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July 2015

July 10, 2015

Weekend Roundup 7/10

"Dismantling the Facade of Authentic Vulnerability ," Chris Martin I went to a small Christian liberal...

July 08, 2015

Can Public Schools Define “Family”? (Spoiler: They Already Do)

Will Saletan, a writer for Slate, posted this to Twitter this afternoon. Just so...

July 07, 2015

The Myth of “Adult Entertainment”

Let’s contemplate one of the most widespread and most unfortunate phrases of recent times: The...

July 06, 2015

What I’m Reading

The Soul of the World, Roger Scruton A friend and former professor introduced me to philosopher...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

A Culture War Worth Finishing

The phrase "culture war" is a little bit like the word "abortion." Both terms exist...

June 27, 2015

Same-Sex Marriage: 7 Questions for the Victors

It was to very few's surprise that the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday to...

June 23, 2015

In Defense of the “Billy Graham Rule”

One of the highest privileges of being a pastor's kid is seeing, over the course...

June 19, 2015

Why Flying the Confederate Flag Isn’t a Conservative Thing to Do

The horrific and terroristic murder of 9 black Americans in Charlestown, South Carolina, while they...

June 19, 2015

Where Did All the Christian Music Go?

Recently at First Things, Matthew Block pondered the remarkable decline, both in market share and...

June 13, 2015

New Wife, New Life

My extended absence from the blog has come to an end. Emily and I arrived...

May 2015

May 23, 2015

The One Ring and Pornography

One moment during the lowest point of their journey, when all seems lost in the...

May 22, 2015

Weekend Roundup [5/22]

1) Why Britain Should Leave the EU—Pascal Gobry, The Week We often like to define...

May 15, 2015

The Falling and Rising of American Christianity

Is Christianity fading in America? Are atheism and religious disaffiliation soaring? What does this mean for...

May 15, 2015

Weekend Roundup [5/15]

Introducing the Weekend Roundup, a new weekly feature of links and interesting finds from around...

May 14, 2015

Why Your Kid Doesn’t Need Twitter

When you think of the things children need to succeed later in society, you probably think...

May 13, 2015

Don’t Call C.S. Lewis an “Evolutionist”

Douglas Wilson has some helpful perspective on C.S. Lewis's beliefs on human origin. While it's...

May 09, 2015

What does “She shall be saved through childbearing” mean?

One of the most perplexing passages in the entire Bible is one that may come...

May 07, 2015

The Future of Christian Music

As I write, I've just returned from a delightful evening with Emily at a local concert....

May 02, 2015

How Millennials Can Be Happy Again

It was the pastor Martyn Lloyd Jones who said, "Have you realized that most of...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

#PrayForMarriage

I invite you to join many Christians around the nation in praying today as the...

April 26, 2015

The New Puritan Shame Culture

In the April 1886 issue of The Atlantic Monthly Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel, reviewed his father’s The Scarlett...

April 23, 2015

Should Christians Watch “Game of Thrones”?

Christians have debated amongst themselves for thousands of years how to approach entertainment and secular...

April 14, 2015

A Conversation Between “Safe,” “Legal,” and “Rare”

The following is an edited version of the transcript of conversation between abortion talking points...

April 09, 2015

What’s a Conscience Worth?

Consider this a brief, concluding postscript to my 4-article (!) conversation about religious freedom and the RFRA....

April 07, 2015

How RFRA Helps Us Love Our Neighbors

In the sincere hope, dear reader, that soon we may speak of other things, let me...

April 04, 2015

Do Christians Mean What They Say? A response to Frank Bruni

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni doesn't believe that Christians who are opposed to same-sex...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Who Are the Liberals?

If there's anything in store for American political discourse more absurd or uninformed than the...

March 25, 2015

How and Why to Watch the ERLC Summit on Racial Reconciliation

The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) will be hosting a two-day summit on "The...

March 23, 2015

Loneliness and the Religion of Personal Autonomy

Is it even possible that my generation, which sends 6 billion text messages per day...

March 19, 2015

This Is Your Brain on Hot Takes

Fare Forward has published this outstanding piece by Jake Meador on how the current state of...

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