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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...

January 2020

January 15, 2020

Screwtape Loves Your Imaginary Community

Contrary to some Christian pundits since the days of the Moral Majority, cultures seldom give up on having moral values....

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...

November 07, 2019

5 Reflections on Turning 30

I’m actually 31. This column is adapted from a Facebook post one year ago. It...

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...

June 2019

June 18, 2019

What Do You Want? (Why We Just Can’t Kiss Purity Culture Goodbye)

There's a scene in the 2004 adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel, "The Notebook" in which...

December 2018

December 12, 2018

The Misguided Backlash Against ‘Purity Culture’

I never tire of citing one of C. S. Lewis’ most insightful passages in “The...

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...

June 2018

June 05, 2018

Miss America Swimsuits Separate Traditionalist Men from Right-Wing Boys

The Miss America pageant (which will no longer be called a "pageant," but a "contest")...

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.

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 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...

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 26, 2017

A Reply to Rod Dreher on Worldview

Writing at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher raises some concerns with evangelical use of the...

June 12, 2017

Stop Calling Charity ‘Giving Back’

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