For more than a century and a half, evolution has been the center of a naturalistic account on how everything — the universe, the earth, you and I — came…
Category: Colson Center
Religious Freedom and the Supreme Court
What will be the long-term impact of the Supreme Court’s rulings on religious freedom this term? Will religious individuals enjoy the same protections that religious institutions do? John Stonestsreet and…
A Letter to ‘Cancel-Culture’
To do or to say something insufficiently progressive these days risks the wrath of what’s being called “cancel-culture.” A mostly young and mostly online gaggle of so-called “social justice warriors”…
Supreme Court Affirms Religious Institutions Are Allowed to Be Religious
In a somewhat dizzying (but which will be seen, I think, as pivotal) few weeks at the Supreme Court, religious freedom has taken center stage. In two significant decisions yesterday,…
Why Neuroscience Can’t Tell Us About the Soul
In his 1996, essay entitled “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,” the late essayist Tom Wolfe predicted that new technologies (such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging or fMRI) would soon…
Pastor or Parrot?
Pastoring is always a difficult job. I can’t think of another job, in fact, in which someone is hired to do one thing (typically, lead and disciple God’s people) but…
Children, the Church, and the Culture War
A few days ago, a colleague shared comments he and his wife get when people find out they have seven kids: “Are they all yours?” “Were they all planned?” “What…
Podcast: Why Does God Care Who I Sleep with?
It might be the biggest stumbling block for modern non-believers: The Christian view of sex. Why, as author Sam Alberry asks in his new book, does God care who I…
The Supreme Court, Abortion, and Religious Freedom
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss last week’s momentous Supreme Court decisions: one that handcuffs states that try to restrict abortion, and one that protects religious institutions–especially schools–from discrimination by…
A New Declaration of Dependence—On God
On July 4, 2004, Chuck Colson’s BreakPoint commentary was entitled “A New Declaration of Dependence.” Reading through it again recently, I was struck by just how prophetic his words were.…