Daniel Silliman

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Daniel Silliman

The creed set the standard for orthodoxy for 1,700 years. But no one professes the faith today in the ancient Turkish town where it was written. All the Christians will be tourists. This year people will flock to the ancient city of Nicaea in Turkey to celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the church council and creed that set the standard for orthodoxy. One Christian group has planned a trip with professors from Beeson Divinity School, Bethel University, and Hillsdale College.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Daniel Silliman

Julia Sebutinde became the first African woman to preside over the United Nations International Court of Justice in The Hague. She previously served on the Supreme Court in Uganda and as a judge on the international tribunal that found Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone. Sebutinde credits a Pentecostal church founded by a Canadian minister in Uganda with her formation.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Daniel Silliman

More and more churches are turning to ancient words of faith to anchor modern worship. One thousand seventeen hundred years ago, a Roman emperor ordered Christians to work out their differences and put an end to a theological controversy about the nature of Christ that was roiling churches in the Middle East.

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Daniel Silliman

Apologizing for what I got wrong reporting on an idiosyncratic view on how Jesus died. iStock / Getty Images PlusLike so many Christians, I spent a lot of time before Easter thinking about the Crucifixion: how it must have felt for Jesus to die that way, how God chose this particular device of Roman terror to accomplish our salvation, and how it worked practically to kill someone on a cross. An article in Biblical Archaeology Review piqued my reporting curiosity.

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Daniel Silliman

Why one evangelical Bible scholar thinks the answer might be no. The Bible doesn't say Jesus was nailed to a cross. Telling the story of Christ's death, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John simply say that Roman soldiers crucified him. They don't say how. Each of the Gospels include specific detail about the soldiers' method of dividing Jesus' clothes-a lottery-but none describe how, exactly, the soldiers put him on the cross. There are no nails mentioned in any of the four accounts. Jeffrey P.