A letter to the editor published the week before last on obeying God’s law over man’s law pretty much checked off the usual list of evangelical Christian talking points. “Through the miraculous birth, ...

The prophet Isaiah said it so beautifully, hundreds of years before Jesus’ death: “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity ...

Perhaps our most famous Christian account of redemption is commonly known as substitutionary atonement. It runs something like this: in the beginning, God created the earth, and it was good—but then ...

Looking back to history to find yet another approach to atonement will not solve the problem, but a reconsideration of the physical or mystical theory of how Christ saves us might contribute to more ...

In a new book, "Defending the Faith, Engaging the Culture: Essays Honoring L. Russ Bush," Patterson contributes an essay honoring Bush, who when he died in 2008 was a professor at Southeastern Baptist ...