Opinion

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  When America Remembered to Pray After Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during a nationally televised football game last week, slews of people began calling for prayers for his recovery. In one sense, this outpouring was not surprising.... Scott Slayton Jan 12, 2023
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  Our Universe and My Father's World: When Nature Documentaries Want to Thank Someone Our universe, even as Our Universe portrays it, compels worship, leaving us with the sense that we need to, as singer-songwriter Andrew Peterson put it, “thank someone.” Yet, in this series, created... John Stonestreet and Shane Morris Jan 12, 2023
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  Agape Love Should Be Our Goal Jesus advised us in the so-called Golden Rule, “Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them” (Matthew 7:12). He also taught us to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39, quoting... Jim Denison Jan 12, 2023
• Denmark Secretly Inserted IUDs in Greenland's Women for Decades According to the BBC, doctors in Greenland inserted contraceptive devices into several thousand local women without their knowledge or consent. This was not a once-off action by a few rogue doctors. Rather,... John Stonestreet and Timothy D Padgett Jan 11, 2023
• Pornography Dehumanizes Humans It is a tragic fact that our secularized postmodern culture has desacralized life from conception to death. It was once conventional wisdom that children in their mother’s womb were gifts from God to be... Jim Denison Jan 11, 2023
• Are the Moms All Right? Busting the Myths about Motherhood Last fall, cultural observer and former BuzzFeed writer Anne Helen Petersen published an e-book about the difficulties of motherhood during the pandemic. Based on interviews with 1,000 women, her conclusions... John Stonestreet and Heather Peterson Jan 10, 2023
• Democracy Requires the People to Be Worthy of the Power Entrusted to Them In other words, democracy (“the power of the people”) requires that the people be worthy of the power entrusted to them. But the “will to power,” the perennial temptation to “be like God” (Genesis 3:5), is... Jim Denison Jan 10, 2023
• Repenting of Elitism and Chronological Snobbery In a world in which everyone and everything is superficially connected online, where there are an estimated 30 billion more cameras than people, and where “influencer” is an actual job title, style is easily... John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander Jan 09, 2023
• The Latest on Damar Hamlin: Why I Agree with Religious Skeptics What are critics of religion thinking about this national response to the collapse of NFL player Damar Hamling? According to Swaim, “They will consider the whole pray-for-Damar episode a mass expression of... Jim Denison Jan 09, 2023
• Epiphany, an Overlooked but Important Day Today could be the most significant Christian holiday that Christians know about the least. Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas, was set aside in the Church calendar to remember the visitation of the Magi to... John Stonestreet Jan 06, 2023
• Two Years after the January 6 Capitol Riot, Do We Still Care? I’ll admit, my initial reaction when I realized that I would need to write about the second anniversary of the Capitol riots was somewhere between “not this again” and “I just don’t care.” That’s not to say... Ryan Denison Jan 06, 2023
• Triggering the Tingles: 'ASMR' Cannot Replace Human Presence Attempts to bypass the need for human presence and to receive pleasure at the press of a button may seem to work for a moment. They may even earn millions of YouTube subscribers. However, in the end, we will... John Stonestreet and Shane Morris Jan 05, 2023