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A call to the Church to help those struggling with ideas of suicide
In the fog of questions and grief, one thing is clear: Neither Christians nor Christian pastors are immune from the suicide epidemic that’s sweeping our country.
If you were Drew Brees, what would you say? Thoughts on a faux controversy
“Controversy erupts around Drew Brees,” proclaimed news outlets on Friday, the very same news outlets who erupted the controversy engulfing one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks.
How unthinkable became unquestionable
Anyone else dizzy by how quickly some things went from being unthinkable to unquestionable?
The search for the 'gay gene': New study, predictable reactions
Nothing in our culture so clearly demonstrates the controlling power of one’s settled presuppositions like how we think and talk about sexuality.
The declining respect for clergy
My pastor recently told me that 25 years ago, the first person that people would contact when they faced a marriage crisis was their pastor. Ten years ago, he continued, it was their counselor or psychiatrist. Today, it’s their lawyers.
A Jewish doctor says 'no' to assisted suicide
While it would be far worse for New Jersey to coerce doctors to kill against their conscience, does honoring a patient’s request and making a referral mean one is still complicit in his or her death?
CNN and 586 BC: More evidence of the Bible’s historicity
Many scholars have long assumed that the stories of Jerusalem’s rise and subsequent destruction were over-inflated, self-serving myths intended to serve theological and political purposes.
Marty Sampson's church failed him
Too much of Christianity – especially evangelical Christianity – neglects intellectual discipleship altogether. Not even basic theology is articulated from some pulpits. I don’t know how else to say it: They fail God’s people.
Asteroid 2019OK’s near miss rocks scientism
On July 25th, the 100-meter wide piece of rock passed within 73,000 kilometers of Earth. To put that distance in perspective, the moon is 384,000 kilometers from Earth.
El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy: The heart of the matter
We need to ask what it is about our culture that’s producing these young men bent on killing and chaos. And we need to ask: Where is the church?