BreakPoint Daily Commentary Archives

‘The Noblest and Most Precious Work’: Honoring and Encouraging Motherhood

On Mother’s Day, most of us take intentional time and effort to show our moms how much we love and appreciate them, and how much we’re thankful for...

‘The Noblest and Most Precious Work’: Honoring and Encouraging Motherhood

Trans Children and Parental Rights: How the Government Might Take Your Kids

Imagine if tomorrow, a judge in the most liberal state in the country announced children no longer belong to their parents, they’re no longer under...

Trans Children and Parental Rights: How the Government Might Take Your Kids

Disabilities, Identity, and Healing: Should We Even Want to Be Made Whole?

Nearly twenty years ago, Chuck Colson told BreakPoint listeners the story of Gauvin Hughes McCullough. His parents, Sharon and Candace, in addition...

Disabilities, Identity, and Healing: Should We Even Want to Be Made Whole?

The Manhattan Declaration 10 Years On: Never Render to Caesar What Is God’s

The year 2019 is the ten-year anniversary of a statement that drew the line for Christians on three central issues: life, marriage, and religious...

The Manhattan Declaration 10 Years On: Never Render to Caesar What Is God’s

Eros Isn’t Enough: We Need All Four Loves

In a recent opinion piece at Business Insider, Shana Lebowitz proclaimed, “Divorce isn’t a failure…In fact, it could mean your marriage was a...

Eros Isn’t Enough: We Need All Four Loves

Small Seal, Big Deal: Archaeology Confirms the Bible’s Details

No one names their son Jehoahaz. It’s just too tough to pronounce. On the other hand, most of us know a Josiah or two. Not only is it a much more...

Small Seal, Big Deal: Archaeology Confirms the Bible’s Details

Joaquin Phoenix and ‘The Gospel of Mary’: Gnostic Fiction Coming to a Theater Near You

Remember that 1980’s cough syrup commercial when Chris Robinson said, “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”? I wanted to paraphrase these...

Joaquin Phoenix and ‘The Gospel of Mary’: Gnostic Fiction Coming to a Theater Near You

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Planet?: The Religious Language of Climate Change

Philosopher John Gray started his 2007 book “Black Mass” with this declaration: “Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion.” Now,...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Planet?: The Religious Language of Climate Change

Healing, not Enhancing: Drawing Lines in Medical Ethics

In the 1976 made-for-television movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” a then-unknown John Travolta introduced Americans to a condition...

Healing, not Enhancing: Drawing Lines in Medical Ethics

Easter Worshippers and 'Non-Muslims'?: No, the Victims Were Christians

The death toll from the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka continued to climb all week. As of Thursday, the official count was 359 dead.

Easter Worshippers and 'Non-Muslims'?: No, the Victims Were Christians

Sacred Spaces Matter: Beauty Calls the World to God

As the Notre Dame cathedral burned, many mourned—some for the destruction of history and beauty and others because it was one of the world’s most...

Sacred Spaces Matter: Beauty Calls the World to God

Hard-Headed Historians and Soft-Headed Theologians: Without Resurrection, Our Faith Is in Vain

There’s a passage in N. T. Wright’s masterpiece, “The Resurrection of the Son of God,” in which he describes two kinds of people who refuse to even...

Hard-Headed Historians and Soft-Headed Theologians: Without Resurrection, Our Faith Is in Vain

Academic and Corporate Wokeness: The Real Threat to Religious Freedom

In February, the Yale Law School chapter of the Federalist Society invited Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom to speak on campus....

Academic and Corporate Wokeness: The Real Threat to Religious Freedom

The False God of Feelings: Mayor Buttigieg’s Pro-Gay Christianity

I’ve said before on BreakPoint that if your God never tells you to do anything you don’t want to do, your god is probably you. If there were an...

The False God of Feelings: Mayor Buttigieg’s Pro-Gay Christianity

Tomorrow Is Good Friday: Stop, Reflect, Pray

Tomorrow is Good Friday. Hundreds of millions of Christians around the world will observe the day Jesus was nailed to the cross to save us from our...

Tomorrow Is Good Friday: Stop, Reflect, Pray