Elsewhere, 18 January.

• The boy who died and went to heaven in The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, didn’t. NPR reports he’s recanted, and the publisher is taking the book out of print. (I myself remain skeptical of such stories.)
• Pope Francis recently pointed out how wrong it is to mock other religions. Roger E. Olson went into greater detail.
• Tim Stewart at the Dictionary of Christianese tells us where televangelism came from.
• Karl Vaters at New Small Church on why churches need to update our methods.