John Stonestreet and Timothy D Padgett

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  • Decorated mom gives life to Olympic athletes

    Decorated mom gives life to Olympic athletes

    There is one protest, a quiet one, that demands our respect from the 2021 Olympics. Female athletes who are mothers earned well-deserved attention.

  • What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    What is our Christian identity in this anonymous age?

    The deepest conflicts in this moment aren’t moral ones. It’s not a disagreement about what’s right and what’s wrong, even though certainly our views on that as a culture have dramatically changed. The deeper confusion is about who we actually are. 

  • The pandemic of despair

    The pandemic of despair

    Who else can address this culture-wide pandemic of despair but the Church? Who else, if not us fellow beggars who have found the Bread of Life. In a society literally dying of despair, to “always be ready to give an answer for the hope that you have to anyone who asks,” is not a mere suggestion. It’s a calling. It’s a matter of life or death.

  • How the image of God offers freedom

    How the image of God offers freedom

    The most significant challenges we face in our culture are not fundamentally moral ones. We do face moral challenges but the ones we face are the fruit of the problems, not the root. It’s the effect, not the cause. At the root of the issues of our culture has been a dramatic shift in how we think about the nature and value of the human person.

  • Banning critical race theory?

    Banning critical race theory?

    The root problem with critical theory is not how the American story is told, but in pre-empting any critique or debate. That sort of thinking cannot be successfully countered by emulating it. The only way to fight bad ideas is with better ones.

  • Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    Confused souls find rest in God’s image

    The new sexual orthodoxy encourages hurting young people to change what shouldn’t be changed and discourages them from working on the things that they can work on.

  • Beijing’s Nebuchadnezzar moment

    Beijing’s Nebuchadnezzar moment

    Increasingly threatened with a future of economic and cultural instability, the Chinese government is working hard to guarantee public safety and deliver the kind of “domestic tranquility” that only comes by limiting freedoms.

  • California allows hundreds of men to transfer to women's prisons

    California allows hundreds of men to transfer to women's prisons

    Placing female prisoners in physical danger isn’t a way to love them or care for them.

  • Join in 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World

    Join in 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World

    The Book of James tells us that the effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much. This has been a movement of prayer of hundreds of thousands of Christians for decades. Let’s be a part of it.

  • Losing ourselves

    Losing ourselves

    In other words, things that were once considered wrong are now considered right, and things that were once considered right are now considered wrong.