Writing
I am available to write articles, editorials, columns, op-eds (in my own name or another), scripts, books (in my own name or another), and other materials by agreement.
A partial listing of my writing:
Publishing
Author:
All That Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, November 2010).
Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century
(Carlisle, England: Paternoster Publishing, 2000, 2005). Has sold 10,000 copies in two editions. Translated into Portuguese. Standard missions text in colleges across the country.
Co-author:
The Sacrament of Evangelism, with Jerry Root (Chicago: Moody Publishers, April 2011).
Writer:
Uncovered: New Research on What America’s Sexual Culture Does to Young Women, with author Joe McIlhaney (Chicago: Northfield Publishing, 2011).
Experience God as Your Provider, with author Brian Kluth (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2010).
Nurturing the Nations: Reclaiming the Dignity of Women in Building Healthy Cultures, with author Darrow Miller (Carlisle, England: Paternoster Publishing, 2008).
Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth to Transform Cultures , with author Darrow Miller (Seattle, Wash.: Youth With A Mission Publishing, 1998). Translated into a dozen languages.
Contributor:
Goodbye, Billie Jean: The Meaning of Michael Jackson (Lorette C. Luzajic, 2009).
Islam (Christianity Today Study Series; Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008).
The Making of a Mentor: Nine Essential Characteristics of Influential Christian Leaders (World Vision, 2005).
Echoes from Calvary: Meditations from Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004).
Peoples on the Move: Introducing the Nomads of the World (Carlisle, England: Piquant, 2001).
Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 2000).
Why Am I on This Earth? (Winnipeg, Manitoba: Fleet Publications, 2000).
Journalism
Christianity Today:
“Foolish Things” column (2006-2008): “All Monotheisms Are Not Alike,” “Missionary Myths,” “Ancient Parable, Urgent Time,” “We’re Not Finished,” “Why Evangelize the Jews?,” “A Hole in Our Holism,” “Answering the Atheists,” “When Red Is Blue,” “Stumbling After Jesus,” “Don’t Cede the High Ground,” “Living with the Darwin Fish,” “The Scandal of Forgiveness,” “Worth Protecting,” “Sit Down, Sit Down for Jesus?”
Print editorials (selected): “Looking for Moral Capitalism,” “Terror in Orissa,” “Missions Isn’t Safe,” “A Question of Faith,” “The Longest Hatred,” “Clean Air for Ears,” “Never Again?,” “For Whom Would Jesus Vote?,” “Nightmares and Miracles,” “Spiritual Shortcuts,” “Sighs of Relief,” “Prescription for Conflict,” “Fear Not the Disabled,” “Dazed by Disasters,” “The Lessons of Jabez,” “Religious Freedom Isn’t Free,” “Sex Isn’t a Spectator Sport,” “Look at All the Lonely People,” “Faith Perfected,” “One-Size Politics Doesn’t Fit All,” “Abortion Overreach,” “The Slope Really Is Slippery,” “ ‘Safe Sex’ for the Whole Nation.”
Online commentaries, editorials, and reviews (selected): “China’s Human Rights, in the Red,” “Election Day Pride,” “Christian Evangelism and Judaism,” “Bill Cosby Was (Mostly) Right,” “Life with Dignity,” “Unholy Wars,” “More Culture of Life, Please,” “Aliens in Our Midst,” “When the Giver of Eternal Life Thirsts,” “Frist’s Folly,” “Beyond the Gates of Splendor,” “A Passion for Souls,” “The New (Evangelical) Mainline,” “Whose Submission?,” “Thinking about Heaven on Earth Day.”
BreakPoint.org:
Monthly “Priorities” columnist: “The Spiritual Uses of Unemployment,” “A Modest Proposal: Truth, Grace, and Carrie Prejean,” “What ‘Abortion Reduction’ Really Means,” “A Godless Eden,” “Messin’ with Reality,” “Hopes and Fears,” “A Call for Moral Rearmament,” “The Devil and Pat Robertson,” “Saving Prisoners, and Ourselves,” “The Problem with Self-Esteem,” “What to Do about Iran,” “The Cure for Wanderlust,” “Wishful Thinking,” “Strange Tolerance: Why the Ground Zero Mosque Is a Bad Idea.”
Crosswalk.com:
“Fighting Porn: The Newest Battlefront on the Oldest Profession,” “No Truces on Abortion,” “Discomfort with Dad Signifies a Deeper Problem,” “For the Greater Good?”
Other articles
“Stemming the Embryonic Tide,” “America becoming fertile mission field for Buddhism,” “Doors into Islam,” “Counteroffensive on RU-486,” “Double Jeopardy,” Willard’s Knowing Christ Today , “The Changing Face of Apologetics,” “Q&A: Tony Dungy,” “Islam’s Uncertain Future,” “Waging Peace on Islam,” “What Married Women Want,” “Q&A: James Dobson,” “Sen. Rick Santorum: I Draw No Line Between My Faith and My Decisions,” “Q&A: Newt Gingrich,” Q&A with Dinesh D’Souza (Part 1),” “Q&A with Dinesh D’Souza (Part 2),” “Q&A: Hugh Hewitt,” Q&A: Gary Bauer on the Miers Nomination,” “Author Insight: Os Guinness on Evil (Part 1),” “Author Insight: Os Guinness on Evil (Part 2),” “Q&A: David Limbaugh on Faith and Politics (Part 1),” “Q&A: David Limbaugh on Faith and Politics (Part 2),” “Dick Staub on the Star Wars Myth,” “The Evangelical Scandal,” “Is Islam a Religion of Peace?,” “Is Christianity a Religion of Peace?,” “Gatecrashing for Jesus,” “The Other Side of Church Growth,” “Q & A: Rich Cizik,” “Crunchy Time,” “A False Cry of Peace,” “A Revival of Prayer,” “Amazing Newton,” “Beyond the Gates of Splendor,” “The Faith of Our Founders,” “Grace as a License for Sin,” “When the Mountains Don’t Move,” “Fact and Faith,” “Relentless Pursuit,” “Defining Business Success,” “Colson Blasts ‘Deep Throat,’” “Entertaining Truth,” “Singable Doctrine,” “Sen. Rick Santorum: I Draw No Line Between My Faith and My Decisions,” “What’s Next: Missions,” “Hope Amid the Ruins,” “North Korea Human Rights Act a ‘Miracle,’” “Evangelicals in a Secular Society,” “RU-486: After two die, Danco Labs warns doctors about dangers,” “The World’s Prayer Guide.”
Bible Studies
For personal use only. To study with your group, please go to ChristianBibleStudies.com.
The Myth of the Perfect Parent
The Problem with the Prosperity Gospel
Awards
The following articles have been honored in Evangelical Press Association’s Higher Goals in Christian Journalism competitions:
- “The New (Evangelical) Mainline” (Christianity Today online, May 2009).
- “Missions Isn’t Safe” (Christianity Today, December 2007).
- “Missions: Impossible?” (Moody, November/December 1999).
- “Learning to Care” (Moody, October 1994).
Answering the Atheists
(an unauthorized video based on one of my columns)
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