Opinion

• The Problem with 'Do Something!': Where Our Hope Truly Lies Americans are afraid… perhaps more than at any time since 9/11. It’s understandable. Despite the fact that most of us are safer today than we think, the sheer evil that’s behind a mass shooting or a violent attack is put right... Aug 13, 2019

  

  The Problem with 'Do Something!': Where Our Hope Truly Lies
• Unprecedented Protests in Hong Kong and Moscow: How to Unleash the Power of True Community Hong Kong International Airport has canceled all remaining departing flights for the second day after thousands of pro-democracy protesters blocked the terminals. “Protesting in the airport is the best way to tell the world... Aug 13, 2019

  

  Unprecedented Protests in Hong Kong and Moscow: How to Unleash the Power of True Community
• Twitter Isn’t Real: Opting Out of Amplified Outrage Recently, a friend shared with me a statement on a personal issue that she wanted to post on social media. I urged her not to do it, partly because of my own experiences with social media, and partly because I’m convinced that... Aug 12, 2019

  

  Twitter Isn’t Real: Opting Out of Amplified Outrage
• A True American Hero Comes Home: The Power of Community “Dad has come home.” With these words, Roy Knight III described the remarkable funeral service held last Saturday for his father, Roy Knight Jr. Col. Knight’s homecoming made national headlines last week, and for good reason.... Aug 12, 2019

  A True American Hero Comes Home: The Power of Community
• Anti-Christian Attacks in Nigeria Threaten Precarious Balance of Faiths Over the weekend, Chidinma Ibeleji, a deaconess in the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria, was kidnapped along with four others on her way to her Pentecostal denomination’s annual convention in Lagos. Aug 09, 2019

  Anti-Christian Attacks in Nigeria Threaten Precarious Balance of Faiths
• Christian Missions Changes Direction: The Task of Reconverting the West In his book, “The Reason for God,” Tim Keller argues that Christianity is the only truly global religion. Indeed, within a few generations of Christ, the Christian faith had spread across much of the known world—from India to... Aug 09, 2019

  Christian Missions Changes Direction: The Task of Reconverting the West
• Danny Trejo Rescues Trapped Baby: The Power of Joy in Hard Times Actor Danny Trejo helped rescue a baby trapped in an overturned car in Los Angeles last Wednesday. Video shows him at the scene where two cars crashed. He says he crawled into the wrecked vehicle from one side but couldn’t... Aug 09, 2019

  Danny Trejo Rescues Trapped Baby: The Power of Joy in Hard Times
• Are 'Thoughts and Prayers' a 'Cruel Joke'? Like so many in our secular culture, Milbank seems to think that we must choose between “prayer” and “action,” that if we pray for victims, we are not acting on their behalf. Aug 08, 2019

  Are 'Thoughts and Prayers' a 'Cruel Joke'?
• Understanding Christians’ Climate Views Can Help Us Talk About the Environment In their second round of debates, Democratic presidential candidates called for aggressive measures to slow climate change. As Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has said, “We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate... Aug 07, 2019

  Understanding Christians’ Climate Views Can Help Us Talk About the Environment
• What We’re Missing About Mass-Shootings: Young Men Are in Crisis The state of our national discourse is, to put it mildly, discouraging and unhelpful, and the reaction to the recent shootings only amplified how bad it is. Once again, everyone took their place along partisan battle lines to... Aug 07, 2019

  What We’re Missing About Mass-Shootings: Young Men Are in Crisis