Investigating Christianity
As a detective, I’ve learned to carefully examine the words of suspects (I’ve written an entire chapter about this in Cold Case Christianity). Killers...
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The Thin Blue Life
- Articles
When an Ambush Comes Out of Nowhere: What the D.C. Park Police Shooting Should Teach Us
Why Smart Cops Don’t Buy “Blind Faith”
More Than the Penal Code: Why Cops Are Called to Save Lives
Necessary Danger: Why Protecting Cops Protects Every Other Profession
When Applause Fades: Why Humble Cops Still Run Toward Danger
- Videos
Why America Still Needs Cops: A Christian Detective’s Case for Law Enforcement (Video)
Why Police Officers Need to Understand the Connection Between Trauma and Identity (Video)
Can a Detective Really Make a Case for Jesus? (Video)
How A Detective Might Make the Case for God (Video)
Crime Fighters: Why Would A Good God Allow Moral Evil? (Video)
- Podcasts
Cops, Christians, and a Culture on Edge (Podcast)
Cops Know the Difference Between Evidence and Proof (Podcast)
How a Murder and a Few Google Employees Demonstrated the Existence of God (Podcast)
What Should Christians Think About The State Of Law Enforcement In America? (Podcast)
How to Find Peace in the Chaos of Law Enforcement (Podcast)
Nature of Law Enforcement
On a Monday evening in Southeast Washington, D.C., a U.S. Park Police officer was shot while simply driving an unmarked vehicle as part of...
Investigating Christianity
Faith isn’t supposed to be blind, and as cops, we already live that reflects the evidential perspective of the Christian worldview. Like the earliest...
Nature of Law Enforcement
A recent story of a rescue in Kenosha, Wisconsin is an important reminder that our role as police officers is far more than simply...
Engaging Culture
Law enforcement has always been a dangerous profession, but recent announcements like Fort Worth Police Department’s decision to expand bullet‑resistant glass on patrol vehicles remind us...
Working as a Believer
And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through...
Working as a Believer
On an almost daily basis, I share Jesus’ first recorded words of His earthly ministry: “…repent and believe…”. With the understanding that these two...
Working as a Believer
As I get older, I’ve rediscovered the ancient truth uttered through King Solomon: “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a...
Investigating Christianity
Anais Nin, the avant-garde author and diarist, once said, “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....
Character Development
“The master was full of praise. ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant…Let’s celebrate together!'” (Matthew 25:21) As police officers, awards and commendations are...
Working as a Believer
“…and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord’s, and he...
Working as a Believer
Sometimes it feels like we, as police officers serving in the twenty-first century, are surrounded by a culture that seems to reject much of...
Working as a Believer
“Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is...
Working as a Believer
In the past, I’ve offered a definition of Biblical “faith” that is more akin to “trusting the best inference from the evidence” than “believing...
Nature of Law Enforcement
Nature of Law Enforcement
Working as a Believer
Working as a Believer
Working as a Believer
Working as a Believer
Working as a Believer
