The Humanitas Forum

There is no such person as an “unbeliever.” There are no “non-religious” people. Though many may claim the contrary, though many may protest such a designation, all people everywhere as living, thinking, feeling and acting persons are persons of faith …

What time is it in our culture? The moderns say it’s a time of great human achievement.  Science and technology have ushered in an era of great progress.  And they’re right, in many ways.  Postmoderns, however, say …

Some seventy years before Michael Goheen and Craig Bartholomew wrote Living at the Crossroads:  An Introduction to Christian Worldview, the poet and culture critic T. S. Eliot could see the complexities and challenges of living in a modern …

What’s in a worldview?  We all have one.  We all live by one.  Worldviews move the world.  Yet many Christians are unaware of this useful concept and how it can help us sort through the challenges …

Is another reformation possible?  The West—Europe and North America—has for some time been aptly described as post-Christian.  Can there be a rebirth of vision and mission that will substantially impact the West with the Gospel?

Focusing more …

Privately engaging but socially irrelevant!

This is how one evangelical leader described (in 1983) the spiritual life of the evangelical and conservative wing of Christianity.  The faith of these Christians has had no significant impact on the broader …

“The Christian church has been guilty of a great abdication.”

Somehow, we’ve forgotten that art, beauty, and the imagination are important to the life of the Church—to the life of the Church as the Church and to the life of …

“In nothing has the Church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a …

American Christianity refuses to grow up.  “We’re all adolescents now!”

Beginning in the 1930s and ‘40s, a quiet revolution began in American churches.  It occurred in all segments of Christianity, but it has been most notably “successful” in the evangelical …

Even though Soul Searching was published in 2005, there is little reason to think that things have improved in the spiritual lives of American teens.  In fact, in a follow-up study, Souls in Transition:  The Religious and Spiritual Lives of …