Opinion

• The Latest on the Uvalde School Shooting: 'We Are Bound By a Covenant of Human Solidarity' Every child and adult murdered yesterday was made in the image of God and loved unconditionally by him. Every victim is being mourned today by loved ones whose lives will never be the same. In response to such unfathomable loss... May 25, 2022

  

  The Latest on the Uvalde School Shooting: 'We Are Bound By a Covenant of Human Solidarity'
• Bringing Sin to Light Is Not a Distraction from the Church's Mission Let us put this simply – when there is rampant sin in the Lord's house, it is not a distraction from the church's mission to deal with it. Sin hinders the mission. Women and children suffering sexual abuse at the hands of the... May 24, 2022

  

  Bringing Sin to Light Is Not a Distraction from the Church's Mission
• SI's Swimsuit Edition Isn't Empowering Pornography and sexually suggestive material of any kind objectifies women, training consumers that female bodies are things to be leered at, to be lusted after, rather than persons to be loved and valued. May 24, 2022

  

  SI's Swimsuit Edition Isn't Empowering
• Fallen People Need the Work of the Holy Spirit to Be Made Holy People The path to a more holistic holiness is not simply trying harder to do better. On the contrary, fallen people need the work of the Holy Spirit to be made holy people. Our job is to submit every dimension of our lives to... May 24, 2022

  Fallen People Need the Work of the Holy Spirit to Be Made Holy People
• People Are More Than Most Popular Ideologies Can Explain People are more than most popular ideologies can explain. This is why Communist and Fascist dictatorships end up looking like each other over time. As my colleague Tim Padgett put it recently, “Sometimes worldviews simply give... May 23, 2022

  People Are More Than Most Popular Ideologies Can Explain
• 'This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse' Denison Ministries is nondenominational and thus not related to the Southern Baptist Convention. In addition, many of you are not Southern Baptists. As a result, I will not focus this morning on the specific findings of the... May 23, 2022

  'This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse'
• Better Rules for Sex? It’s time to admit that the idea that consent could adequately govern human sexuality has failed. Consent may be the barest of moral necessities, but it cannot govern something as powerful as sex, especially when sex has been... May 20, 2022

  Better Rules for Sex?
• How Should Christians Respond to the Escalating Normalization of Immorality in Our Society? Our culture is normalizing immorality on a level unprecedented in American history. As a result, followers of Jesus need to become cultural missionaries on a level of transformative urgency and significance. But we must... May 20, 2022

  How Should Christians Respond to the Escalating Normalization of Immorality in Our Society?
• Let Dead Terrorist Groups Lie There have been recent reports that the Biden administration is planning to remove five groups from the U.S.' foreign terrorist blacklist. Each of these groups is now considered defunct. But it's strange that if they are... May 19, 2022

  Let Dead Terrorist Groups Lie
• Should Russian Art Get Cancelled? According to Simon Morrison in a recent The Washington Post article, Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has prompted a huge global push to disavow all things Russian. And while some of these measures are certainly warranted,... May 19, 2022

  Should Russian Art Get Cancelled?