Opinion

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  The Danger of Performative Truth “We have become a nation that is more focused on the right to kill than the right to live.” This is how California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas, as he criticized... Jim Denison May 10, 2023
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  The Great Book Ban Panic of 2023 Three months ago, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Maine read a passage from a book to his local school board. It described a sexual encounter between two teenage boys. When he found the book in the library... John Stonestreet and Maria Baer May 10, 2023
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  Solzhenitsyn's Graduation Speech Revisited Though few college commencement speakers these days dare to defy conventional wisdom or the secularism that undergirds it, on June 8, 1978, Solzhenitsyn’s stunning address not only made those assembled there... John Stonestreet May 09, 2023
• What If We Allowed God to Define Our Life Mission? Warren Buffett is chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns dozens of companies. He has been extremely benevolent over the years, donating hundreds of millions of dollars to charitable causes.... Jim Denison May 09, 2023
• Why Avoiding Suffering at All Cost Undermines Compassion and Medicine Is pain good or bad?This was the question asked recently by physician and author Matthew Loftus in an essay entitled “Arcs of Life” published in The New Atlantis. Loftus makes the case that the contemporary... John Stonestreet and Kasey Leander May 08, 2023
• Finding Grace in the Midst of Unspeakable Grief In a brilliant new essay for the Atlantic, columnist David Brooks identifies two ways of approaching life: autonomy-based and gift based.Autonomy-based living is the basis for elective abortion, the sexual... Jim Denison May 08, 2023
• The Historic Connection Between Sierra Leone and William Wilberforce The 2023 Wilberforce Award recipient is Shodankeh Johnson, a pastor and church planter in Sierra Leone. The award was named after William Wilberforce, whose work as an English politician led to the... John Stonestreet and Glenn Sunshine May 05, 2023
• Texas Senate Passes Bill Requiring the Ten Commandments in Public School Classrooms “We think there can be a restoration of faith in America, and we think getting [the] Ten Commandments on these walls is a great way to do that. … We think we can really set a trend for the rest of the... Ryan Denison May 05, 2023
• How to See God More in Your Daily Life Since the creation of the world, we were designed for complete, total, uninhibited intimacy with God. The kind of intimacy that is described in Psalm 17:8: “Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the... Kelly-Jayne McGlynn May 04, 2023
• 'Technoshamanism': Why a Post-Christian Future Is Still Religious In the history of the world, the wholesale rejections of the supernatural is a quirk of Western secularism. At the same time, it will not ultimately survive the human longing for transcendence and communion... John Stonestreet & Shane Morris May 04, 2023
• Christianity Cannot Be Moderately Important in Our Lives While it costs us nothing to pray today to Christ our Savior, it costs us everything to coronate him our King. C. S. Lewis observed, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite... Jim Denison May 04, 2023
• Are the End Times Finally Here? Are we living in the end times? The immediate answer is, “Yes, of course we are.” Technically, we have been living in the end times ever since the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Dr. James Emery White May 04, 2023