John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera

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  • Christian schools should be thoroughly Christian

    Christian schools should be thoroughly Christian

    Simply put, any school wishing to be Christian must be thoroughly Christian: in purpose, content, curriculum, aim, and personnel. This is no easy task. In fact, to be a Christian educator is, to paraphrase Dr. John Stackhouse, “more than twice as hard.”

  • Dangerous 'science' behind gender transitioning

    Dangerous 'science' behind gender transitioning

    Given what is at stake, this is a vitally important question, especially since social science itself is in the midst of what’s called a “replication crisis.” In other words, when other researchers try to replicate the findings of studies in the social sciences, they often cannot. This failure of replication even includes studies that are regarded as canonical in some fields.

  • Olympic stories of faith are more precious than silver and gold

    Olympic stories of faith are more precious than silver and gold

    These stories offer a more complete picture of the Olympics than what has been portrayed in so many media reports. These are athletes who have found in Christ that which is “more lovely than silver, and more costly than gold.”

  • Decorated mom gives life to Olympic athletes

    Decorated mom gives life to Olympic athletes

    There is one protest, a quiet one, that demands our respect from the 2021 Olympics. Female athletes who are mothers earned well-deserved attention.

  • What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    The deepest conflicts in this moment aren’t moral ones. It’s not a disagreement about what’s right and what’s wrong, even though certainly our views on that as a culture have dramatically changed. The deeper confusion is about who we actually are. 

  • The pandemic of despair

    The pandemic of despair

    Who else can address this culture-wide pandemic of despair but the Church? Who else, if not us fellow beggars who have found the Bread of Life. In a society literally dying of despair, to “always be ready to give an answer for the hope that you have to anyone who asks,” is not a mere suggestion. It’s a calling. It’s a matter of life or death.

  • How the image of God offers freedom

    How the image of God offers freedom

    The most significant challenges we face in our culture are not fundamentally moral ones. We do face moral challenges but the ones we face are the fruit of the problems, not the root. It’s the effect, not the cause. At the root of the issues of our culture has been a dramatic shift in how we think about the nature and value of the human person.

  • A narrow SCOTUS ruling with serious implications for religious liberty

    A narrow SCOTUS ruling with serious implications for religious liberty

    Rather than compromise Church teaching, CSS challenged the city’s action in court. They lost at the Third Circuit, but in a 9-0 decision, CSS and religious freedom won the day at the Supreme Court.

  • Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    The new sexual orthodoxy encourages hurting young people to change what shouldn’t be changed and discourages them from working on the things that they can work on.

  • Evangelicals and casual sex

    Evangelicals and casual sex

    Churches have failed to teach young people a true, Christian understanding of sex and the human body.