Opinion

• CRISPR and Faux Outrage: So Long as You Kill Them Last autumn, a Chinese scientist named Dr. He ignited a rhetorical firestorm when he announced he’d used the technology CRISPR to genetically alter human embryos, which were implanted and brought to birth. Feb 11, 2019

  

  CRISPR and Faux Outrage: So Long as You Kill Them
• 700 Victims of Southern Baptist Sexual Abuse This story in yesterday’s Houston Chronicle pains me deeply: “20 years, 700 victims: Southern Baptist sexual abuse spreads as leaders resist reforms.” Reporters at the Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News began an... Feb 11, 2019

  

  700 Victims of Southern Baptist Sexual Abuse
• Summit Ministries: Two Weeks that Last a Lifetime Millennials have a pretty bad reputation these days. Some of it’s undeserved, of course, but there are also plenty of stories of perpetual adolescence, entitlement, and refusing to take on the responsibilities of adulthood. Feb 08, 2019

  

  Summit Ministries: Two Weeks that Last a Lifetime
• What Do Racism, Sexual Abuse and Abortion Have in Common? Virginia continues to deal with scandals engulfing its top three leaders. Gov. Ralph Northam is facing renewed calls to resign today over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook. Attorney General Mark Herring has... Feb 08, 2019

  What Do Racism, Sexual Abuse and Abortion Have in Common?
• Dragging the Kids into it: The Sexualization of Children Has Begun In the whole run-up surrounding the push for same-sex marriage and LGBT “rights,” some predicted that the normalization of homosexuality would open the door to other deviant practices. Usually at the top of the list of things... Feb 07, 2019

  Dragging the Kids into it: The Sexualization of Children Has Begun
• How Much Does Donald Trump’s Childhood Home Cost? Here’s the most objective story about Donald Trump I could find in today’s news: his childhood home in Queens, New York, is on the market. For $2.9 million, you can purchase the house where Mr. Trump lived until he was four... Feb 07, 2019

  How Much Does Donald Trump’s Childhood Home Cost?
• We the Born: Liberalized Abortion Laws Are Taking Aim at Our Posterity The settlers and the founders of this country spoke a lot about their posterity – the generations that would follow them. For example, the Constitution begins, “We the People of the United States, in Order to…secure the... Feb 06, 2019

  We the Born: Liberalized Abortion Laws Are Taking Aim at Our Posterity
• Ideas Alone Don’t Change the Culture: Colson Fellows 2019 The world as we know it is made up of a lot of things, not least of which are ideas. You hear us talk about ideas all the time on BreakPoint, especially those underlying worldview ideas that have enormous cultural consequences.... Feb 06, 2019

  Ideas Alone Don’t Change the Culture: Colson Fellows 2019
• The ‘State of the Union’ is Divided: How Should Christians Respond? President Trump delivered the 2019 State of the Union address last night before a joint session of the 116th Congress. I watched the address, then surveyed coverage of it this morning. It is as if there were two different... Feb 06, 2019

  The ‘State of the Union’ is Divided: How Should Christians Respond?
• Bible Reading in Public Schools Has Been a Divisive Issue – and Could Be Again Officials in six states, including populous ones such as Virginia and Florida, are considering bills permitting the study of the Bible in classrooms. Proponents of these bills insist that the Bible would be treated as a... Feb 05, 2019

  Bible Reading in Public Schools Has Been a Divisive Issue – and Could Be Again