John Stonestreet and Jared Hayden

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Jun 24, 2013
Beware of Bible McNuggets: When Reading the Bible Can Be Spiritually Unhealthy
The spiritual diet of too many Christians consists of a lot of Bible McNuggets. And that's not healthy.
Jun 20, 2013
The Government, the Pill, and Our Daughters
So the government wants our daughters to have access to the morning-after pill. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
Jun 5, 2013
Yes, Christian, There is a Devil
Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the phrase "defining deviancy down" to describe the process by which we accept outrageous acts that we would never have tolerated a generation ago. Well, looking at recent headlines, let's consider adopting a new term: defining depravity down.
May 25, 2013
Hard Questions: Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, and Birth Control
It was striking that in the oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case before the Supreme Court so little credence was given to the connection between marriage and procreation.
May 24, 2013
No Limits, No Culture: Portents of a Post-Christian America
On May 7th, Delaware became the eleventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. On May 14th, Minnesota became the twelfth. While that leaves thirty-eight states that haven't redefined marriage, we shouldn't deceive ourselves. As Rod Dreher recently pointed out in "The American Conservative," historians will one day remember our time as "a cultural revolution."
May 22, 2013
Materialism vs. Reality: A Worldview Just Not Big Enough
C. S. Lewis observed that the most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones argued, but the ones assumed. And there's little doubt that in most universities across the United States, secularist materialism, in one form or another, is the assumed and unquestioned perspective from which most subjects are understood and taught.
May 18, 2013
Gosnell and the Abortion License: Incoherence at Its Best
Among the many offenses of the "abortion license in America" is its incoherence and arbitrariness. Gosnell faced the death penalty for actions which, if they had been performed weeks or even minutes earlier, might not have even been a criminal offense.
May 8, 2013
Collins and Broussard: There's Courage, Then There's Courage
Now, I'm not interested in questioning Collins's courage. It's likely that this announcement wasn't easy for him. I do think it's worth noting, however, how many pundits and other public figures were tripping over each other to shower him with encouragement, support, and praise. When you get a call from the President of the United States to congratulate you on the step you've just taken, it's a safe guess you really didn't have much to fear in taking it.
May 4, 2013
The Overblown War Between Faith and Science
real medical breakthroughs are far more likely to come as the result of research done using adult stem cells. And this leaves an obvious question: Why pursue embryonic stem cell research at all? Given the "ethical blemishes," and the lack of results, why do people still insist on pursuing this moral and scientific dead end?
Apr 26, 2013
We Hate to Say We Told You So
In a scene from Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm, the mathematician skeptical about whether the park is a good idea, watches the T-Rex burst out of its enclosure and says, "I hate being right all the time."