NASA Orbiter Exploded Based on Wrong Assumption

On December 11, 1998, NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter. It was a highly advanced piece of technology that cost $327 million. The data it gathered ...

The History of Snake Oil

Snake oil was a real product. It was a traditional Chinese medicine that was brought to the United States in the 1800s by thousands of Chinese migrants ...

God Is Not Out to Get You

In an issue of CT magazine Pastor Jeremy Treat writes:

My high-school basketball coach was a classic, old-school screamer who motivated with fear and shame. ...

Our Favorite Heresies

LifeWay Research and Ligonier Ministries have once again examined the theological awareness, or lack thereof, of American evangelicals. This time, instead ...

Skillful Liars Are Difficult to Detect

Nobody likes to be lied to. It is generally agreed that lying is a sin or is not socially acceptable and potentially harmful. Some people believe they ...

Harvard’s Chief Chaplain Is an Atheist

The Puritan colonists who settled in New England in the 1630s had a nagging concern about the churches they were building: How would they ensure that ...

Dashboard Jesus

For about five dollars you can buy a four-inch plastic bobblehead Jesus that bounces on a metal spring and adheres firmly to the dashboard of your car. ...

Communist Christ Casts the First Stone

A high school ethics textbook published by the Chinese government includes a revised version of John 8:3–11. In the Christian version, Jesus is ...

Forged Painting Purchased with Counterfeit Money

Two Spanish conmen attempted to sell a forged Goya painting but it backfired spectacularly after their client, supposedly a rich Arab sheik, paid them ...

Father and Sons Jailed for Fake Cure

The Department of Justice has filed charges against a father and his three sons for their role in illegally selling industrial bleach. The bleach itself ...