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March 2021

March 29, 2021

There Are No Egalitarians When the Dog Attacks

On my drive home from a men’s Bible study on Tuesday night, my five-year-old son...

March 29, 2021

A Goodbye to Grandma’s House

A house is an inanimate object, and as a terrifying number of people in the...

April 2020

April 13, 2020

In Praise of Moms-In-Quarantine

Our gym has closed during the coronavirus quarantine. That means more than me having to...

November 2019

November 25, 2019

Myopia Is the Most Powerful Contraceptive

I recently learned that there is a debate about the nature of drunkenness. The old...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

From Apology to Apostasy: Joshua Harris Joins His Critics

Joshua Harris, author of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” and inarguably the biggest name in so-called...

July 10, 2019

The Case Against the Internet

This piece was originally published at BreakPoint.org on August 22, 2016. Late last month, the...

May 2019

May 07, 2019

A Quiet, Piano-Playing Presbyterian Mass-Shooter

Here’s a truth Christian parents need to understand: In 2019, neither we, nor our churches,...

February 2019

February 11, 2019

Explaining Abortion to My Six-Year-Old Daughter

Last week my first-grade daughter, Astrid, heard me mention abortion in conversation with my wife...

December 2018

December 04, 2018

Is Santa Claus a Lie?

In the time-honored spirit of judging other parents, many Christians this time of year inform...

September 2018

September 24, 2018

If You Don’t Want Kids, Don’t Have Sex (or Get Married)

(This piece was originally published at BreakPoint.)A British National Health Service commuter ad is making...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

The Idolatry-of-Children Fire Brigade

Writing at Christ and Pop Culture, Allison Barron makes the case that Christian couples who...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Humanae Vitae’s Vital Insight for Evangelicals

It’s become the norm for married couples the age of my wife and I to...

February 2018

February 05, 2018

Don’t Blame Homeschooling For Child Abuse Cases Like The Turpins’

Homeschoolers: guilty until proven innocent.

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Hugh Hefner’s Legacy Is Remaking Women in Man’s Image

More than anything else, Hefner will be remembered for remaking women to be as much...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

No, ‘Game of Thrones’ Nudity Isn’t ‘Meat Sacrificed to Idols’

Ah yes, the excuses Christians come up with for watching "Game of Thrones."

August 10, 2017

On the Christian Bubble, and Being the Bad Guys

A recent episode of the Disney Channel cartoon show, "Doc McStuffins," which is aimed at...

July 2017

July 07, 2017

Why Are Atheists Steamrolling Our Students?

Christians have pretty uniformly adopted a subjective, experience-centric, and distinctly postmodern outlook on their faith.

June 2017

June 19, 2017

On Surrogacy, IVF, Evangelicals Are Dropping the Ball Again

Forty years ago, American evangelicals were defending or ignoring abortion. Today they're defending or ignoring...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

Purity Culture on Trial, Part 2: Love, Not License

Read part 1 here. Following my recent post on the victim culture that’s grown up...

May 10, 2017

Choosing Pets Over Kids Is A Psychiatric Disorder

If you grew up with dogs (as I did), you know that something bizarre and...

October 2016

October 24, 2016

Halloween and the Aesthetic of Evil

A while back, my friend Steven Wedgeworth wrote an outstanding essay over at The Calvinist...