John Stonestreet & Shane Morris

• Why Elon Musk and Other ‘Cultural Christians’ Are Rethinking Christianity
  As the influence of Christianity on the West reaches historic lows, a growing list of atheists and agnostics, some of whom have argued that Christianity is bad for the world, are backpedaling....
  Monday, August 5, 2024
• Is Public Opinion Shifting on Same-Sex Marriage?
  A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute found that support for same-sex “marriage” dropped by at least two points last year, and support for “gay rights” antidiscrimination policies...
  Wednesday, June 26, 2024
• Is Lab-Created Life in Conflict with God's Will?
  The idea that we can create, then screen out or indefinitely freeze or discard human individuals at the earliest stage of development in order to bring one, “perfect,” IVF-conceived child to...
  Tuesday, June 18, 2024
• 'Technoshamanism': Why a Post-Christian Future Is Still Religious
  In the history of the world, the wholesale rejections of the supernatural is a quirk of Western secularism. At the same time, it will not ultimately survive the human longing for transcendence and...
  Thursday, May 4, 2023
• Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Slippery Slope, It's a Moral Cliff
  We should consider the consequences for societies that leap into medical suicide with nothing but good intentions.
  Wednesday, February 9, 2022
• Faithfully Different
  In an interview with Shane Morris on the Upstream podcast, Natasha Crain pointed to the recent results of the American Worldview Inventory, conducted by George Barna and Arizona Christian...
  Monday, February 7, 2022
• A Conservatism without Marriage & Family Is No Conservatism at All
  Any political vision that treats marriage and family as optional or fungible, even if it goes by the label “conservative,” is destined to fail. This isn’t a matter of updating our definitions. If...
  Wednesday, January 26, 2022
• Passing on the Faith: What a Parent Does Plays an Essential Role in Their Child’s Spiritual Health
  How people within a cultural setting think about and practice spirituality is interrelated. Statistically, the most significant relationship, by far, for cultivating spiritual belief and commitment...
  Tuesday, January 25, 2022
• Prenatal Testing, False Positives, and Abortion
  Our society has become a real-life version of the movie, Gattaca, in which a “perfect” society is built, not by eliminating defects, but by eliminating people.
  Wednesday, January 19, 2022
• God (Still) Loves His World
  Understanding God’s posture to His created world was a central part of the thought and work of a 20th-century theologian whom every Christian should know. Herman Bavinck, who died a century ago,...
  Wednesday, January 12, 2022
• God Continues to Work Behind Bars
  God has a long history of working inside prisons. The very first book of the Bible describes how God granted Joseph favor with a prison warden, something that eventually led to the saving of his...
  Friday, January 7, 2022
• What are Miracles and How Can We Know?
  Recently, Dr. Moreland discussed his book A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ with Shane Morris for the Upstream Podcast....
  Tuesday, January 4, 2022
• Intelligent Design without God?
  For example, among the attempts to explain the Big Bang and account for our shockingly life-friendly cosmos were complicated ideas with fancy names such as vacuum fluctuation, cyclic contraction...
  Wednesday, December 15, 2021
• The Blurred Lines of the Sexual Revolution
  As the Wall Street Journal notes, quoting historian Tom Holland, “What’s happening with #MeToo is essentially an attempt to reimpose…Christian sexual morality.” Having witnessed the destruction of...
  Monday, November 22, 2021
• 'Luxury Beliefs' Are Status Symbols for Cultural Elites More than Blueprints for How to Live
  According to one Cambridge academic, permissive attitudes about sex, marriage, drugs, and religion are “luxury beliefs; more status symbols for cultural elites than blueprints for the way they...
  Monday, November 15, 2021
• The Abolition of Man is Humanity in the Trenches
  C.S. Lewis knew that without morality, human beings act less than human. Now more than ever, it’s a message we need to hear.
  Friday, October 22, 2021
• Meeting Christ in Aslan
  The appeal of The Chronicles comes back to a single character. Aslan, the Great Lion, who calls the children into Narnia, plays the central role in each adventure. It’s not exactly correct to call...
  Wednesday, October 20, 2021
• Gratitude Is Good for You …
  Practicing gratitude is extremely good for humans, even those who don’t believe in God. But for Christians, gratitude is no mere mental health strategy. It’s a profound way of telling the truth: to...
  Thursday, October 14, 2021