Author Archives: Bob Felton

The make-believe tale of Cassie Bernall’s “martyrdom” at Columbine has exerted a powerful grip on the imagination of Christian teenagers. After Columbine, martyrdom became a powerful fantasy for Christian teenagers [ … ] But if you were a Christian teenager … Continue reading →

What do you know? A new survey upholds exactly what I’ve said for years: The “cultural Christians” are leaving church altogether, and the loonies are increasingly concentrated in backward-looking redoubts. Of those who said they had attended a house of … Continue reading →

I pointed a few days ago to a piece by Molly Worthen that links conservative Christianity to the national disgraces of “post-truth” and Donald Trump’s presidency. Now comes a former New York Times religion editor to say the yahoos number … Continue reading →

That the publication of the “Origin of Species” marked an epoch in the development of the natural sciences is well known to the layman. That the combination of the very words origin and species embodied an intellectual revolt and introduced … Continue reading →

When depression hits, remember that God’s faithfulness is more real than the thoughts and feelings inside your head. https://t.co/B38qpFHAdf — Desiring God (@desiringGod) April 18, 2017 Top that one for irony.