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'Free to Believe': Why Religious Freedom Matters and What You Can Do to Defend it

There are reasons that religious freedom is the called the “first freedom.” Of course, it’s listed first in the Bill of Rights, but more...

'Free to Believe': Why Religious Freedom Matters and What You Can Do to Defend it

Robots in the Pulpit? An Ancient Heresy Takes a New Form

If someone described a preacher’s style to you as “robotic,” you probably wouldn’t consider it a compliment. For worshipers at one Buddhist temple...

Robots in the Pulpit? An Ancient Heresy Takes a New Form

When Bad Ideas Get Loose: Identity Politics and the Ivory Tower

So far, in each of the movies in the “Jurassic Park” franchise, the genetically-resurrected dinosaurs that terrorize tourists, lawyers, and...

When Bad Ideas Get Loose: Identity Politics and the Ivory Tower

How to Think About Impeachment: Timely Words from Chuck Colson

Even before he was sworn into office, President Trump’s political opponents were talking impeachment. Still, nothing so far – not pressure from...

How to Think About Impeachment: Timely Words from Chuck Colson

Time Magazine Denies Climate Change Deniers: Why 'Settled Science' Won’t Get Us Anywhere

On Friday, tens of thousands of students around the world staged a walk out, leaving their classes to demand action on climate change. Well, some...

Time Magazine Denies Climate Change Deniers: Why 'Settled Science' Won’t Get Us Anywhere

Practical Atheists: Living as if God Is Irrelevant

If a time-traveler from the Early Church secretly followed you from Monday till Saturday evening, would they be able to tell you’re a Christian?

Practical Atheists: Living as if God Is Irrelevant

The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims: When Will We Learn?

This story has everything … Reproductive technology? Check! Same-sex union? Check! Autism? Check! Lawsuits? Check! The assumption that a child...

The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims: When Will We Learn?

California, Have Our Consciences Been Seared?

Most might agree that California is slipping into an ocean of political correctness ... from forced vaccines and protection of criminals to the...

California, Have Our Consciences Been Seared?

When Suicide Is Legal and the Money Runs Out: An Evil and Unnecessary “Choice”

Six years ago, Sean Tagert of British Columbia was diagnosed with ALS, better known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.” At first, Tagert decided to live as...

When Suicide Is Legal and the Money Runs Out: An Evil and Unnecessary “Choice”

Brush & Nib v. City of Phoenix: Religious Freedom by the Stroke of a Pen

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court of Arizona issued an important decision in the Brush & Nib v. City of Phoenix court case, another case located...

Brush & Nib v. City of Phoenix: Religious Freedom by the Stroke of a Pen

Saving Pastors’ Lives: A Call to the Church to Help Those Struggling with Ideas of Suicide

One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from Abraham Kuyper and was repeated over and over by Chuck Colson: “There’s not a single square inch in...

Saving Pastors’ Lives: A Call to the Church to Help Those Struggling with Ideas of Suicide

5 Tips for Churches on How to Hold onto Millennials and GenZ

A former colleague got in touch this week to ask me a question I’ve heard often since my book The Next Mormons was published earlier this year. He...

5 Tips for Churches on How to Hold onto Millennials and GenZ

‘Carpe Diem Redeemed’: The Christian View of Time

One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from Abraham Kuyper and was repeated over and over by Chuck Colson: “There’s not a single square inch in...

‘Carpe Diem Redeemed’: The Christian View of Time

5 Things You Need to Know about Depression and Mental Illness

Many know all too well the debilitating effects of mental illness. We do a great disservice when we tell those struggling to “just get over it and...

5 Things You Need to Know about Depression and Mental Illness

The Problem with Millennials … We Might Not Like the Answer

The infamous “Millennials” are the generational cohort born between 1980 and 1997, and they may be most-overanalyzed demographic group in American...

The Problem with Millennials … We Might Not Like the Answer