DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, PH.D.

Those enamored of New Age spirituality usually find in Jesus a kindred spirit. Rather than exiling Jesus to the legendary lore of...

My Audible.com subscription offers free audio for “finding bliss” every day. Out of curiosity—and not in hope of edification—I began to...

“I believe that abortion rights are human rights. I believe that they are also economic rights. And protecting the right of a woman to be...

I became an egalitarian through a long study of the issue in the early 1990s. My first wife, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis (1954-2018), led...

Amazing as it may seem to many of us now, human beings wrote letters to each other before the arrival of electronic mail. My mother did....

The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. Recorded from the early 17th century, the word...

The following was recorded as part of Millington Baptist Church’s live Underground Sessions event on October 5, 2019. The topic of the...

Woodstock happened a half century ago this month. I mean the rock concert, which was actually not held in Woodstock, but no matter....

As we enter another season of political machinations, shouting matches, and incendiary idiocy, consider some meaningless phases that are...

Church leaders can become discouraged, or even desperate, when they hear repeatedly that “the church is in decline” or “we are losing the...

I wrote this essay for a dictionary a few years ago. Despite all the changes in the Internet world, I think it is still pertinent. We...

Let all things be done unto edifying. –1 Corinthians 14:26, KJV Each medium shapes the content it conveys. Or, more memorably, if...

Originally posted on 7/13/2015 What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve its mystery? Why should...

Public radio has a program called Radio Lab. Today, they took up artificial intelligence. But the form of the program is odd,...

As I prowl around bookstores, I find a gaggle of books on managing technology overload. One after another fall of the presses and make...

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor” is a recent film about Fred “Mr.” Rogers. Mr. Roger’s hosted a long-running children’s program called “Mr....

While hanging out with some students from Denver Seminary, I recounted some of the funniest and oddest experiences in my many years of...

God’s not Dead, 2 (2016) A teacher is accused of proselytizing in the classroom simply because she answered a student’s question about...

Christian leaders need to direct and inspire through their knowledge and character. I here assume you are not reading romance novels or...

Spiritual formation, becoming more like Jesus Christ in thought and deed, requires a renewed mind (Romans 12:2) that avoids worldliness...