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July 2015

July 10, 2015
"Dismantling the Facade of Authentic Vulnerability ," Chris Martin I went to a small Christian liberal...
July 08, 2015
Will Saletan, a writer for Slate, posted this to Twitter this afternoon. Just so...
July 07, 2015
Let’s contemplate one of the most widespread and most unfortunate phrases of recent times: The...
July 06, 2015
The Soul of the World, Roger Scruton A friend and former professor introduced me to philosopher...

June 2015

June 30, 2015
The phrase "culture war" is a little bit like the word "abortion." Both terms exist...
June 27, 2015
It was to very few's surprise that the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday to...
June 23, 2015
One of the highest privileges of being a pastor's kid is seeing, over the course...
June 19, 2015
The horrific and terroristic murder of 9 black Americans in Charlestown, South Carolina,  while they...
June 19, 2015
Recently at First Things, Matthew Block pondered the remarkable decline, both in market share and...
June 13, 2015
My extended absence from the blog has come to an end. Emily and I arrived...

May 2015

May 23, 2015
One moment during the lowest point of their journey, when all seems lost in the...
May 22, 2015
1) Why Britain Should Leave the EU—Pascal Gobry, The Week We often like to define...
May 15, 2015
Is Christianity fading in America? Are atheism and religious disaffiliation soaring? What does this mean for...
May 15, 2015
Introducing the Weekend Roundup, a new weekly feature of links and interesting finds from around...
May 14, 2015
When you think of the things children need to succeed later in society,  you probably think...
May 13, 2015
Douglas Wilson has some helpful perspective on C.S. Lewis's beliefs on human origin. While it's...
May 09, 2015
One of the most perplexing passages in the entire Bible is one that may come...
May 07, 2015
As I write, I've just returned from a delightful evening with Emily at a local concert....
May 02, 2015
It was the pastor Martyn Lloyd Jones who said, "Have you realized that most of...

April 2015

April 28, 2015
I invite you to join many Christians around the nation in praying today as the...
April 26, 2015
In the April 1886 issue of The Atlantic Monthly Julian Hawthorne, son of Nathaniel, reviewed his father’s The Scarlett...
April 23, 2015
Christians have debated amongst themselves for thousands of years how to approach entertainment and secular...
April 14, 2015
The following is an edited version of the transcript of conversation between abortion talking points...
April 09, 2015
Consider this a brief, concluding postscript to my 4-article (!) conversation about religious freedom and the RFRA....
April 07, 2015
In the sincere hope, dear reader, that soon we may speak of other things, let me...
April 04, 2015
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni doesn't believe that Christians who are opposed to same-sex...

March 2015

March 31, 2015
If there's anything in store for American political discourse more absurd or uninformed than the...
March 25, 2015
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) will be hosting a two-day summit on "The...
March 23, 2015
Is it even possible that my generation, which sends 6 billion text messages per day...
March 19, 2015
Fare Forward has published this outstanding piece by Jake Meador on how the current state of...
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