John Stonestreet

Op-ed contributor

John Stonestreet is the President of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and co-host with Eric Metaxas of Breakpoint, the Christian worldview radio program founded by the late Chuck Colson. He is co-author of A Practical Guide to Culture, A Student's Guide to Culture and Restoring All Things.

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May 11, 2019
Disabilities, identity and healing: Should we even want to be made whole?
What matters most nowadays, apparently, is not what Jesus was feeling when He was moved to heal, but how it makes some contemporary readers feel when they read about those stories.
May 10, 2019
The Manhattan Declaration 10 years on
The year 2019 is the ten-year anniversary of a statement that drew the line for Christians on three central issues: ...
May 6, 2019
Sinners in the hands of an angry planet?
Today, secular political discourse includes not only utopian substitutes of the New Heaven and New Earth, but also secular versions of the Apocalypse.
Apr 30, 2019
Sri Lanka: Why was it so hard to say the victims were Christians?
The default identifier by left-leaning politicians on Twitter was “Easter worshipers.” Seeing a phrase that hardly anyone ever uses repeated by so many was, well, just weird.
Apr 29, 2019
Academic and corporate wokeness: The real threat to religious freedom
Yale’s blatant discrimination against people with traditional religious beliefs is an important reminder of where the greatest challenge to religious freedom currently lies in our culture.
Apr 22, 2019
Restoring those who've served their time
Second Chance Month is, in the words of Prison Fellowship, a “bipartisan national movement” to address what it calls the “second prison.”
Apr 18, 2019
Tomorrow is Good Friday: Stop, reflect, pray
Tomorrow is Good Friday. Hundreds of millions of Christians around the world will observe the day Jesus was nailed to the cross to save us from our sins.
Apr 17, 2019
Religious freedom is for all or it will be for none
The New York Times recently told the story of Maha Kassef, an elementary school teacher in Montreal who, like many teachers, dreams of one day being a principal. That dream may never happen, and for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with her qualifications.
Apr 15, 2019
Trump's empty noise on religious freedom and refugees
Unless the U.S. is willing to admit persecuted religious minorities as refugees, the Potomac Declaration, as well as all those great speeches by those amazing leaders at the Ministerial are nothing but empty noise.
Apr 11, 2019
Saying animals have culture diminishes humans
One of the things that’s behind the tendency to anthropomorphize bears, dogs, and other animals is the belief that animals and people are locked in a kind of “zero sum” game, as if the only way to assure the continued survival of animals is to deny and/or diminish how distinctly different they are from humans.