How to deal with political disagreements (pt. 1)
Never-Trumpers and Democrats view anyone who would consider voting for Trump as morally compromised, while hardcore Trump supporters see their opponents as hypocritical totalitarians in the making.
John Stonestreet and Glenn Sunshine
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Is Critical Theory compatible with Christianity?
If you haven’t heard the terms “intersectionality” and “critical theory,” your children likely have, at least if they ...
The Christian worldview and the state of the world
Christianity is based on a metaphysics that recognizes that the visible and invisible worlds interpenetrate and influence each other. Thus, Scripture talks about angels and demons acting in the visible world.
The non-essential church?
Crises reveal much about us as individuals: our courage, our faith, our resiliency.
We can only 'imagine' a utopia
If the history of the 20th Century teaches us anything, it’s that this-world-only political utopianisms always lead to catastrophe, in which individuals are sacrificed on the altars of the collective good
Coronavirus, God, and a world out of our control
We exist by the grace of God. Were He to withhold His breath of life and His creation-sustaining Word—well, that’d be it, folks.
Lent, the reality of death, and fearing God
A key distinction is that Lenten disciplines, beginning with Ash Wednesday’s reminder that “You are dust and to dust you shall return,” place our celebration of resurrection in the context of our humanity, both our mortality and our fallenness.
J. Lo and Shakira’s Super Bowl 'performance' and our culture’s mixed messages
In the midst of our culture’s ubiquitous calls to protect kids and women from abuse and harassment, especially in this #MeToo era, we pretend that as long as we call it “art” or “female empowerment,” that this sort of overt sexualization will magically have none of the consequences we now complain about.
The problem with (mis)remembering the Holocaust
Today, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp known as Auschwitz, the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Christians must be clear on both what we're for and what we're against
To put it bluntly, Christian faithfulness in a culture like ours demands that we be against many things even as we embrace the hope of the invading Kingdom of God.
