Monday, Aug 20, 2018

PART I The theological issues lurking under the headlines in the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal

PART II Who is your priest? Where is your priest? How a debate from the Reformation continues to define today’s news

PART III When a name isn’t just a name: Why the Mormon Church’s announcement of a name change is actually about a theological assertion

Friday, Aug 17, 2018

PART I What is the basic distinction between human beings and animals?

PART II Confusion about distinctions between animals and humans moves from high end of developmental scale to low end of developmental scale

PART III A post-Christian culture in Southern California? Image of Bible in ads leads to death threats, removal of ad

Thursday, Aug 16, 2018

PART I Colorado once again targets cake baker Jack Phillips, falling for trap set by sexual revolutionaries

PART II How abolishing the death penalty undermines justice and leads to a further devaluing of human life

PART III Who has the ultimate authority? USA Today gets right to the real issue behind the death penalty debate

Wednesday, Aug 15, 2018

PART I New, expanding wave of sexual abuse allegations rocks Roman Catholic Church

PART II Lessons from Willow Creek: What we must learn from the mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations at one of America’s largest protestant churches

PART III It tells us something about human nature that human beings will gamble on just about anything, including opera

Tuesday, Aug 14, 2018

PART I In the great battle of worldviews, the United States now competes with China for the attention and ambition of emerging nations

PART II As Xi Jinping’s power expands, Christians and Muslims in China see their freedoms shrink

PART III In an increasingly secular age, the only churches that will survive are those that are distinctively Christian

PART IV A classic case study in secularization: How church attendance in Quebec can go from 95% to 5% in one lifetime

Monday, Aug 13, 2018

PART I Questions remain after tragic human drama plays out in the air over Seattle

PART II One year after deadly confrontation in Charlottesville, Christians must be very clear that biblical Christianity is incompatible with any claim of racial superiority

PART III Why we should be careful with our language when using the terms ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ to describe the different ideological sides in partisan politics

PART IV As always, words matter. Even when you ‘throw in the towel’ or ‘chuck up the sponge’

Friday, Aug 10, 2018

PART I Andy Stanley, once again, makes an argument that subverts the authority of Scripture and casts doubt upon biblical Christianity

PART II A problem for feminists in Germany? Why the German language threatens the deeply ingrained trajectory in German culture

PART III The moral consequences of social media: Is what we grew out of in high school now what we lean into on Twitter?

Thursday, Aug 9, 2018

PART I Another collision between religious liberty and sexual liberty: Lawsuit filed against University of Iowa for expelling Christian student group

PART II What’s missing from the coverage of Hollywood’s failure to make progress on diversity?

PART III The sexual revolution consumes its own: What we can learn from the backlash to Scarlett Johansson’s casting in, then withdrawal from, transgender role

PART IV Lithromantic, aliagender, and dead name: Introducing the new, never-ending, always-expanding glossary for the gender revolution

Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018

PART I A society that argues some have the right to demand their death will eventually argue that all have the right to demand that very death, even the youngest

PART II Separating the real from the ideal: How a corruption of human beauty becomes a huge problem

PART III One of the bloodiest weekends in the history of Chicago represents a challenge to all Christians in all places

Tuesday, Aug 7, 2018

PART I Frustrated by the slow pace of secularization, researchers turn to artificial intelligence for answers

PART II How satisfying can individually-designed secular rituals actually be?

PART III When you change the language about God, you are redefining God and worshipping a different deity