable...
View ArticleDid The Apostle Paul Witness Christ’s Crucifixion?
Why do Christians believe Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God, instead of, for example, in the tooth fairy? Because of an historical event interpreted from a salvation-seeking perspective. That...
View ArticleOn Easter, Terrorists Bomb Christian Children In Pakistan
Yesterday, as America’s Christians went to church and sat down with family and friends to celebrate Christ’s defeat of death, tragedy struck our community in Pakistan. Islamic terrorists detonated a...
View ArticleTry These 8 Simple Holy Week Observances To Prepare Your Soul For Easter
Bunnies and baskets began gracing supermarket shelves weeks ago. Every third commercial on television is for Cadbury eggs, people on Facebook are wishing you a happy Easter, and signs of spring abound....
View ArticleI Ate Peeps Oreos So You Don’t Have To
Oreos are far and away the best mass-produced cookie. The chocolate cookie with a creamy center is perfect to break apart into pieces or dip whole into milk. The one odd thing about Oreos is all the...
View ArticleHow Losing Grandma’s House This Easter Reminds Us Of The Resurrection
In the 15 years since I became a mother, Easter has meant several things: special church services, new spring dresses, dye-stained eggs, dye-stained fingers, Easter candy. Most memorably, it has also...
View ArticleMatthew’s Gospel Offers An Amazing Case For Christ’s Resurrection
Lent is over, which means we’ve made it through yet another blitz of “Did Jesus Really Exist?”articles. There is perhaps no more predictable Internet cycle than this torrent of thinkpieces, which...
View Article5 Reasons You Should Go Back To Church Again If You Visited This Easter
Did you go to church on Easter? If so, do you intend to go back this coming Sunday? If you answered yes to the first question but no to the second, you are not alone. A 2015 survey by the National...
View ArticleTo Practice Intentionality And Reflection, You Can’t Beat Lent
Most people think of two times they ought to make an effort to alter their absenteeism from church — Christmas and Easter. But there’s another. If you’ve slipped away from regular church attendance, or...
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