Opinion

• How to Respond to Those Who Reject Us We have been exploring this week the implications for Christians of our status as the “children of God.” Yesterday, we noted that if we are children of one Father, we are members of one family. We are called to love each other... Feb 10, 2022

  

  How to Respond to Those Who Reject Us
• What Tongan Christians Can Teach Us about Tsunamis and Faith Tongan believers approach Christian solidarity in a unique way... Feb 09, 2022

  

  What Tongan Christians Can Teach Us about Tsunamis and Faith
• Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Slippery Slope, It's a Moral Cliff We should consider the consequences for societies that leap into medical suicide with nothing but good intentions. Feb 09, 2022

  

  Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Slippery Slope, It's a Moral Cliff
• The World United to Pray to Save the Boy in the Well. Why Not Children Who Die in War? We despise the unjust death of children, but when children die in war we feel complicit in that injustice, either through our participation in harmful policies or silence about the consequences. Feb 08, 2022

  The World United to Pray to Save the Boy in the Well. Why Not Children Who Die in War?
• America Has a Trust Problem Public trust, specifically of the federal government, began to erode in the 1960s. The series of unfortunate events in the decades that followed—wars, Watergate, economic struggles, impeachments, ever-deepening political... Feb 08, 2022

  America Has a Trust Problem
• Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God In a culture that measures us by our appearance, possessions, performance, and popularity, it is terrifying to be known as we truly are. In Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?, psychologist John Powell writes of “the... Feb 08, 2022

  Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God
• How My Evangelical Church Taught Me Not to Trust Myself, and How I Am Healing from It One of the hallmark characteristics of someone who has been spiritually abused is that they do not trust themselves. This has been one of the deepest wounds for me to heal, but the one that has made me feel the most empowered... Feb 07, 2022

  How My Evangelical Church Taught Me Not to Trust Myself, and How I Am Healing from It
• Faithfully Different In an interview with Shane Morris on the Upstream podcast, Natasha Crain pointed to the recent results of the American Worldview Inventory, conducted by George Barna and Arizona Christian University. According to that survey,... Feb 07, 2022

  Faithfully Different
• Our Ultimate Value Is Not Ours to Determine Our ultimate value is not ours to determine, though we are tempted every day to live as though it is. We each want to be our own god (Genesis 3:5), kings of our own kingdom. But we are unable by ourselves to become what we most... Feb 07, 2022

  Our Ultimate Value Is Not Ours to Determine
• God Is No Luddite, and We Need Not Be Either God is no Luddite. We need not be one either. A truly Christian worldview celebrates the beauty of innovation, while maintaining healthy skepticism about any and all utopian promises. Feb 04, 2022

  God Is No Luddite, and We Need Not Be Either