Opinion

• Choosing Thanksgiving over Thanksfeeling Scripture calls us to “give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). We are to “give” thanks, not “feel” thanks. The holiday is Thanksgiving, not Thanksfeeling. Nov 23, 2020

  

  Choosing Thanksgiving over Thanksfeeling
• Live Not by Lies and the Danger of Soft Totalitarianism Throughout history, Christians have faced demands to be silent. Throughout history, they refused. In Live Not By Lies: a Manual for Christian Dissidents, blogger and author Rod Dreher thinks Christians in the West are entering... Nov 20, 2020

  

  Live Not by Lies and the Danger of Soft Totalitarianism
• A Minister on the Titanic and the Death of a Mentor Philosopher R. J. Snell notes that such tolerance has become highly intolerant in recent years. In fact, our culture has devolved to the point that it condemns any perspective which represses an individual’s instinctual... Nov 20, 2020

  

  A Minister on the Titanic and the Death of a Mentor
• Co-Parenting: Children as the Products of Contracts Instead of Love Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims. Disconnecting sex from childbearing gave us abortion and abandonment. Disconnecting childbearing from marriage gave us a generation of fatherless children. Nov 19, 2020

  Co-Parenting: Children as the Products of Contracts Instead of Love
• The Transformational Difference Between Happiness and Joy Happiness is far less the result of our circumstances than our response to them. Psychologists refer to the “hedonic treadmill” as “the observed tendency of humans to quickly return to a relatively stable level of happiness... Nov 19, 2020

  The Transformational Difference Between Happiness and Joy
• A Free Market Works Not Because Wealth Is Valued, But Because Labor Is. A free market works not because wealth is valued, but because labor is. Jesus said we can’t serve both God and money and that it’s more difficult for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God. Jesus never said accumulating wealth... Nov 18, 2020

  A Free Market Works Not Because Wealth Is Valued, But Because Labor Is.
• Finding the Courage to Stand for What We Believe In what could be the motto for our day, Hamlet claimed, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” We have been taught that “truth” is the result of our subjective interpretation of our subjective... Nov 18, 2020

  Finding the Courage to Stand for What We Believe
• Why Our Most Important Conversations Have to Begin with Who We Are One of the most helpful frameworks I know of in wrestling with moral issues comes from T.S. Eliot. Before we can know what to do with something, we must know what that something is for. Nov 17, 2020

  Why Our Most Important Conversations Have to Begin with Who We Are
• Supreme Court Justice Warns, 'Religious Liberty Is Fast Becoming a Disfavored Right' Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently stated during a keynote address to the Federalist Society that “For many today, religious liberty is not a cherished freedom. It’s often just an excuse for bigotry, and it can’t be... Nov 17, 2020

  Supreme Court Justice Warns, 'Religious Liberty Is Fast Becoming a Disfavored Right'
• Another COVID Surge, Same Question: Are We Prepared? With medical decisions becoming increasingly financially charged and the popularity of euthanasia continuing to rise, Christians everywhere should be thinking about medical ethics, joining hospital ethics boards, running for... Nov 16, 2020

  Another COVID Surge, Same Question: Are We Prepared?