Author: Casey Shutt

Sure, you are reading at the moment.  But are we as a people who locate their authority in the written word (namely, God’s Word) readers? Kathleen C. Boone, in her book The Bible Tells Them So, demonstrates the centrality of the...

There’s been much ado about Tebow’s Super Bowl ad.  The ad is an exchange between Tim and his mother discussing the family’s decision not to abort Tim (for medical reasons) but to have him.  Many in the...

In Ephesians Paul speaks of evangelism as being one of the gifts for the building up of the body of Christ. Unfortunately, however, evangelists often inadvertently tear down the body of Christ. I can remember in high school...

Read Jonathan Dodson’s post here.

I have heard that congregants are more likely to recollect the preacher’s attire than the content of his sermon. It turns out this is nothing new. Christine Leigh Heyrman in her book looking at evangelical faith in the...

Jared C. Wilson, writing at the Evangel blog on the First Things website, says, “I am from Texas. I love Texas. I get Texas.”  Which I suppose makes him worth listening to on FBC Dallas’ 130 million dollar...

Tim Keller: The Gospel and the Poor: A Case for Compassion from Here’s Life Inner City on Vimeo. HT: Creation Project

Capitalism is not perfect. In his look at the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers, Christian Smith considers mass-consumer capitalism as one of the formidable cultural factors shaping teenage (and adult, for that...

We are made in the image of God. And yet our temptation is to make God in our own image. It is this temptation that is behind the prevalence of idolatry. An idol, after all, is often a god resembling the human form made by human...