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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  • How the 'right to marry' became a 'right to children'

    How the 'right to marry' became a 'right to children'

    Once same-sex relationships are legally called marriage and technology is available to make children outside of a heterosexual union, those who have deliberately chosen a sterile same-sex relationship now claim the right to children or else, you know, discrimination. 

  • Marriage is a calling, not a right

    Marriage is a calling, not a right

    The same is true with marriage. Jesus was asked a “do” question, and our culture is constantly “doing” something new to and with marriage: ending it, replacing it, expanding it, substituting for it.

  • Can you laugh at your enemies and love them? Rules for Christian mockery

    Can you laugh at your enemies and love them? Rules for Christian mockery

    Sadly, Christians are often among those engaging in bad-faith speech on Twitter, including against one another. We should punch up, never down. Mockery is a tool to expose evil and folly in powerful places, not for grinding down the weak.

  • Married moms are the happiest, report says

    Married moms are the happiest, report says

    A cultural myth may tell women that they will only be happy if they put themselves first and eschew their potential to bear children, but that denies central aspects of their purpose as children of God and as women.

  • Dads change with fatherhood

    Dads change with fatherhood

    Recent discoveries have suggested that dedicated fathers, like dedicated mothers, undergo dramatic hormonal and neurological shifts upon the arrival of a baby.

  • Living as earthly and heavenly citizens

    Living as earthly and heavenly citizens

    How can these dual loyalties, to Christ and to nation, blend? How does our earthly citizenship interact with our heavenly citizenship? 

  • Planned Parenthood’s new revenue stream is not a new direction

    Planned Parenthood’s new revenue stream is not a new direction

    Planned Parenthood has now jumped into this business with both feet. On its website, the organization claims that if a child or young adult is “insistent, consistent, and persistent” about their trans identity, then they should be medically “affirmed.”

  • Keep the Church in school

    Keep the Church in school

    All Christians share the fundamental view that God has revealed Himself and wants to be known. Therefore, learning is a high calling of being human. 

  • The weight of too much 'choice'

    The weight of too much 'choice'

    That misconception is, in fact, a feature of life since modernism. For most of human history, humans held no illusions of being masters of their own fate.

  • Faithful in this time and place

    Faithful in this time and place

    In that time and place, God called His people to keep the faith, commit to the tasks at hand, and steward the time they were given by remaining faithful.