Considered Opinion

Comments on a variety of subjects relating principally to writing, culture, theology and biblical interpretation, by author, editor and educator Richard C. Leonard, Ph.D.

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Unbelievers, Then and Now

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Within evangelical circles it isn’t unusual to find leaders delineating a stark contrast between “believers” and “unbelievers” — people wh...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Why Don’t People Accept Christianity?

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A discussion group I once belonged to was reading a book on how men can live the Christian life. At one point the author suggested that pe...
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Literal and Figurative Expressions in the Bible

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Should we take every expression in the Bible literally? Interpreters have always recognized that some expressions in Scripture are not inte...
Monday, December 25, 2023

What “World” Did “God So Love?”

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Perhaps the best-known passage of Scripture is John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in ...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Our Creator, the Analyst

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; an...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Did Jesus “Watch the News?”

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For many people today, the network or Internet news has become so full of negativity that it engenders disquiet and depression to the point...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Addressing the Decline in Church Participation

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Decline in church participation is an almost universal phenomenon in the Western world, as churches find it more difficult to involve you...
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