03/28/2024
The reality of sin and why Good Friday is good news.
03/27/2024
On Holy Saturday 2007, cartoonist Johnny Hart died of a stroke while working at his drawing table. Hart was the award-winning creator of the popular comic strips “The Wizard of Id” and “B.C.” which, at one time, reached 100 million readers worldwide every day. In a 1999 BreakPoint commentary, Chuck Colson identified Hart as “the most widely read Christian of our time,” with “more readers than C.S. Lewis, Frank Peretti, and Billy Graham combined.”
03/26/2024
Detransitioner tells why the Source of all reality is Jesus Christ.
03/25/2024
It's time for a revival of Christian imagination inspired by God instead of self and online likes.
03/22/2024
Last week, Kamala Harris became the first vice president in U.S. history to make a public visit to an abortion clinic.
03/21/2024
How is it that so many, including so many in the Church, now embrace a view of marriage that was unthinkable just a few decades ago?
03/20/2024
The unprecedented rise of mental health problems in Generation Z suggests that the overuse of this tool has done as much harm as good.
03/19/2024
Walgreens and CVS, the two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, recently announced that they will begin offering the abortion pill mifepristone at select stores this month. Walgreens plans to sell the pill at locations in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois, with hopes to expand to other locations and states soon. CVS will offer the pill in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and then expand to other states.
03/18/2024
Christian educators can be the antidote to the murky educational system of the moment/
03/14/2024
Seven years ago, the headlines warned that "the Great Barrier Reef is dying." Given the alarm in those headlines, Australia’s most famous natural treasure is surely lost, isn’t it? Well, no. There's a lesson in that, and it starts by seeing the world as God’s creation.
03/13/2024
New book helps us understand and respond to the phenomenon seeping into the Church.
03/12/2024
Despite what oracles of a post-Christian society promised, the kids are far from happier and free.
03/11/2024
It's about honoring God no matter what for Hobby Lobby owners David and Barbara Green.
03/08/2024
It turns out the science isn’t settled and suffering families have been lied to all along.
03/07/2024
Referendum seeks to eliminate the word “mother” and reference to marriage from the Irish constitution.
03/06/2024
Scientists who mimic creation's design unknowingly glorify the Creator.
03/05/2024
In a prolife world, recent reports about rape rates would be a shocking story about crime and not about access to abortion.
03/04/2024
Another case of a teen taken from home over pronoun usage.
03/01/2024
"Every time this has been put to the public for a vote since the casting down of Roe, we have lost. And we’ve lost not only in blue states like Michigan. We have lost in red states like Ohio, Montana, Kentucky. And these are indicators that there’s something not right in the worldview structures that we had assumed all along were in our favor, and they’re not. And that changes what our job description looks like post-Roe."
02/29/2024
Thinking about our relationship to time from a Judeo-Christian understanding.
02/28/2024
It turns out, McCartney had a conversation in which he embarrassed his mother. Then she died at the age of forty-seven when the singer was just fourteen years old. Now he wishes he had an eraser he could use to rub that "yesterday" moment away...
02/28/2024
Some moral clarity for an industry that has been an ethical Wild West.
02/27/2024
Children challenge the secular, hyper-individualist worldview to its core. They present an immediate, shared responsibility that directs us beyond material gain and personal fulfillment to higher ideals.
02/26/2024
We don't need to justify the beautiful invitation God has given us in taking a day of rest.
02/23/2024
Though many predictions about AI are still more science fiction than fact, it is advancing faster than many expected.
02/22/2024
Male and female are real and binary, a nonnegotiable truth discernible by science, taught in the Bible and written in creation. Denying the reality and relevance of sexed bodies as trans activists do is profoundly anti-scientific. It is notable that even a scientist famous for denying the God who made us male and female can see this.
02/21/2024
In a rare moment of bipartisanship, senators on both sides of the aisle have agreed that social media is not safe for teens and that it’s time for the government to do something about it.
02/20/2024
Last year, the population of the nation of China dropped by at least two million people. That number is over double the nation’s population decline in 2022. For context, this is like the U.S. losing the entire population of the state of Nebraska or the city of Houston, Texas in a single year.
02/19/2024
Christians can arm themselves with simple and focused points to address any pro-abortion argument.
02/16/2024
While Christianity is personal, it is not private. It makes claims about all of reality, most notably that Christ is Lord of all. Christianity cannot be reduced to some therapeutic or pragmatic formula. It is to be lived, publicly.
02/15/2024
The West's staggering embrace of assisted suicide and why Christians must proclaim the imago Dei message.
02/14/2024
Today is both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday. Could there be two more culturally different days?
02/13/2024
Healing and wholeness can only be found by embracing, not rejecting, who God made us to be in the first place.
02/12/2024
Earlier this month, tech multi-millionaire and anti-aging obsessionist Bryan Johnson invited 2,500 people to apply for a spot in his latest endeavor. The project’s goal is simply, “Don’t die.”
