John Stonestreet and G. Shane Morris

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Sep 9, 2019
Gay marriage = interracial marriage? Answering an apples-to-oranges argument
For years now, Christians defending the biblical definition of marriage have dealt with a particularly frustrating retort: “Well, Christians used to be against interracial marriage, too,” people will say.
Sep 6, 2019
'The Peanut Butter Falcon': A redeeming story told well
Imagine Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn,” only with a crab-pot thief and a young man with Down syndrome, instead of Tom and Huck.
Sep 5, 2019
Gender transitions for kids easier than tonsillectomies: What about parental rights?
Teenagers need permission from parents for nearly any medical procedure, and even before getting a tattoo or body piercing. However, whenever a choice has to do with sex and gender, increasingly parents are being left out in the cold, and the results are both distressing and infuriating.
Sep 3, 2019
The search for the 'gay gene': New study, predictable reactions
Nothing in our culture so clearly demonstrates the controlling power of one’s settled presuppositions like how we think and talk about sexuality.
Sep 2, 2019
From forcing nuns to freeing nurses: HHS' about-face on religious liberty
I thank God the HHS is under new management. Protecting nurses from violating their consciences is an infinite improvement over forcing nuns to violate theirs.
Aug 30, 2019
An ethical blind spot for evangelicals
I’m unapologetically Protestant but, as I’ve said for a while now, our Catholic friends have long led the way on many bioethical issues like abortion and assisted reproductive technologies.
Aug 29, 2019
Why have young brits lost hope?
Nihilism is running rampant among Millennial and Gen-Z Brits.
Aug 24, 2019
Animal conservation belongs in a Christian worldview
If humans are just one animal among many, then our impulse to save endangered species and our sense of responsibility for them don’t make much sense.
Aug 23, 2019
Breaking up with purity culture?
Here’s a prediction: Thousands of years from now when archaeologists excavate American churches, they’ll identify the 1990s era by “What Would Jesus Do?” bracelets, DC Talk CDs, and purity rings.
Aug 21, 2019
Marty Sampson's church failed him
Too much of Christianity – especially evangelical Christianity – neglects intellectual discipleship altogether. Not even basic theology is articulated from some pulpits. I don’t know how else to say it: They fail God’s people.