Christians should not be offended by Anne Rice's rejection of Christianity. We should instead use it as an opportunity to search our own lives to see how we have been vicious, cruel, mean, unloving, and difficult to others, and repent of our own sin without fixating on what we think are her sins.

Cecil B. Demille, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have all made movies about the life of Christ. Now Bollywood is getting in on the act. The as-yet untitled biopic--claimed by studio Aditya Productions as a first for the Indian film industry--is expected to start filming soon.

Is President Obama a Christian? Is Glenn Beck? That's the question that has been swirling in the media this week. The answer may lie in how "Christian" is defined and whether the Mormon church, to which Beck belongs, considers Protestants to be Christians.

Jonathan Acuff explores how the American church has accidentally made sex more confusing.

No amount of Bible reading, sermons masquerading as prayers and Christian hymns can cover up Beck's civil religion that slides back and forth between the Bible and nationalism, between authentic faith and patriotic religion. What is important to Beck is belief in God - God generically - not a specific understanding of God revealed in the biblical witness, but God who appears in nature and from which one draws universal truths.

Justin Taylor, Collin Hansen, Kevin DeYoung, and I recently discussed the importance and practice of writing well. Why should Christians write well? What does good writing look like? How do you improve, and how do you find the time?

The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, "The Grand Design," he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something," Hawking asserts.

"Big tent" is a prophetic challenge to the rancorous debates and condemnations that are the public face of religion today. The Religious Left and the Religious Right look more and more like Washington: people sit on one side of the aisle or the other; everything they say and do seems to play just to their own party members. More and more of those in the younger generations are tired of the combative attitude. They look for something different, something more positive, from Christian faith.

From a music lover's perspective, the most interesting announcement to arrive during this morning's fall Apple presentation was the unveiling of Ping, a social network that's part of the dominant iTunes application. Apple CEO Steve Jobs called it "Facebook and Twitter meets iTunes ... but it's not Facebook, it's not Twitter. It's a social network all about music."

Looking back, it’s very clear to me that the teachers and leaders I most respected and learned from were not the ones who were trying to be “cool,” but rather the ones who were honest about who they were and willing to learn about who I was.