John Stonestreet

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 CultureA Student's Guide to Culture and Restoring All Things.

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  • Bill Maher gets it right … and wrong

    Bill Maher gets it right … and wrong

    Bill Maher is right to look to an earlier foundation for our civilization. He just needs to look back even further. 

  • Boredom is not always a bad thing

    Boredom is not always a bad thing

    Education should be an antidote to boredom because it should teach us how to wrestle with the questions boredom brings up, such as: Who am I? Why am I here? What is life for? Am I living well? What should I love?  

  • America’s confusing relationship with children

    America’s confusing relationship with children

    We are witnessing the domination of a life-script in which children feel superfluous.

  • The rise of AI girlfriends

    The rise of AI girlfriends

    Our human relationships don’t need replacing. They need redemption.  

  • A generation poisoned by porn speaks

    A generation poisoned by porn speaks

    In what might be the most haunting line of the article, one teenager simply scoffed at that assumption: “If you put a phone in a child’s hand, you are putting porn in a child’s hand.” 

  • Dear teens, virginity is good for you

    Dear teens, virginity is good for you

    Research consistently shows that young people who wait until after the wedding have a better chance for a stable, fulfilling, happy marriage.

  • Surprise? Marriage single best predictor of long-term happiness

    Surprise? Marriage single best predictor of long-term happiness

    The truth about marriage, however, is that it is, statistically, the single best predictor of long-term happiness.

  • Suicide rates at all-time high

    Suicide rates at all-time high

    Something is broken in the United States, and it’s us. Why, in the most prosperous time to be alive in human history, do so many think that they would be better off dead?

  • What’s behind America’s ‘great dechurching’?

    What’s behind America’s ‘great dechurching’?

    Those who are happy or indifferent about the decline of American churches are beginning to get glimpses of what an America without Christian influence will look like. It can and will get worse.

  • Canada’s suicidal slide

    Canada’s suicidal slide

    The criteria are vague enough. Since the law went into effect, however, the number of Canadians killed annually has gone from 1,000 to over 10,000. In 2021, one in 30 Canadian deaths was by assisted suicide, and only 4% of those who applied to die were turned down.