02/09/2024
Parents are forced to fight for their daughter in the public sphere while an anti-sex-change law for minors waits in limbo.
02/07/2024
Christians must challenge the smorgasbord of perversion being presented to culture as healthy for marriage.
02/06/2024
As fertility hovers around an all-time low and pet ownership at an all-time high, more Americans are not only talking about but treating furry companions like children.
02/05/2024
As the West loses touch with its Creator, let’s remember how Christ gave us (back) our dignity.
02/02/2024
Getting the stats right so parents can get the right kind of help.
02/01/2024
The New York Times complains that fathers might be depicted too positively in the popular cartoon.
01/31/2024
Avoid the death spiral of self-worship.
01/30/2024
Despite progressive states trying to ban APR, the treatment is proving to be safe for moms and lifesaving for babies.
01/29/2024
More proof that 'gender-affirming care' does not follow the science but instead follows ideology, even to its undoing.
01/26/2024
A warning to a society too eager to pull the trigger on transitioning.
01/25/2024
Democracy is having a moment, which is another reason why Christians must be the moral people upon which a free and representative government depends.
01/24/2024
Until 1980, in fact, the sexes voted within a few percentage points of each other. Since then, things have changed dramatically.
01/23/2024
Standpoint epistemology is the view that everything we think and know, and even what we consider knowledge to be, is determined solely by our race, “gender,” sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and other identity categories.
01/22/2024
In this age of accelerating technology and ideologues eager to wield it, the most vulnerable members of society need someone to hold so-called “experts” accountable and to ask questions about human design, purpose, rights, and relationships that no study can answer.
01/19/2024
Italian scholar helped lay the foundations of the Church’s place in civil society.
01/18/2024
Why the Christian view does not need to exclude or assume life on other planets.
01/17/2024
Typical progressive issues have liabilities these days, but abortion, with its connection to 'limitless autonomy,' is proving to be a winning campaign focus for Biden and his party.
01/16/2024
01/15/2024
King's urging that "unjust laws degrade human beings" have relevance today on all social issues misaligned from our Creator.
01/12/2024
Twenty-two states have now stopped or limited so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.
01/11/2024
The method many Christian parents and churches use to pass on the faith—reinforcement without taking counter ideas seriously—is the one most vulnerable to failure.
01/10/2024
How to react in good faith to biased opinions.
01/09/2024
With Constantine came new questions, such as what properly belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God? That question remains a central issue of Western political thought today.
01/08/2024
We must know what AI is for before experimenting with what it can do.
01/05/2024
In the real world, the freedom to be fully human is grounded in the way God made us.
01/04/2024
If marriage and having children are seen as merely a means to pleasure, we will be disappointed when these things are difficult, painful, or boring, as they often are.
01/03/2024
Even if everyone else does, Christians must not forget the spiritual root of this conflict.
01/02/2024
Proximity directs priority.
12/29/2023
In the face of Gen Z’s mental health crisis, it is the Gospel and not gloom that should motivate and inform us.
12/28/2023
Those who tell children that their “fancy bodies” may, in fact, be the wrong bodies and in need of social, chemical, or surgical alteration who are living in the land of make-believe.
12/27/2023
Unless limited by a health issue, attending a house church, or using creative sanctuary furnishings, Christians should always choose pews over couches.
12/25/2023
To celebrate Christ’s birth, we must intentionally take the time to ponder the wonder of it, rejoice in it, and respond in faith to all that God has done for us.
12/22/2023
An often-overlooked detail in the Gospel of Luke reveals the powerful value God places on pre-born life.
12/21/2023
The First Amendment has, so far, been an effective barrier against unnecessary limits on freedoms, even when done “for our good.”
12/20/2023
God made us for relationships. As helpful as computers and phones are, they are not substitutes for real people.
12/19/2023
To be authentically me is to be who God says I am. Our identity is established by, guaranteed by, and secured in Jesus Christ.
12/15/2023
Christians are called to steward the nations they are in.
12/14/2023
The danger in refusing to honor the imperfect isn’t just the temptation to whitewash others’ sins while excusing our own.
12/13/2023
After years of conservative speakers being canceled and shouted down, it is clear that many progressives only wish to hear their own voices.
12/12/2023
Christians believe that God has revealed Himself in the world He made and in His Word.
12/11/2023
Not everything in Augustine’s Christmas sermons is as theologically clear, but we would do well to ponder his words on the wonder and the many paradoxes of the incarnation and join him in celebrating and rejoicing in the birth of our Lord.
12/08/2023
Apparently, it really matters what men think about themselves, about women, and about families.
12/07/2023
How Christians can have a courageous faith is the focus.
12/06/2023
These are hard truths indeed, but hard truths are more loving than false narratives.
12/05/2023
What is the boundary between fiddling with a photo and faking one? Does it even matter?
