Opinion

• Ukrainians: 'We Just Want to Go Home' The war in Ukraine has resulted in the largest refugee crisis since World War II. The UN Refugee Agency reports that more than seven million Ukrainians have been displaced within their country and an additional seven million... Nov 25, 2022

  

  Ukrainians: 'We Just Want to Go Home'
• Is it Wrong to Go Black Friday Shopping? If you have a large family, Christmas shopping for every member can be stressful. If buying for each member proves too difficult, try to buy one larger gift for the whole family or only buy for the kids. Kids have the most fun... Nov 23, 2022

  

  Is it Wrong to Go Black Friday Shopping?
• What We’re Missing about Mass Shootings Our society largely fails to cultivate young men, to teach them about their fallen natures, and to morally form them to choose love over hate and courage over violence. Thus, the epidemics of addiction, aimlessness, depression,... Nov 23, 2022

  

  What We’re Missing about Mass Shootings
• Let's Resolve to Be People for Whom Others Give Thanks As we prepare for Thanksgiving tomorrow, let’s resolve to be people for whom others give thanks. And let’s do so out of transforming gratitude for the One to whom we direct the thanksgiving of our tables and of our hearts. Nov 23, 2022

  Let's Resolve to Be People for Whom Others Give Thanks
• I Learned How to Be Grateful from Those Who Have So Little Looking around my hometown of Los Angeles, my heart soars with gratitude. My home is safe, my bills are paid, and I am fortunate to be able to serve my family an ample Thanksgiving meal. And yet, I am fully aware that hundreds... Nov 23, 2022

  I Learned How to Be Grateful from Those Who Have So Little
• Bringing the Giving Back to Thanksgiving The stillness of Thanksgiving is followed by the frenetic motion of the pre-Christmas holiday shopping days:  Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and then the unexpected day arrives. It is called Giving Tuesdays. What a refreshing... Nov 22, 2022

  Bringing the Giving Back to Thanksgiving
• Why C.S. Lewis Remains Compelling This week marks the anniversary of both the birth (Nov. 29) and the death (Nov. 22) of C.S. Lewis, one of the most remarkable Christians of the last century. Even today, nearly 60 years after his passing, Christians of all... Nov 22, 2022

  Why C.S. Lewis Remains Compelling
• Benefits of Gratitude In light of today’s theme, the biblical exhortation to give thanks becomes even more compelling. In Psalm 100 we find seven such imperatives in the Hebrew, seven commands related to gratitude. Nov 22, 2022

  Benefits of Gratitude
• Inoculate, Don’t Indoctrinate (and then Trust God with the Results) Because the most dangerous ideas in this cultural moment target our kids’ identities, parents must work toward kids’ identity formation as much as intellectual or behavioral formation. Nov 21, 2022

  Inoculate, Don’t Indoctrinate (and then Trust God with the Results)
• Giving Thanks Even in the Midst of Tragedy Even in the midst of tragedy, the writer of Lamentations could pray, “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life” (Lamentations 3:58). And one day “death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor... Nov 21, 2022

  Giving Thanks Even in the Midst of Tragedy