By Miriam Y. Perkins, PhD If you went paging through the New Testament looking for one-sentence prayers to guide the Christian life, you’d find one of the most important in Mark 9:24: “I believe; help my unbelief!” (English Standard Version). A distressed father brought his mute and seizure-ridden son to Jesus saying, “If you can […]
Why Did God Create the World? And Is This the Right Question?
By Miriam Y. Perkins, PhD I recently participated in an evening event hosted by Globalscope (Christian Missionary Fellowship) in Tübingen, Germany, for university students curious but skeptical about Christianity and Christian theology. After some introductory comments about how theology can assist people on the journey of faith, we spent the rest of the evening discussing […]