Opinion

• How We Can Restore Faith in Our Representative Government Democrats and Republicans agree on very little these days ­– taxes, abortion, immigration, LGBT issues, or education. However, Democrats and Republicans are united in their assessment that our current system is not working. I... Feb 16, 2022

  

  How We Can Restore Faith in Our Representative Government
• Marry Early, but Don't Live Together First New data is poking holes in what’s become a prominent cultural myth. “When it comes to divorce,” write Brad Wilcox and Lyman Stone in The Wall Street Journal, “the research has generally backed up the belief that it’s best to... Feb 16, 2022

  

  Marry Early, but Don't Live Together First
• Christians Must Pray Fervently for Peace Clearly, what happens in Ukraine will not stay in Ukraine. Even if this were not the case, it would be imperative that Christians pray fervently for peace. Feb 16, 2022

  

  Christians Must Pray Fervently for Peace
• From Self-Flagellation to Celebration: How Healing from Spiritual Abuse Changed My View of Communion One of the most significant false teachings that sticks out to me from my time in a spiritually abusive environment was how communion was taught. Now that I know that communion is about celebration and not self-flagellation, I... Feb 15, 2022

  From Self-Flagellation to Celebration: How Healing from Spiritual Abuse Changed My View of Communion
• Join Colson Center and Focus on the Family for New Speaker Series Confusing the noise and chaos of the breaking news headlines with the Story of the world is one of the most common ways that Christians lose their way. As Christians called to this part of the story, it’s essential that we... Feb 15, 2022

  Join Colson Center and Focus on the Family for New Speaker Series
• Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tomorrow? Tomorrow, we’ll discuss what a Russian invasion of Ukraine could mean for the US and the West. For today, let’s focus on what it would mean for Ukraine. As one military analyst notes, “Depending on what Russia’s military... Feb 15, 2022

  Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tomorrow?
• Dating Apps or the Church What if the church has a role to play in creating contexts for relational connections, even romantic ones? What if the current relationship dearth being filled by apps could be filled by Christian matchmaking communities... Feb 14, 2022

  Dating Apps or the Church
• Success That Changes Everything We face two problems: the urge for more and our resistance to less. We need more success to stay as happy as we are at present, and we fear failure lest we lose even what we have now. Brooks cites the nineteenth-century... Feb 14, 2022

  Success That Changes Everything
• We Need to Depoliticize Prayer If prayer is to have the power to help us, it’s time that we depoliticize it and revitalize its purpose by returning to the idea of prayer as intentional, private thought. The use of prayer as a strategy to manipulate audiences... Feb 11, 2022

  We Need to Depoliticize Prayer
• A Gaian Interpretation of COVID and the World Gaia theory is growing among young Americans. Gaia ecosystem all have something in common: They’re user-generated. Unlike organized religion, Gaianism (the name for the spiritual version of Gaia Theory) can essentially conform... Feb 11, 2022

  A Gaian Interpretation of COVID and the World