Os Guinness has said that we live in an ABC era, that is, an Anything But Christian era.  It is a perceptive point.
This ABC inclination may be especially alive in the hallowed halls of academia.
Consider this story from Timothy Larsen:
John had been a straight-A student until he enrolled in English writing. The assignment was [...]

The latter half of the twentieth century was a tumultuous one.  It was period that cast an ominous shadow of doubt over the institutions that humans have traditionally anchored themselves in.  Thanks to the Watergate scandal, the protested Vietnam War, the Monica Lewinski debacle, and Iraq and Afghanistan wars there has been a growing suspicion [...]

“Postmoderns are remarkably nonchalant about the meaninglessness which they experience in life. Reading the works of an earlier generation of writers, existentialist authors like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, one almost developed a sense of vertigo, the kind of apprehension that one gets when standing too near the edge of [...]

The world we inhabit affects us in many ways. It impacts the way we think about everything, including religion.
It has been suggested that the sacred is migrating. Under contemporary conditions, individuals have grown leery of externalities. Our world seems fragmented, tumultuous, and inhospitable. Despite all our comforts and conveniences, our souls groan. Peter Berger has [...]

Language has come on hard times.  In philosophy, many thinkers have questioned its reliability. In the media, there has been a shift in the way language is used. In just the short time since Pearl Harbor, the vocabulary used in reporting has been dumbed-down.  John McWhorter’s book, Doing Our Own Thing, documents these changes taking [...]

Are you a church looking for a pastor? Are you an individual wondering if God might be calling you to ministry?
Consider these thoughts from Kevin DeYoung.

I am currently completing a PhD in theology from Durham Univ. (England). The degree has been a challenge on a number of levels. I remember the relief of simply entering the program and going through orientation. After months of GRE tests and practice tests, hours of browsing different university websites in the US, Canada  and [...]

The professionalization of the pastorate has been taking place for some time now. David Wells has traced it back to the nineteenth century (see No Place For Truth). John Piper has written a remedy to this trend of professionalization in his book, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals.
Not mincing words, Piper states, “We pastors are being [...]