Look at your life. Life is hard. Look at the news. In our fallen, sinful world, evil swirls about like a violent dust devil, clouding the air of absolute truth and muddying the waters of pure grace that flow to...

From time to time we hear some telling us that evangelical Christianity must retool our sexual ethic if we're ever going to reach the next generation. Some say that Millennials, particularly, are leaving the church because of our "obsession" with sexual morality...

Since when did it become “extremist” to be pro-life, pro-family, and pro-marriage? In May I wrote an article entitled “Anti-Christian Activists Will Defeat Themselves.” Within days, my thesis was being confirmed. A couple of weeks ago, Martha MacCallum, sitting in...

A new Gallup poll shows that 42 percent of Americans believe God created human beings in their present form within the last 10,000 years.  This is what most would call a Biblical, young earth creationist view.  An additional 31 percent ...

I am a Millennial and I am not leaving the church…or starting my own. I get weary of looking at all the predictions about me. And if I read all the statistics about myself, I would believe some interesting things.

It seems there isn’t a news cycle which goes by without someone “making history” these days. Everyone and everything is making history everywhere at all times, apparently. It’s hard to pinpoint when this trend started, but the “historic” election of...

One of my readers, we’ll call him Moses, is the publisher of a mainstream newspaper in California. He wrote me the other day with an insightful observation. Since Moses works in one of the most liberal industries, in one of...

David asked the question in Psalm 11:3, “When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?”  All of us have to answer that question.
 
Should we be lulled into sleep because the world as we know it ...

Like many conservatives, I have been able to enjoy the writing of Marilynne Robinson, even though she appears to be quite at home in the liberal mainline tradition. Despite the differences I have had with her outlook on many issues, her novels have been written with depth, nuance, and sensitivity. This is apparently because she writes about the Fifties, back when all those characteristics were still legal.

[T]he latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)... reckons that global warming has latterly been occurring at the rate of — wait for it — 0.05 degrees Celsius per decade, plus or minus 0.1 degrees Celsius... In other words, the observed rate of warming is less than the margin of error.

This item is a catch all of various factoids that have stacked up on my desk.  I am throwing them into one item simply as examples of how America is changing and losing our footing as we move further away...

A recent article in “World” Magazine titled “Still-silent shepherds” summarized the top reasons evangelical pastors give for not preaching against abortion. Among them is that “preaching on the issue might politically stigmatize the pastor or politicize the pulpit, scaring seekers off.”

Select a passerby at random on a crowded city street and ask him to describe Christians and you are likely to hear words like “judgmental, divisive, and narrow-minded”. In some circles, the word “Christian” has become synonymous with bigotry. Ironically,...

The Passion Week of Jesus Christ is the pinnacle of all history. Millions of words have been written about it, dozens of movies have offered a depiction, and it’s been a central figure for the artist for 2,000 years. Scripture is replete with its description, giving a glimpse of the crucifixion from just about everyone’s perspective. The view of the Father is alluded to in Genesis 22, the view of the Son from Psalms 22, the view of Israel from Isaiah 53, and the view of the prophets throughout the Old Testament.

Moral relativism is the idea that there is no such thing as Good and Evil. Things which I consider to be good might not be considered good by you, likewise with evil. Everything is relative, morally. It’s a position typically...