Eric Metaxas and Roberto Rivera

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  • Connecting With Millennials

    Connecting With Millennials

    If we want to respond to this opportunity and actually reach this unattached generation, we're going to have to connect them with something they really value. We're going to have to refine our message and our ministry—no more half-hearted Christianity.

  • Tinkering With Frankenkinder

    Tinkering With Frankenkinder

    An FDA panel is currently reviewing a procedure that would allow a child to inherit genetic material from three different people. If that sounds like one too many to you, congratulations! Your moral intuition is more highly developed than that of many scientific researchers.

  • North Korea's Unspeakable Atrocities

    North Korea's Unspeakable Atrocities

    Innocent blood is crying from the ground of North Korea. While I'm pleased that the U.N. is urging the international community to get tough on the North Korean regime for destroying the lives of its twenty-five million people, there's a worldview irony peeking out from the pages of its recent report.

  • Popcorn vs. Preaching: What the 'Son of God' Movie Is (and Isn't)

    Popcorn vs. Preaching: What the 'Son of God' Movie Is (and Isn't)

    There's a right way and a wrong way to watch the upcoming "Son of God" movie. Just as with Gibson's blockbuster ten years ago, we also need to be a little careful.

  • Babies and the Not-So-Blank Slate: Morality Isn't Invented

    Babies and the Not-So-Blank Slate: Morality Isn't Invented

    New findings out of my alma mater, Yale University, would seem to suggest that humans are born with an innate sense of morality. Where have I heard that before?

  • Conservative Christianity Hurts Marriage?

    Conservative Christianity Hurts Marriage?

    According to a study about to be published in the American Journal of Sociology, being conservative Protestant, i.e., an evangelical, is not helpful when it comes to staying married. There's the question of just who is a "conservative Protestant."

  • Faith Rising in East, Setting in West? Europe and Christianity

    Faith Rising in East, Setting in West? Europe and Christianity

    The Christian sun is rising in the east. Eastern Europe, that is. And the Western media just doesn't get it.

  • An Ironic Ecumenism: The Global War on Christians (Part 2)

    An Ironic Ecumenism: The Global War on Christians (Part 2)

    You'd think that Christians would be completely safe in the land of Gandhi. Unfortunately, you'd be wrong. If I asked you to name the country that has witnessed the single greatest outburst of anti-Christian violence in recent years, you'd probably guess somewhere like North Korea or an Islamic country such as Egypt.

  • Paying in Blood: The Global War on Christians (Part 1)

    Paying in Blood: The Global War on Christians (Part 1)

    We're at war. Or at least, war is being waged on our brothers and sisters in Christ across the globe. Sometime in November, the North Korean regime publicly executed eighty people in seven cities across the country. In each instance, a crowd was forced to watch as ten people, their heads covered with white bags, were tied to stakes and machine gunned to death.

  • A Thanksgiving Turkey of a Film: Prurient Humor for Kids

    A Thanksgiving Turkey of a Film: Prurient Humor for Kids

    Here's a question – just how low will Hollywood go to advertise an animated kids' Thanksgiving movie?