Once “Harry Potter” author J. K. Rowling became persona non grata over her stance on the transgender issue, progressive writers are left with only one literary reference: Margaret Atwood’s The…
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Teacher Anxious on Preferred Pronoun Mandate Asks Shane and John for Advice
John and Shane help us think well when our faith collides with mandates from an employer. In the question John and Shane empathize with a teacher pressured to call students…
How Augustine, Solzhenitsyn, O’Connor, and MLK Confronted the Cultural Chaos of Their Day
There’s an old Chinese curse which supposedly goes “May you live in interesting times.” It’s a version of what’s My favorite Facebook meme for 2020 so far is, “God please…
The so Called “Virginia Values Act” Undermines Religious Freedom
On July 1, the state of Virginia enacted the “Virginia Values Act,” which bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. A companion law requires employers to…
Inventors of CRISPR Win Nobel Prize, but should we “rewrite the Code of Life?”
The awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier has been heralded as an incredible step forward for women. For the first time, two…
The VP Debate, the Supreme Court, and Religious Freedom
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss the vice-presidential debate, its tone, the issues addressed . . . and the fly. They also talk about the remarkable statement by Supreme Court…
Why Progressive Christianity is “Another Gospel?”
According to recent survey, nearly a third of self-described evangelicals do not believe that Jesus Christ is truly God. Arianism, as it turns out, is a heresy that plagues multiple…
The Ballot Initiatives of 2020
Presidential candidates get all the love. Just kidding. “Love,” of course, is the wrong word. What presidential candidates get is all the attention. The presidency matters, of course, and voters…
Our Young Daughter Told Us She Is Bisexual . . .
Some tough questions rolled in this week, two of them dealing with family issues. What’s a Christian mother to do when her 12-year old daughter announces she’s “a bisexual,” and…
Our Tax Dollars Still Fund the Destruction of Embryos
In 2001, President George W. Bush limited federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research to already-existing lines of embryonic stem cells. While it wasn’t a complete ban on the research itself,…