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May 2020

May 14, 2020

Christians’ Complicated Relationship with Experts

Another week, another lengthy YouTube video alleging a coronavirus-related conspiracy reaching to the highest levels...

February 2020

February 04, 2020

Okay, Doomer

Two of my best friends and I have an informal liturgy: whenever we go camping,...

August 2019

August 22, 2019

A Misguided Meme

In the internet melee following the recent shootings in California, Texas, and Ohio, the predictable...

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,...

October 2018

October 03, 2018

Why the Kavanaugh Controversy Feels Different

The uproar following last week's testimony by Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh before the...

September 2018

September 14, 2018

Why I Can’t Sign the Social Justice Statement: Biblicism, Individualism, and Half a Great Commission

There is much to say about the recent Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel,...

May 2018

May 11, 2018

Jordan Peterson and the Return of Earnestness

The digital ink spilled over Canadian clinical psychologist and author Jordan Peterson by now could...

February 2018

February 19, 2018

Pro-Lifers: School Shootings Are Not a Segue to Talk about Abortion

A few weeks ago, I wrote about what I call the "abortion-juke," which is the...

February 05, 2018

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

Homeschoolers: guilty until proven innocent.

January 2018

January 13, 2018

Christians: Please Retire the Abortion-Juke

Not every conversation is about abortion.

December 2017

December 07, 2017

The Burning Fertility Clinic: Abortion’s New ‘Gotcha’ Argument

Have you seen this latest argument by pro-abortionists?

November 2017

November 27, 2017

From Bill Clinton to Roy Moore: How Character Stopped Counting for Evangelicals

It's obvious that the religious right of 2017, if transported back to 1997, could not...

November 15, 2017

Voting for Grishnákh: A Reductio-ad-Orc for ‘Lesser of Two Evils’ Logic

Is there a candidate, in a democratic system, for whom it would be inherently wrong...

November 07, 2017

Should Christians Carry Guns in Church?

Is it okay for Christians to bring weapons into church for self-defense?

October 2017

October 17, 2017

Some Slopes Really Are Slippery

Arguments deployed in support of each step in the sexual revolution often contain the premises...

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...

September 01, 2017

Millennials, It’s Time To Retire the ‘Why I Left the Church’ Genre

Originally published at BreakPoint.org. This article from Faithit is characteristic—almost to the point of satire—of the...

August 2017

August 16, 2017

Want to Fuel the Alt-Right? Tear Down More Statues

Left-wing vigilantism directed at a statue is exactly the kind of thing that fuels the...

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 10, 2017

Americans Think the World Is Way Worse Than It Actually Is

For the most part, Americans form their political opinions without the slightest reference to reality....

June 2017

June 12, 2017

Stop Calling Charity ‘Giving Back’

This has become the millennial way of saying "charity."

May 2017

May 25, 2017

How Should We Understand the Left?

The progressive project is pure utopianism. You won't understand anything or anyone on the left...

March 2017

March 29, 2017

People of the Internet: Stop Taking Everything Personally

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about what I call the "tyranny of exceptions."...

March 28, 2017

Keller and Kuyper – The Point

Maybe they should rename their award. Princeton Theological Seminary just reversed the decision to recognize Tim...

March 24, 2017

The Slippery Slope ̶F̶a̶l̶l̶a̶c̶y̶ Fact: How We Started Eating Each Other

Somewhere around 2014 midterms, the intemperate drives of the Left and Right both reached a...

March 22, 2017

Paper-Thin Propaganda – The Point

Who thought up this advertising campaign? Brawny paper towels has launched a new “Strength Has No...

March 20, 2017

National Geographic: ‘Stand Behind the Facts’ – The Point

Wait—stand with what, now? National Geographic is running an ad on Facebook featuring the caption,...

March 19, 2017

Conservatives: Beware Reverse-Chronological Snobbery

We've all seen it. A progressive and a conservative are crossing swords on some subject...

March 10, 2017

Against the Tyranny of Exceptions

These days, policing generalizations is the go-to move when you’ve got no other arguments. The...

March 03, 2017

Voldemort and Vestments – The Point

What’s with progressives and Harry Potter? Since the election of Donald Trump, many left-wing commentators...