It was Richelieu's genius to transfer to politics the Counter-Reformation's tools -- dramatic, immediate and often breathtaking images emphasizing the mystery, the compelling irrationality, of faith.
"This is a president who gave really compelling speeches about faith and values, memorable stuff," said the Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University who has advised Mr. Obama on religious matters.
People in the pew are increasingly choosing congregations that offer multiple worship services and an array of small groups and other programming that make faith compelling in their lives.
And if Twain and Chesterton were writers who marshaled wit and paradox in commending wisdom, Guinness richly mines many a classic vein of wisdom, and wit, to help Christians in our time discern what it means to be winsome, and compelling, in commending faith.
is a particularly compelling example of good faith.
A compelling meditation on personal faith, Silence at times breaks through into masterpiece territory; Rodrigo Prieto's painterly cinematography turns some chiaroscuro frames into pure Caravaggio.
BANGKOK -- Vietnam has intensified repression of indigenous minority Christians in the country's Central Highlands, forcing the closure of small informal churches, compelling public renunciations of faith and arresting worshipers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.
BANGKOK — Vietnam has increased repression of indigenous minority Christians in the country's Central Highlands, closing small informal churches, compelling public renunciations of faith and arresting worshipers, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.
Others have made compelling arguments from the faith and stewardship perspective.
My crisis of doubt found an answer in a compelling vision of Christian faith, and I can attribute a fair measure of this to Lewis.
