John Stonestreet & Roberto Rivera

• The Dangerous 'Science' behind Gender Transitioning
  A new wave of studies in recent years paints a rosy picture about the benefits of medical transitions for people with gender dysphoria. So much so that, as Paul Dirks recently wrote at Public...
  Friday, September 3, 2021
• Is China's Next Leap Forced Procreation?
  Recently, China announced a revision to its infamous one-child policy, instituted by Mao’s successor. Married couples can now apply to have up to three children, an increase from the more recent...
  Tuesday, June 29, 2021
• The Blessing of Rest
  If you doubt the importance of Sabbath, just run a quick Google search for terms like “exhaustion” or “burnout” or the various mental disorders that accompany the habits of our society. This is...
  Friday, June 25, 2021
• A Narrow SCOTUS Ruling with Serious Implications for Religious Liberty
  The U.S. Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated ruling in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia on Thursday. In a 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Catholic Social Services could not be...
  Monday, June 21, 2021
• Deconversion, Deconstruction, and Repentance
  In a somewhat recent innovation, many have embraced "deconstruction", or deconversion. In and of itself, to self-examine faith is a good thing. The eleventh-century Christian philosopher Anselm of...
  Wednesday, June 9, 2021
• Can Anything Good Happen on TikTok?: Christian Influencers and the Gospel Message
  TikTok, a short form video social media platform, has become a home for Christian evangelism and discipleship. But sharing the Gospel online cannot replace sharing it in real life. The key lesson...
  Tuesday, May 25, 2021
• Evolution Evangelists Skirt Evidence, Commemorate Darwin's Descent of Man
  When asked how we can know that the current evolutionary narrative is true, scientist explainers quickly point to the fossil record and our nearest animal relatives, the great apes. However, as a...
  Monday, May 17, 2021
• Organ Shopping Is Big Business
  The number of people worldwide seeking organs for transplant significantly outpaces the number of organs available. This has created a morbid lesson about “supply and demand" and has resulted in a...
  Monday, May 10, 2021
• Evangelicals & Casual Sex
  According to a Pew Research Center survey, less than half of evangelicals surveyed were willing to say that casual sex is never acceptable. Seventeen percent said that casual sex was “rarely”...
  Wednesday, May 5, 2021
• Will Medical Professionals Be Forced to Perform Transgender Surgeries?
  Earlier this month, the Biden administration filed an appeal in a case that could force “religious doctors and hospitals to perform potentially harmful gender-transition procedures against their...
  Monday, April 26, 2021
• A Victim of Bad Ideas Is Frozen out of Fertility
  Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have victims. Seven years ago, Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story told of a woman in her late 30s, single and successful in her career, who spent $19,000 to...
  Friday, April 23, 2021
• Planned Parenthood's Reckoning with Margaret Sanger's Racism Doesn't Go Far Enough
  Planned Parenthood is the most obvious example there is of systemic racism, a concept many people reject out of hand but shouldn’t.break
  Thursday, April 22, 2021
• What's Behind Declining Sperm Counts and Fertility?
  According to a new book by Shanna Swan, an epidemiologist at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, between 1973 and 2011 sperm counts in Western males dropped by 59 percent. In the ten years since then,...
  Wednesday, April 14, 2021
• Did Jesus Really Exist?
  Each year as Easter approaches, pseudo-scholars, newspapers, and cable networks make headlines claiming to offer the real story about Jesus. Their accounts assume that much of the Jesus story...
  Wednesday, March 24, 2021
• Betting on March Madness: The Problem with Young Men
  The legalization and growth of online gambling has coincided with the legalization of recreational marijuana. This is no coincidence. After all, laws are mostly downstream from the larger culture,...
  Tuesday, March 23, 2021
• Ending Organ Transplant Discrimination Against Those with Disabilities
  Today, 16 states ban the discrimination of people with intellectual disabilities, with similar measures pending in eight other states and in Congress. Still, these laws face an uphill battle, even...
  Wednesday, March 17, 2021
• 'Peace and Security' for the Ancient Church in Iraq?
  After Pope Francis recently visited Iraq, it became clear by some of the media coverage just how little the press “gets religion." Still, this visit was full of meetings that mattered, such as the...
  Monday, March 15, 2021
• The COVID Baby Bust Reflects a Disturbing Cultural Reality
  At the start of the pandemic, many expected the lockdowns and quarantines to lead to a “baby boom.” Well, the data is in. Instead of a “boom” it’s been a “bust.” As CBS recently reported, records...
  Thursday, March 11, 2021