The decision we face

At last, Election Day arrives and we will soon (we sincerely hope) know the results of the 2024 presidential election. I’ll start by putting my cards ...

December 4, 2024

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“Unyielding determination and extraordinary heroism”

Today marks 246 years of the American struggle for independence. Though most people refer to the national holiday as “the Fourth of July,” it is formally named Independence Day. Whatever you call it, the day celebrates the greatest single moment of p ...

August 4, 2022

The Supreme Court strikes down Roe and Casey

“This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” You know the words from Psalm 118:24, and those words are true every day. But doxology is surely right on this day, June 24, 2022, when the Supreme Court of the United States stru ...

July 24, 2022

The New Left and the radical transformation of America

If you want to understand the ideological controversies behind today’s headlines, you need to look to the past—and to one specific event that took place exactly 60 years ago today. On June 15, 1962, a group of activist college students associated wit ...

July 15, 2022

Has anybody noticed that women are disappearing?

Where are all the women? It wasn’t that long ago that the world had a lot of them. They lived in our neighborhoods and even in our houses. They were thought to be rather indispensable, amounting to more than half of the entire human population. Back ...

July 13, 2022

Horror and broken hearts in Uvalde: Our first response is to grieve and pray as we seek a path forward

Uvalde, Texas, is about as Texas as you can get. Less than a hundred miles from the Mexican border, it is considered to be the southernmost reach of the Texas Hill Country. The town is named for a Spanish governor, Juan de Ugalde, and it has somethin ...

June 25, 2022

The reckoning of the Lord: The Southern Baptist Convention faces the truth

I am writing this essay in one of the most difficult moments ever experienced by my beloved denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. Considering the historical roots of the SBC, that is quite a statement, but it is true. It is a moment long in ...

June 23, 2022

Breaking News: Christian school caught teaching Biblical truth

A moment of truth is coming for every Christian school, every evangelical institution. The hour is coming when we will know where every Christian college stands, what every Christian school teaches, and whether these institutions will take a stand fo ...

June 20, 2022

Till we have faces

For some passengers, the word came midflight. In Florida, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle had blocked enforcement of the Biden administration’s prolonged mask mandate for airlines and public transportation. Judge Mizelle handed down her r ...

May 20, 2022

Every knee shall bow

We live in an age of political intensity, and political passions often appear to drive world events. If anything, the world seems too political. And yet, many Christians fail to understand the political nature of Christianity—even the politics of ...

May 15, 2022

Disney goes for broke on woke

“My business is making people, especially children, happy,” said the late Walt Disney, founder of the global entertainment juggernaut that bears his name. “The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together—and that’s the backbone ...

April 30, 2022