James Tonkowich

• Watching Football During Advent
  I’m not a sports fan, though if the NFL gave up the ghost tomorrow, I would feel sad for my son and other fans.
  Tuesday, December 10, 2013
• The ENDA Game
  The entire gay rights movement begins with the assertion that sexual orientation and gender identity are just like race.
  Wednesday, November 13, 2013
• Today's Speed Bumps to Evangelism
  Evangelism and worldview change require communication. We need to engage others with the truth of Christianity.
  Monday, October 21, 2013
• Some Kind of Weird Tyranny
  Western civilization, prosperity and legitimacy are built on the rule of law. That rule has never been perfect — the tyrant in each of us sees to that. But our strength lies in large measure in...
  Monday, August 5, 2013
• Marriage: I Don't Want to Argue About It
  There is no doubt about it. Those who believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman (conjugal marriage) have by far the best arguments. There is, however, a problem: No one is...
  Wednesday, July 24, 2013
• Freedom and Families
  Tomorrow is July 4th, Independence Day, the day we celebrate our American heritage of freedom as well we should. But over the past 237 years the meaning of freedom has morphed. We equate freedom...
  Wednesday, July 3, 2013
• Father's Day and the Future of Faith
  If the breakdown of the family is one of the causes of secularism and makes evangelization -- including the evangelization of our own kids -- increasingly difficult, this Sunday, Father's Day,...
  Friday, June 14, 2013
• Sin and the Distorted Image
  Disgusting, inhumane, vile, and any others of a host of possible adjectives could be used to describe all this, but let me suggest that the most apropos is "expected."
  Sunday, May 19, 2013
• The Death of Empathy
  The combination of single parents, absent parents, dual-income professional parents, daycare, after-care and easy, no-fault divorce have strained sometimes to the breaking point the relationship...
  Thursday, April 25, 2013
• Victorious Warriors in the 'Long Defeat'
  How much Christian engagement in politics over the past few decades has been with the presumption that we can’t possibly lose?
  Friday, April 19, 2013
• Hooking Up on Campus: The Job of Sex
  We need to communicate that the Christian understanding of sexuality and marriage is not an onerous, out-of-date burden, but the good news that the sexually exhausted and disillusioned men and...
  Friday, April 5, 2013
• There's More to Marriage Than Man and Wife
  We've walked into the trap. If procreation is not a part of the nature of marriage and thus required for those who are able to procreate, there is no good reason for denying marriage to same-sex...
  Friday, April 5, 2013
• Sequester: Be Very Afraid?
  Warning! Alert! Gloom, despair, and agony on all of us! The end of life as we know it! Not really, but that’s what they’d like you to think.
  Friday, March 1, 2013
• Fragmented Families and the Future of the Church
  While we can all cite examples of how their parents’ divorce turned some children to a strong and growing faith in Christ, that is far from the typical story. According to a new report, "when...
  Tuesday, February 5, 2013
• Why We Need a Little Advent
  The observance of Advent reminds us that regardless of what happens next, the King is coming.
  Wednesday, December 12, 2012
• The Fiscal Cliff: That's Trillion with a 'T'
  A big part of the difficulty in preventing a painful trip off the fiscal cliff is a fundamental misunderstanding of what "trillion" means.
  Monday, December 3, 2012
• Adultery, Unemployment and the Moral Law
  To find out how the Petraeus saga will end, stay tuned -- assuming you have the stomach for it. But this much is certain: as much as some try to suppress it with trendy relativism, the moral law...
  Wednesday, November 14, 2012
• Religious Liberty in the 'None' Generation
  Signs of eroding religious freedom in the United States are all over the place. And while many are battling to stop that erosion, I wonder how many Americans really care or would notice if their...
  Monday, October 15, 2012