John Stonestreet and David Carlson

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  May 2, 2020

  Is Critical Theory compatible with Christianity?

  If you haven’t heard the terms “intersectionality” and “critical theory,” your children likely have, at least if they ...

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  Apr 29, 2020

  God is always at work behind the scenes

  Even when we can’t see clearly what He is ultimately doing, God often choreographs our small acts of obedience into something glorious.

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  Apr 24, 2020

  The non-essential church?

  Crises reveal much about us as individuals: our courage, our faith, our resiliency.

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  Apr 4, 2020

  Running into the coronavirus crisis with lettuce and love

  Mr. Rogers used to say that in a time of crisis, we should always look for the helpers.

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  Apr 1, 2020

  We can only 'imagine' a utopia

  If the history of the 20th Century teaches us anything, it’s that this-world-only political utopianisms always lead to catastrophe, in which individuals are sacrificed on the altars of the collective good

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  Mar 7, 2020

  How dare VP Pence pray?

  Prayer is, for many today, politically unacceptable, seen as an affront to science, an obstacle to governance, and a shameful admission that we are not in control of our own destinies. Of course, that’s precisely the point of prayer.

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  Mar 4, 2020

  Coronavirus, God, and a world out of our control

  We exist by the grace of God. Were He to withhold His breath of life and His creation-sustaining Word—well, that’d be it, folks.

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  Mar 3, 2020

  Lent, the reality of death, and fearing God

  A key distinction is that Lenten disciplines, beginning with Ash Wednesday’s reminder that “You are dust and to dust you shall return,” place our celebration of resurrection in the context of our humanity, both our mortality and our fallenness.

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  Feb 6, 2020

  J. Lo and Shakira’s Super Bowl 'performance' and our culture’s mixed messages

  In the midst of our culture’s ubiquitous calls to protect kids and women from abuse and harassment, especially in this #MeToo era, we pretend that as long as we call it “art” or “female empowerment,” that this sort of overt sexualization will magically have none of the consequences we now complain about.

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  Jan 27, 2020

  The problem with (mis)remembering the Holocaust

  Today, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Nazi death camp known as Auschwitz, the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day.