Some Christians are functional deists: they believe in God but their God has very little to do with this world. He’s the clockmaker God; made this place and then let it run. On the other hand, some Christians are theological determinists: they believe everything that happens is the result of God’s plans and God’s designs…

Adam Hamilton asks if there will be Hindus in heaven in the 12th chp of his book, Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Thoughts on Religion, Morality, and Politics. He opens this chapter with a widely-known (at the time) statement by arch-evangelical John Stott who said he’d never been able to conjure…

This is the second part of the letter we received the other day. Again, I’m keen on hearing how you would respond to this seeker. Bottom line I would like an absolute truth.  A Fact.  It seems reasonable to me to believe in something that is true and real.  However, it seems that christianity, much like…

Here is a letter sent to me about a woman struggling with faith, and one of her major questions is a deep, dread-type question: The shocking injustices some experience. Gary Haugen spoke at the service at Willow on the International Justice Mission.  He discussed the sex trafficking, as well as many other injustices going on…

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