John Stonestreet and S. Michael Craven

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  Aug 21, 2013

  Jihad Against Egypt's Christians: The US Must Speak Out

  In the midst of the chaos, Islamic extremists in Egypt are burning churches and murdering Christians. The U.S. must speak out.

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  Aug 13, 2013

  The Russian Demographic Crisis: Resisting the Influence of a Sexualized Culture

  Many pundits, determined to avoid the moral realities, will point to economic decline as the primary cause of low birth rates, and this no doubt has played a role, but the greater factor has been the abandonment of traditional marriage as the principal means for regulating sexual behavior. As Russian society abandoned traditional marriage, birth rates dropped, out-of-wedlock births rose, contraception and abortion increased, and the traditional family began to disappear.

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  Aug 9, 2013

  Millennials and Mainlines: When 'Relevant' Christianity Is Irrelevant

  If we want Christianity to stay relevant with young people, they say, we've got to rewrite the way we do church, including our songs. Let's think about that.

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  Aug 3, 2013

  Suffer the Little Children: Genetic Testing and Lives Worth Living

  Imagine you and your spouse find out you're expecting. Having experienced this moment a few times, I know there's nothing quite like it. Your world changes, and within days, your child's entire biography unfolds in your mind: her first steps, first words, kindergarten, little league, ballet, high school, college, and eventually a young adult who will make you insanely proud. It's all so promising.

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  Jul 9, 2013

  A Perfect Daughter: Loving a Special Needs Child

  When prenatal testing revealed that the White's second child had Down Syndrome, Heath was heartbroken and dreaded her arrival. Heath later understood that his daughter was just as precious as any other child. And he wanted the world to know the same thing.

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  Jun 28, 2013

  Marriage and Imagination: After the Supreme Court

  Even after the Supreme Court's rulings, can you imagine our culture returning to marriage as God designed it? As we often say around here, politics is downstream of culture. Given what the current cultural definition of marriage is, the political one will soon follow, unless it is challenged and redeemed. This is where the battle must be waged.

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  Jun 24, 2013

  Beware of Bible McNuggets: When Reading the Bible Can Be Spiritually Unhealthy

  The spiritual diet of too many Christians consists of a lot of Bible McNuggets. And that's not healthy.

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  Jun 20, 2013

  The Government, the Pill, and Our Daughters

  So the government wants our daughters to have access to the morning-after pill. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

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  Jun 13, 2013

  Why Is Christianity Losing in America? (Part 2)

  When I write "Christianity is losing in America," of course I don't mean that God or, by extension, his kingdom is failing. The kingdom of God comes in force unlike anything else in creation. It is the present form of Christianity—uniquely influenced by American culture—that is failing precisely because it has been enculturated with ideas foreign to the kingdom of God and the good news of the kingdom.

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  Jun 5, 2013

  Yes, Christian, There is a Devil

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the phrase "defining deviancy down" to describe the process by which we accept outrageous acts that we would never have tolerated a generation ago. Well, looking at recent headlines, let's consider adopting a new term: defining depravity down.