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It’s a new golden age of children’s books filled to the brim with theology—and imagination.

The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land, edited by Gerald R. McDermott. InterVarsity Press (Downers Grove, Illinois, 2016). 352 pp., $26.

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When we look closely at how Jesus’ prayer life is depicted in Luke, we discover how essential prayer is for us.

Old-school evangelical leaders once knew the value of “care” over “cure.”

Courtesy of Robert F. Cochran Jr. I am often asked whether I would identify the United States as a “Christian nation.”  I suspect that was the underlying concern when a friend, a 95-year-old World War II veteran, asked if I thought our church should place an American flag along with the Christian flag in our sanctuary.  (He wears an American flag in his lapel; I have one on my license plate.)  I answered his question with stories from teaching law in Vietnam and Chin...

Evangelical Christianity: A Guide for the Perplexed June 29, 2021 Roger E. Olson Evangelical Christianity: A Guide for the Perplexed As a life long evangelical Christianity and alleged scholar-expert on the subject, I am concerned (to put it mildly) about the widespread confusion in culture and society, spread especially by journalists, about the subject. This blog was begun with the intent of, among other things, elucidating the true meaning of “evangelical Christianity.” That after I noti...

By Cathy Lynn Grossman | Spanish Evangelical Publishers Names Winners Expolit Renueva Tu Mente (Renew Your Mind) by Miguel Nuñez, on ways people can change their thinking and live what they believe, has been named 2021 Book of the Year by the Spanish Evangelical Publishers Association. Editorial Vida, an imprint of the Spanish publishing program of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, accepted the award at SEPA’s virtual ceremony held May 13. Chris Garrido, v-p and publisher for H...

Evangelical pastor: It’s time to get political conservative movement back on course Updated May 03, 2021; By Travis Collins Cars and pickups used to have bench seats—seats that stretched uninterrupted from the driver’s door to the passenger’s door. In those days, it was common to see a young lady sitting in the middle of the front seat as the guy drove. One day a husband and wife, married many years, were riding in a pickup truck with a bench seat. The wife, seated next to the passeng...

The Call for a Christian Mind Girlfriends in God See All Devotionals 2021 Apr 22 How the Irish Saved Civilization. “Ireland,” contended Cahill,  “had one moment of unblemished glory... as the Roman Empire fell, as all through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the Roman cities, looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish, who were just learni...