The Humanitas Forum

Should we fit in?  Should we hunker down? Should we retreat?  Should we engage?  How should Christians respond to the challenges of living in a post-Christian culture?  The answers to these questions will be decisive as Christians seek to live …

‘Awesome’ is probably the most overused—and most abused—word in the English language.  The awesome tag gets attached to anything and everything: to a Grunge band, to a worship band; to cheese cake, to Jennifer Lawrence; to a friend’s new tattoo, …

Christ and culture!  What is the place of Jesus Christ and his followers in this world?  This is the “enduring problem” that H. Richard Niebuhr discusses in his, now classic, Christ and Culture (1951).  Niebuhr’s important and much debated volume …

The times require distinct and decided views of Christian doctrine. I cannot withhold my conviction that the professing Church is as much damaged by laxity and indistinctness about matters of doctrine within, as it is by skeptics and unbelievers without. …

Should we fit in?  Should we hunker down? Should we retreat?  Should we engage?  How should Christians respond to the challenges of living in a post-Christian culture?  The answers to these questions will be decisive as Christians seek to live …

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 “the idol of …

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 secular …

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 of living in a …

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 specifically on the …