12/04/2023
On the Incarnation of the Word is an especially helpful read during Advent and Christmastide, when we celebrate again the coming of the Incarnate Word of God, who became flesh and dwelt among us.
12/01/2023
The Jews are also a tangible reminder that humanity’s story is not ultimately a tragedy.
11/30/2023
When our lives are stripped of tangible connections with our neighbors, our neighborhoods, and our families, we lose sight of many things that matter.
11/29/2023
If everything must be sacrificed to your ideology, then it’s much more than a cause that demands justice. It’s an idol that demands worship.
11/28/2023
Are we so busy justifying our actions that we are failing to own the consequences of them?
11/27/2023
His faith in the intelligibility of the universe was grounded in his belief that the world was governed by divine reason, the Logos.
11/22/2023
The month of November marks the death of John Witherspoon, one of the most important and most underrated of the American founding fathers.
11/21/2023
This Thanksgiving, it’s appropriate to thank God for our heritage, to remember the warnings of our nation’s forebears, and to pray for renewal in the church and in our nation.
11/20/2023
The problem, which philosophers and writers over the years have pointed out, is that if everything is determined and humans do not have free will, that would include the belief in metaphysical naturalism and every part of the thought process that led to it.
11/17/2023
This is how a society runs toward death: not only by denying God but by denying the obvious realities of the world He created.
11/16/2023
Young people need to know that their hearts, minds, and bodies can find healing from their trauma and can learn to accept who they are as a gift of God.
11/15/2023
In general, shaped by a secular vision of life and the world, Westerners tend to underestimate the significance of religion.
11/14/2023
Scientists trying to turn evolution into a theory of everything might expect nature to answer, “I am who I am.” But there’s only One who can truly say that. Why not give Him credit for a change?
11/10/2023
During the twentieth century, the world moved forward on the inertia and inheritance Christianity gave to the West. This momentum, however, only lasted so long.
11/09/2023
The biblical view of the world, especially its description of the inherent value and moral nature of the human person, is the only basis for freedom in all of human history.
11/08/2023
Everyone, including Muslims, suffers at the hands of radical Islam. Ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims.
11/07/2023
The Christian’s most powerful witness and that God is faithful to His people everywhere, even behind bars.
11/06/2023
Christians that the Spirit is God. He’s a Person, not a force.
11/03/2023
As Lewis wrote elsewhere, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
11/02/2023
We live in God’s world. He promises to “make all things new.” That will be how the story ends.
11/01/2023
People are looking for the Truth. It is our job as the Church to proclaim the Truth from the rooftops and let people know there is another way, that Jesus Christ is the truth, the way, and the life.
10/31/2023
Back in 2007, Chuck Colson described that history in a Breakpoint he called “Honoring the Witnesses.” Here’s Chuck Colson:
10/30/2023
Paul’s instructions in Philippians 4 should guide our celebrations. Christians should think about “whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and commendable.”
10/27/2023
Kids don’t need “empowerment.” They need parents
10/26/2023
Can Christians honestly look around and conclude that there is more nationalism melded with their faith than in the past?
10/25/2023
Education should be an antidote to boredom because it should teach us how to wrestle with the questions boredom brings up, such as: Who am I? Why am I here? What is life for? Am I living well? What should I love?
10/24/2023
The way we live, the things we value, the roles we assume, and the priorities we set have made family an afterthought.
10/23/2023
Even the smallest living things remind us of our fragility.
10/20/2023
The current system invites mistreatment and exploitation.
10/19/2023
Jesus of Nazareth is one of those rare historical figures whom nearly everyone wants to claim.
10/18/2023
Medical “care” that intentionally harms any person for no medical purpose contradicts the very meaning of “care” and, therefore, medicine.
10/17/2023
Radical Islam and the far-Left share hatred for the Western tradition. They cannot stomach free markets, objective morality, knowledge, or the uncompromising priority of human liberty, especially religious freedom.
10/16/2023
Christianity is and has been good for the world, and its decline will bring horrific consequences.
10/12/2023
History is full of examples of societies that tamper with God’s design for marriage, sex, and the family.
10/11/2023
For the sake of truth and out of love for our neighbors, Christians must be prepared to push back against these bad ideas.
10/10/2023
While people on both sides of the conflict suffer, Christians cannot excuse the outrageous evil of terrorists.
10/09/2023
Given today’s tendency toward overspecialized fields of academic study, Grosseteste’s vision that Christ mediates all knowledge is more relevant than ever.
10/06/2023
Far from being an otherworldly religion, Christianity teaches both the importance and goodness of life in this world.
10/05/2023
Moral truths are an essential requirement to consider in scientific exploits.
10/04/2023
Jesus’ pastoral practice was, of course, unparalleled. He often surprised people.
10/03/2023
Historically speaking, equality, human rights, and protection of the weak aren’t “self-evident.”
10/02/2023
We will answer before God whether we remained silent or dared to speak?