Posts by Daniel Darling
When you stop saying “Thank You”
Many years ago, a writing mentor counseled me with words I’ll never forget: “Dan, no matter how far you get in your career, always say ‘Thank you’ every time someone offers you an opportunity to write.” I’ve never forgotten that advice. Maybe its because my mother taught me–no she actually insisted (you know how mothers…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 49 – Light Magazine
What does it mean to have a whole life/prolife ethic? I invited two of my colleagues, Lindsay Swartz and Jason Thacker, to discuss this, the theme of the December Issue of Light Magazine. Show Notes: Subscribe: erlc.com/light Register for Evangelicals for Life and use coupon code WAYHOME.
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 48 featuring Andrew Gant
What are the stories behind some of our favorite Christmas carols? Today on the podcast I’m joined by Andrew Gant, composer, choirmaster, church musician, university teacher and writer. Andrew has directed many leading choires, including the Guards Chapel, Selwyn College Cambridge and Worcester College Oxford. He currently teaches music at St. Peter’s College in Oxford. We…
Read MoreChristian Rhetoric During a National Crisis
Last week another horrific mass shooting—this one a terrorist event—happened in California. This followed a shooting at Planned Parenthood in Colorado, which followed a horrific, ISIS-led mass attack in Paris. We’re living in a dangerous world. Terror and all kinds of evil seem to happen every day in communities that seem impervious to this. We…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 47 featuring David Altrogge
Today on the podcast we have David Altrogge on to discuss his important new movie: 3801 Lancaster. A few years ago, the nation was exposed to the horrors of Kermit Gosnell’s abortion mill in Pennsylvania. This movie chronicles the life and and trial of somone who was once called “The good doctor.” Altrogge talks to…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 46 featuring Bob Welch
Today I am joined by Bob Welch. Bob is an award winning author, columnist, speaker, and professor of journalism at the University of Oregon. Bob is the author of seventeen books including the recently released 52 Little Lessons from A Christmas Carol that explores lessons and stories from Charles Dickens’ beloved novel A Christmas Carol. Although a century and a half…
Read MoreJoining Green Hill Church
One of the reasons I love my job here at ERLC is that our mission to equip the church to think through moral and ethical issues. I love the church, having grown up hearing the gospel preached, learning the hymns, and worshiping Christ every Sunday. I loved pastoring. I believe, with all my heart, that…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 45 featuring Scott James
Today I am joined by my friend Scott James. Scott serves as an elder at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala. Scott is a full-time pediatric physician as well as an author. His most recent book The Expected One is a timely devotional that focuses on the Advent season. Every Christmas, Christians all over the…
Read MoreGood Reading on Syrian Refugees
The plight of Syrian refugees, particularly their possible resettlement in the United States, has come under increased scrutiny in the days since the Paris terrorists attacks. The conversation online (much of it ugly) has centered around the tension of two American ideals: maintaining national security and welcoming those who are fleeing terror. I’ve done quite…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 44 featuring Nathan Finn
When did the Baptist movement begin? How did early Baptists pioneer religious liberty and influence America’s founders? Today I discuss this with historian and thinker, Nathan Finn. Dr. Finn is the Dean of the School of Theology and Missions and Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He’s the co-author of The…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 43 featuring Josh Reich
How can leaders create healthy margin and have good work rhythms? To answer this and more questions, I talked to my friend Josh Reich. Josh is the lead pastor of Revolution Church in Tucson, Arizona and also the area lead for Acts 29 churches in Arizona. His first book Breathing Room: Stressing Less & Living More,…
Read MoreThe Way Home: Episode 42 Featuring Jason Duesing
Why should Christians study church history? I asked this, and other questions, of my friend Dr. Jason Duesing on this week’s Way Home podcast. Jason serves as the academic Provost and Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is an author whose contributions have appeared in Baptist Press and The Gospel Coalition. Jason also…
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