The Prosperity Gospel: Where Faith in Self Joins Hope in Health & Love of Wealth
ARTICLE • What is the “Prosperity Gospel,” how did it rise to prominence within modern Christianity, why does it captivate millions of believers around the world, and how does a Christ-centered, biblically rooted vision for the Christian life offer something truer and richer than worldly wealth or success?
Read time: 9 min
Worried of Lack in the Presence of the Provider?
DEVOTION • “Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. . . . Jesus, aware of this, said to them, ‘Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?’” (Mark 8:14, 17)
Read time: 2 min
Taylor’s Protestant Problem: How to Live Coram Deo without Burning Out
ARTICLE • Charles Taylor blamed the Protestant Reformation for the rise of secularism. He alleged that the high spiritual bar set for the average believer in Protestantism has led many to give up on the faith. Does this charge have any merit? How can believers integrate their faith in all of life without caving under the pressure of living as Scripture requires?
Read time: 10 min
Faith & Scholarship: A Personal Statement
PAPER • The Christian faith enhances scholarship by nurturing virtue, intensifying truth-seeking rigor, and imbuing scholarly work with transcendent beauty, aligning it with the classical ideals of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
Read time: 3 min
The Best Things in Life: A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth and the Good Life
Book Review • Kreeft, Peter. The Best Things in Life: A Contemporary Socrates Looks at Power, Pleasure, Truth and the Good Life. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1984. $13.10.
Read time: 11 min