While the debate over whether the United States of America was founded as a Christian nation has good arguments on both sides, the fact that many original settlers came to America to escape a tyrannical state’s intrusion into their religious life and practice is unquestionable. Religious liberty has such a rich heritage in America —...

Evangelicals have been facing a moment of truth concerning abuse and misconduct in our own ranks. Recently, attention has been focused on Southwestern Seminary and its president. The controversy centers on past remarks about pastoral counsel to an abuse victim and about the objectification of a teenage girl. As Albert Mohler declared earlier today, it really does...

David French has a must-read article over at National Review about a troubling development coming out of the California General Assembly. In short—and this is not alarmist langue, it is actually what is being proposed—California is a few votes away from banning Christian orthodoxy from book stores, and possibly even from conferences and events. Here’s...

In his first letter to Timothy, Paul writes with a concern that surfaces right from the start of the letter and continues to the end: the preservation of sound doctrine. Paul’s instruction to Timothy concerning sound doctrine is incisive and pervasive: Refute those who teach unsound doctrine (1 Tim 1:3; 5:17; 6:3–5), raise up leaders...

You’ve heard the argument before. Every youth pastor in America has probably encountered it in one form or another, perhaps in the teen who quips, “But the Bible doesn’t say anything about not smoking marijuana!” And strictly speaking, the teen is right. Pick up a concordance and you’d be hard pressed to locate an entry...

Mark Hemingway has a fascinating profile of Russell Moore over at The Weekly Standard. The piece focuses on the fallout among evangelicals from the 2016 election, but he includes a small bit about The Nashville Statement at the beginning. Hemingway writes: The Nashville Statement is, in some respects, a model for civic engagement by churches...