John Stonestreet and Jared Hayden

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  Jun 4, 2020

  Why the Bible is not a prop

  Rather than using it to advance an agenda or score points with a religious base, it would’ve been far more valuable and helpful if the President had opened it and read to the nation its words of comfort and conviction, and especially its call to repentance.

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  Jun 3, 2020

  Our world split apart and the hope of Pentecost

  We can go to space, and yet we are, by any objective measure, a nation barely holding itself together.

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  May 21, 2020

  Remembering Ravi Zacharias: Helping believers think

  From Ravi, I began to understand the extent to which you could not only think about faith, but actually think with faith.

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  May 10, 2020

  Are gov't restrictions going too far?

  What makes a legitimate government action and what crosses the line into anti-religious bias?

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  May 2, 2020

  Is Critical Theory compatible with Christianity?

  If you haven’t heard the terms “intersectionality” and “critical theory,” your children likely have, at least if they ...

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  Apr 24, 2020

  The non-essential church?

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

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  Apr 1, 2020

  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

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  Mar 4, 2020

  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.

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  Mar 3, 2020

  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.

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  Feb 6, 2020

  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.