John Stonestreet and Jared Eckert

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  • The non-essential church?

    The non-essential church?

    Crises reveal much about us as individuals: our courage, our faith, our resiliency.

  • We can only 'imagine' a utopia

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  • The trans sexualization of our children has begun

    The trans sexualization of our children has begun

    In the whole run-up surrounding the push for same-sex marriage and LGBT “rights,” some predicted that the normalization of homosexuality would open the door to other deviant practices. But it was much worse than imagined.

  • Pete Buttigieg's Bible is missing a lot of pages

    Pete Buttigieg's Bible is missing a lot of pages

    If we applied the Bible in the way Mayor Pete suggests, abortion would be justified up until birth, a position now firmly embedded and championed across the Democratic Party.

  • Playing god with our genes is an existential threat

    Playing god with our genes is an existential threat

    The head of the team behind “Prime Editing” called it “a step — and potentially a significant step — towards this long-term aspiration of the field in which we are trying to be able to make just about any kind of DNA change that anyone wants at just about any site in the human genome.”

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