Maria Baer & John Stonestreet

• Erasing Women
  For years, movies, advertisements, and fashion designers featured tall, incredibly thin, and often photoshopped women in their productions. These unrealistic depictions of femininity are harmful to...
  Monday, December 20, 2021
• The Problem with Mark Zuckerberg's 'Metaverse'
  A few weeks ago, the billionaire founder of Facebook announced the company’s new venture, “Meta.” The idea is to create a world of simulations in which people can, broadly, live their lives....
  Thursday, November 11, 2021
• Kids Are Given to Parents, Not the State
  When a culture loses its grip on those foundations, the “experts” (or, as C.S. Lewis called them “conditioners”) step in. They loudly suggest that a college degree in education and a place on the...
  Friday, November 5, 2021
• Sports Gambling Is a Bad Bet
  Today is what some call “the professional sports equinox,” the one night of the year where the NBA, NHL, MLB, and the NFL all have games. For sports fans, it’s like Christmas, Easter, Labor Day,...
  Thursday, October 21, 2021
• Abortion Is Not Necessary for Female Athletes to Succeed
  More than 500 female athletes signed an Amicus brief last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against a Mississippi law that bans abortions after about 15 weeks of pregnancy.
  Monday, September 27, 2021
• You Are What You Binge
  Pediatricians are growing increasingly concerned about an explosion in facial and vocal tics in teenagers, especially teenage girls. Doctors say that neurological scans of teenage girls with what...
  Thursday, September 23, 2021
• Why People Are Leaving Churches
  Long gone are the days when believers automatically joined the church down the street. Even denominational loyalties, theological convictions, and worship styles are not as important as they used...
  Tuesday, September 21, 2021
• Our Way with Words
  Without God, there is no meaning, not in language, or art, or in reality itself. Christians, because our worldview begins not only with God but with a God who communicates, are far more in the...
  Thursday, September 16, 2021
• Culture Shifts in Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
  For the Christian, there are immovable Biblical principles that should mark and form the structures of our lives. These should not be moved, edited, or altered by cultural shifts.
  Thursday, August 26, 2021
• What's 'Good Art,' Anyway?
  Sometimes Christians think of “culture” as all the “bad” stuff “out there.” But culture is simply what humans do with the world. When God told Adam and Eve to fill the Earth and subdue it, He was...
  Wednesday, August 11, 2021
• The God Committee and Our Call to Play God
  Our culture often makes the mistake of asking if we can do something before asking if we should and then determining that if we can do something, that’s all the reason we need to know that we...
  Thursday, July 22, 2021
• Is God Really on the Throne during Revolutions and Collapsed Buildings?
  Some things in this world are really bad, other things are really good. Ruling over it all, still on His throne, Christ is renewing our hearts and minds to make His glory our greatest pleasure and...
  Friday, July 16, 2021
• What the Church Gave Alcoholics Anonymous and What it Should Offer Again
  Unconditional intimacy is the natural outgrowth of groups whose members don’t have to be convinced they’re unlovable sometimes, or often. When people walk into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, they...
  Thursday, July 15, 2021
• Your Body, Whose Choice?
  The very concept of “bodily autonomy” was originally a Christian contribution to an often cruel and barbaric world. Far from suggesting that our bodies are mere heaps of matter for us to do with...
  Thursday, June 17, 2021
• Politics Makes a Lousy Worldview
  Our politics today is merely a show, a reality show that doesn’t give us the reality about us, or about the world. And let’s be honest, the show is getting embarrassing. On the other hand, the way...
  Thursday, June 10, 2021
• Kids, COVID-19, and Preparing for Storms
  While everyone was “flying blind” at the beginning of the pandemic, it is becoming more and more clear that, in the noble interest of protecting bodies, many public officials neglected to...
  Friday, June 4, 2021
• How to Stay When the World Says Leave
  The Church is not above our critique, of course, but too many who embrace the habit of criticizing her soon find themselves as no longer part of her. Make no mistake, the Church is Christ’s bride....
  Wednesday, May 12, 2021
• Leave Loud, Blaming Churches
  According to a new Gallup poll, the number of Americans who belong to a church, synagogue or mosque has fallen below 50 percent for the first time since 1937. Moreover, many of the people who have...
  Tuesday, May 11, 2021