DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, PH.D.

Essay written in about 1978 for a college course at the University of Oregon (Eugene). Unedited from that time. It was the disturbing...

At some point in a life deeply lived, one cannot go back. The tracks are laid and now set in concrete that cannot be broken or laid once...

Nominal means “in name only.” Some politicians, rightly or wrongly, are called RINOs: Republicans in name only. That is, they are not...

For when I preach the gospel, I cannot boast, since I am compelled to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! —Apostle Paul, 1...

This is a live recording of author and philosopher Dr. Douglas Groothuis given at the Evangelical Theological Society in Portland, Oregon...

This is excerpted from Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay(InterVarsity Press, 2000). First, television emphasizes the moving image over...

Jesus, who was never indifferent to sin, who died for our sins, taught that at the end of history indifference to “the least of these”...

Some events solidify your understanding of who God made you to be. They crystallize a sense of mission and personal meaning. When the...

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. -Psalm 115:16, KJV As one year turns into another, much is made of those we...

“I should read. But I don’t have time.” I heard this while browsing a bookstore (as I often do on Sunday afternoons). His expression was...

Our Father in heaven, I come as your child. May your name (all that you are) be hallowed—deemed holy by me and by all your creatures....

I found my home in Evangelical Anglicanism in early 2007. My denomination is the Anglican Church in North America (ACNC). I visited...

Leaving the Curmudgeon Behind “The Constructive Curmudgeon” was the name of a blog I had for a number of years, starting in 2005. (It is...

The Bible’s teaching on providence is that an infinite-personal and triune being governs the cosmos. This being, God, is never outwitted...

Nothing screams, “This world is fallen,”louder than death. We were not created to die, but to live with God and each other in natural...

“How do you fit those two things together?” I paused before answering. I do this more as I age. She and I, along with another bright...

On Billy Graham Gordon MacDonald, friend and Chancellor of Denver Seminary, mentioned to me that it is likely that few students at my...

It does not matter how good your apologetics arguments are if no one listens to you. The Apostle Peter says to have an apologetic for...

My mother was a champion letter and card writer. She never missed a birthday, anniversary, or holiday. She wrote me frequently and at...

The eternal God, who forgets nothing, calls us with binding address to remember. “Do this in remembrance of me.” I need symbols to focus...