Sticking it to the (Shirtless) Man

I have to confess feelings of inadequacy whenever I pass by the shirtless guy standing at the entrance to Abercrombie & Fitch. Sure, I’ve preached that “the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the...

Why the Bible Seems so Wacky

This week, Slate features an ongoing dialogue between A.J. Jacobs, who spent a year trying to follow every command in the Bible and then wrote about it in his book The Year of Living Biblically, and evangelical journalist Matt Labash. When I first heard about the...

A 90-Second History of Religion

Focusing on the geographical spread of the major world religions, this flash map sends you through 5,000 years of history in 90 seconds. It’s a very useful visualization, but of course it doesn’t give much of an idea of what God might have been doing...