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September 2015

September 17, 2015

Russell Moore on Evangelicals and Donald Trump

The strongest word yet on evangelicals and Donald Trump comes from Russell Moore this morning...

August 2015

August 18, 2015

A Conversation With TobyMac

It's an unfortunate reality of Christian music that most of its truly talented artists either...

August 15, 2015

Tinder Mercies–Or, How Porn Destroyed Sex

You've probably already seen the Vanity Fair piece on how the dating/hookup app Tinder is...

August 09, 2015

Keep Teenagers Weird

Last summer, Jan Hoffman wrote a piece for The New York Times on the disparity...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

What Cecil the Lion and Planned Parenthood Taught Me About #AllLivesMatter

For myself and many of my fellow pro-lifers, the last few days have been a...

July 24, 2015

What Abortion Does to Us

Charles Krauthammer explains why the Planned Parenthood expose videos will have effects on the public:...

July 21, 2015

The Mythological Moralities of Planned Parenthood and Caitlyn Jenner

What does the organ harvesting ugliness of Planned Parenthood have to do with the spectacle...

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 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...

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 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 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....

April 2015

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 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 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 15, 2015

Christians and College Debt

I've found myself thinking about one particular classmate from my undergraduate years. We entered around...

March 10, 2015

Why the Caged Birdman Sings

Henry David Thoreau once said, "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." He...

March 06, 2015

In Addiction, But Not Of It

Los Angeles Angels slugger Josh Hamilton is in the news again after the former American...

March 02, 2015

4 Responses a Non-Scientist Christian Can Give to Science-Based Atheism

Lack of scientific knowledge can leave Christians feeling vulnerable when talking to unbelieving friends about...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

The Ugly Legalism of Sports Worship

Do I worship sports? I hope not. I don't think I do, but I'll admit...

February 23, 2015

Scott Walker Doesn’t Know if Obama Is a Christian (And Neither Do I)

Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Scott Walker says he doesn't know if President Obama is...

February 20, 2015

How Addiction Votes

Carl Trueman has written several fine pieces lately on both the nature of and antidote to our...

February 19, 2015

Surrendering Earth to Thugs: How Atheism Empowers ISIS

By now many of you have surely either read or seen mentioned Graeme Wood's cover...

February 19, 2015

How to Watch TV Like a Christian

Last week I wrote a review for The Gospel Coalition of a helpful new book...