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How the civil-rights hero honed his preaching skills and prophetic vision at a Northern liberal seminary. In this age of the blockbuster superhero movie, audiences have come to expect the hero’s origin story. Why does he wear that cape? Where did she learn to fight like that? Why do they hide behind those secret identities?Continue reading “The Origin Story of Martin Luther King Jr.”

A timely book as leaders are stepping away from their roles due to moral failure or accusations of moral failure. Ed: You recently wrote a book about people ruining their lives, and you called it an implosion. Why did you use that term? Eric: Demolition experts can take a building down two ways: they canContinue reading “One-on-One with Eric Geiger: Why Are Leaders Ruining Their Lives?”

Data about how Muslims come to Christ should affect our thinking on immigration. Naima* came to the United States from the Middle East with her family in the early 1990s. Though she was too young to remember most of the details, she distinctly remembers people from a local church welcoming her family of eight andContinue reading “God’s Divine Plan for Muslim Immigrants”

What the incarnation affirms about the reality of God’s creation. I tend to sympathize with the Gnostics most in the morning. It’s currently common to deride these early heretics for despising our physicality and rejecting the goodness of creation. But when I wake up and tenderly place my feet on the ground, breathing slowly asContinue reading “Is the Body That ‘Betrayed’ Me Still ‘Very Good’?”

How to speak truth and trust God to change hearts and minds. In every time period and historical context during which it has been shared, the gospel has confronted culture in one way or another. During the years of Christ’s ministry, it challenged the mistreatment of the poor. During the Reformation, it drove Martin LutherContinue reading “A Culture Worth Engaging In…How to Share Your Faith Critically and Contextually Today”

Billy Graham’s regrets, in his own words. For all of Billy Graham's remarkable accomplishments, he made his share of mistakes. These mistakes might have harmed his ministry if not for Graham's willingness to confess them and learn from them. “I've had to admit errors in judgment, and I've found Christian people more than generous inContinue reading “What I Would Have Done Differently”

Although Lewis was not always comfortable in the role of an evangelist, he was true to this task and regarded it as a necessary one. C. S. Lewis denied he was a theologian but he did declare “I am a rhetor.”[1] Since all rhetoric is persuasive—whether it be a request for someone to pass theContinue reading “C.S. Lewis, Evangelism, and Cultural Engagement”

Here is Jesus’ promise: Come harvest time, the vine and the branches will both share in fullness of joy. I have never interviewed a cow. In fact, thank God, I did not grow up anywhere near a farm. But if I was to guess as to the most joyful moment for any milking cow… IContinue reading “God’s Joy, Our Joy: How Sharing Our Faith Changes Everything”

Finding simple ways to follow Jesus alongside other Christians. Ed: Why a book on Church in Life? Michael: We hear much today about disciples making disciples and about Christians living out their faith in everyday life. But gather-and-scatter church makes this difficult. We gather for worship and scatter as individuals for the rest of theContinue reading “One-on-One with Michael Moynagh on “Church in Life””

Billy Graham drew people together his whole life. In a segregated South, he wrestled with what that should mean. Among Billy Graham's greatest contributions to evangelicalism was the way he defused prejudice to bring people together. Perhaps more than any other high-profile American figure in the 20th century, Graham challenged Christians to look beyond worldlyContinue reading “Level Ground at the Cross”