Recent months have brought a whirlwind of emotions. Sadness. Fear. Disappointment. Loneliness. They’ve crashed over us like waves pounding against the shore. The challenges and struggles of life in a…
Month: March 2021
Largest U.S. Evangelical Adoption Agency Waves the Rainbow Flag – Joe Carter
The Story: The country’s largest evangelical adoption and foster-care agency has abandoned its previous stance on biblical morality and says it will now place children with openly gay and transgender…
Global Methodism’s New Church – Mark Tooley
This week conservative United Methodists unveiled The Global Methodist Church, which will launch when the denomination formally splits. When will that split occur? In 2019 the 13 million–member global church…
Apple’s Logo and Eden’s Forbidden Fruit – Brett McCracken
I end chapter one (“Information Gluttony”) of my new book, The Wisdom Pyramid, by contemplating how Satan must delight in the unique temptations of our hyper-distracted, overwhelmed-with-information digital age. I…
Persecution and Failed States Go Hand in Hand
In just the last few weeks, two mass kidnappings took place, both at schools in northwestern Nigeria. In the first, “unidentified gunmen” attacked a boarding school in Niger state, killing…
Persecution and Failed States Go Hand in Hand
In just the last few weeks, two mass kidnappings took place, both at schools in northwestern Nigeria. In the first, “unidentified gunmen” attacked a boarding school in Niger state, killing…
A Review and Refutation of Provisionist Confusion
I did a quick teaching DL from home today to respond to the following meme (and briefly to one other that I don’t want to display). I tried to use…
The Baby Boom that Wasn’t, Why COVID Lockdowns Haven’t Resulted in More Births
There were some initial thoughts as the COVID pandemic was sweeping the country last year that the various lockdowns would result in a baby boom. But as it happens, that…
New Survey Reveals Common Ground Between Left- and Right-Leaning America
Conservative Christians these days would not be faulted for believing that they have so little in common with their neighbors on the opposite end of the political spectrum that there’s…