Opinion

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  Setting the Facts Straight about Constantine On this day in A.D. 337, Emperor Constantine died. Many Christians think that Constantine was perhaps the worst thing to happen to the Church. They believe he made Christianity the imperial religion, thus... John Stonestreet and Glenn Sunshine May 22, 2023
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  How to Die Like Tim Keller If we embrace our suffering as an opportunity to trust Christ with our pain and serve others in theirs, “the salvific meaning of suffering” will be revealed to us. We will testify with Paul, “I have fought... Jim Denison May 22, 2023
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  Honey, We Shrunk the Church As Yonat Shimron led off her report: “For American religion, the story of decline just won’t let up.” She was referring to the recent findings in a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)... Dr. James Emery White May 22, 2023
• What Is Christian Nationalism Exactly? Advocates of Christian nationalism do often accurately describe the problems Western societies face: protecting the beauties of tradition and transcendence and the vital importance of allowing our faith to... John Stonestreet and Timothy D Padgett May 19, 2023
• We Can Never Fully Avoid the Consequences of a Wrong Decision From the moment the Dodgers chose to honor a group that so overtly dishonors core Christian principles and, more explicitly, the Catholic expression of those principles, they were headed down a difficult... Ryan Denison May 19, 2023
• Don’t Be Fooled: Charity Has Always Been Religious According to the state of Wisonsin, because Catholic Charities is engaged in purely charitable activities—giving to the poor, caring for the needy, and looking out for the downtrodden—they cannot claim a... John Stonestreet May 18, 2023
• What Happens When We Eat Forbidden Fruit? As we noted yesterday, God’s judgment against our sins is certain. But sins also bring their own consequences. The “just penalty” for them “always pursues” those who commit them.Infidelity destroys... Jim Denison May 18, 2023
• The SBC Loses Nearly Half a Million More Members I get absolutely no pleasure in relaying that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), America’s largest Protestant denomination, lost nearly half a million more people in 2022, adding to the three million... Dr. James Emery White May 18, 2023
• Girls and the Transgender 'Hockey Stick' In his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore famously showed an image that became an icon of global warming. The so-called “hockey stick” graph plotted global temperatures over the... John Stonestreet and Shane Morris May 17, 2023
• Only Jesus Christ Can Change the Human Heart Here’s the reason: only Jesus Christ can change the human heart so that “if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17).As a result, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who... Jim Denison May 17, 2023
• Is the Trend of Romanticizing Your Life a Healthy Christian Practice? “Romanticize your life” is a phrase you’ll see in the captions everywhere. The posts feature young women drinking luscious matcha lattes, putting on facemasks, lighting candles in their bedrooms, or... Kelly-Jayne McGlynn May 16, 2023
• New Index Tracks How Friendly Companies Are to Certain Views For years, JPMorgan Chase has had its thumb on the scale of the culture wars through an unfair practice called “de-banking.” By rejecting payment processes and closing accounts of politically... John Stonestreet and Heather Peterson May 16, 2023