What Pennsylvania’s 34th-Place Family Ranking Really Means
The consequences of family instability are measurable and severe
Opinion
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3 spiritual gates we must guard to protect our homes
What voices are you listening to? Do they speak truth into your heart or do they flood your mind with lies, fears and profanities?
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Faith-based education and the Sewanee syndrome
Given the laudable goal of rectifying past racial inequities, one couldn’t help being struck by the irony of replacing “Otey” with “St. Paul,” who, critics have argued, was an apologist for slavery, instructing slaves to obey their masters, and making no explicit call for liberation when declaring that we are one in Christ, whether slave or free.
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3 truths for moving closer to God and others
Ultimately, God is the only right answer. He is that thing you've been looking for. Until you find your identity and meaning in God, you will always be looking for satisfaction in other places — money, social media, a job or other relationships.
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Cultivating a spirit of thankfulness
When we’re struggling with trials and difficulties, this sounds like a strange command, especially since we live in a culture that encourages us to act on the basis of how we feel. But God knows that when we focus on our blessings, it’s easier to keep our problems and concerns in the right perspective.
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No: A Christian worldview isn’t a code word for ‘whiteness’
The ground is not ours to give up. Holding these beliefs isn’t some form of cultural construct in favor of white people — it’s just orthodox Christianity
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Myanmar: Christians, let’s pray for our brothers and sisters
This is a spiritual battle that can be won only in prayer and fasting. The question is, do we have the fire in our bones? Do we grasp our vital intercessory role in this theater of terror? Or is Myanmar just another crisis in the news that we can skip over on our way to Starbucks?
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Twitter mob comes for Dave Chappelle. It’s time to realize it isn’t as powerful as it thinks
The sooner people stop giving unrepresentative Twitter mobs the time of day, the sooner they lose their monopoly on the narrative.
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The Pope’s economics would move the world back to medieval mass starvation
The Pope enjoys infallibility in matters of theology and morality, but not science, according to Catholic doctrine.
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Do Not Conform?
Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor reflects on the choice of Robert Jeffress as the keynote preacher for the 2021 Missouri Baptist Pastors’ Conference organized with the theme of Romans 12:2, a passage where Paul warned against conforming to the patterns of this world.
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Invisible art and an invisible God
Garau named his immaterial sculpture lo sono, which translates to “I am”, explaining: “After all, don’t we shape a God we’ve never seen?”
