In a globalized world “no country is an island,” to paraphrase John Donne.  A colorful map produced by the U.S. government agency NOAA shows that energy waves from the earthquake that devastated parts of Japan on March 11, 2011 reached all the way across the Pacific Ocean to the shores of South and North America.  Soon year-old debris will be washing up on the beaches of California. On March 5 Janet and I leave for Japan, where I will speak ...

Phone calls, advertisements, and visits from candidates have heated up in my state, Colorado, and I’m sure we’ll get a steady barrage from now until November. Here are some further thoughts about Christians engaging the broader culture through politics. 3) Christians should fight their battles shrewdly.  Evangelicals do not exactly have the best track record.  On one occasion an engineer working for the Christian Broadcasting Network used satellite-transmission equipment to interrupt the Playboy Channel during its broadcast of American Ecstasy ...