Opinion

• Life on Mars and ‘Hornlike Spikes’: Why Americans Trust Science over Religion Is there life on Mars? NASA’s Curiosity rover found what the New York Times calls “startlingly high amounts of methane in the Martian air” last week. As the Times explains, this type of gas on Earth is “usually produced by... Jun 25, 2019

  

  Life on Mars and ‘Hornlike Spikes’: Why Americans Trust Science over Religion
• When Inmates Meet Jesus: What Christians Need to Know about Prison Ministry I will never forget scanning that prison room where our weekly Bible study was being held to see not one, not some, but every single woman holding a hand up in the air. Jun 24, 2019

  

  When Inmates Meet Jesus: What Christians Need to Know about Prison Ministry
• Climate-Change Millerites: Why Save for the Future If There Is No Future? Back on October 22, 1844, tens of thousands of Americans who followed a preacher named William Miller, eagerly awaited the Second Coming of Christ. By “await,” I don’t mean that they had a general hope or belief, as in, “He... Jun 24, 2019

  

  Climate-Change Millerites: Why Save for the Future If There Is No Future?
• The Conflict with Iran: How We Got Here and What Could Come Next Nik and Lijana Wallenda safely crossed Times Square last night on a high wire twenty-five stories above the pavement. Their feat feels like a parable for escalating tensions in the Middle East. Jun 24, 2019

  The Conflict with Iran: How We Got Here and What Could Come Next
• The Opioid Dilemma Opioid addiction kills most of the 70,000 Americans who die each year of drug overdose. That number is staggering and exceeds the number of Americans killed during the entirety of the Vietnam War. Jun 21, 2019

  The Opioid Dilemma
• A Dinosaur Named Sue: Gender Politics Devours Science Every Johnny Cash fan remembers that song, “A Boy Named Sue,” about a young man’s quest to find his dead-beat dad and punch his lights out for giving him a girl’s name. Well, in a completely unrelated factoid, “Sue” is also the... Jun 21, 2019

  A Dinosaur Named Sue: Gender Politics Devours Science
• Supreme Court Rules on War Memorial Cross: Good News and Bad News The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a forty-foot World War I memorial cross can stay on public land. The concrete cross is located in the middle of a busy median strip and across from a pawnshop in Bladensburg, Maryland. It... Jun 21, 2019

  Supreme Court Rules on War Memorial Cross: Good News and Bad News
• Why Christians Must Support Religious Freedom for Everyone The fundamental human right of religious freedom is under attack around the globe today like never before. While this disturbing trend should concern everyone, it should be particularly alarming for Christians, because a... Jun 20, 2019

  Why Christians Must Support Religious Freedom for Everyone
• What Is This Love Affair with Socialism? “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it,” said Santayana. Many young people today claim to prefer socialism – and in some cases, even communism (which is socialism’s more violent form) – over capitalism. Jun 20, 2019

  What Is This Love Affair with Socialism?
• The Vatican Responds to Gender Theory: ‘Male and Female He Created Them’ For years, LGBTQIA activists and advocates have proclaimed that their view of human sexuality and Gender Theory is historically inevitable, and that any and all who resist will be swept into the dustbin of history along with... Jun 20, 2019

  The Vatican Responds to Gender Theory: ‘Male and Female He Created Them’