Killing, Not Care – The Point

Last updated on: March 22, 2017 at 6:51 pm By G. Shane Morris

My day job is writing for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, the folks behind “BreakPoint.” We also do a daily radio minute called “The Point,” hosted by Colson Center president, John Stonestreet. I co-write these broadcasts, so my boss has asked me to share my favorites here as regular blog entries. Recently on BreakPoint we reported how investigators at Live Action called 97 Planned Parenthood locations to ask if they provided prenatal care. Almost none did. But Planned Parenthood... Read more

Doctors and Death in Colorado – The Point

Last updated on: February 13, 2017 at 2:17 pm By G. Shane Morris

My day job is writing for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, the folks behind “BreakPoint.” We also do a daily radio minute called “The Point,” hosted by Colson Center president, John Stonestreet. I co-write these broadcasts, so my boss has asked me to share my favorites here as regular blog entries. Three out of five of the hospitals in Boulder, Colorado won’t participate in the state’s new assisted suicide measure. For religious hospitals, this is a no-brainer. But many... Read more

Wispy, Octogenarian Baptist Grandmothers Are Manlier than I

Last updated on: February 8, 2017 at 4:42 pm By G. Shane Morris

I remember years ago thinking of “This Is My Father’s World” as a somewhat shallow and schmaltzy hymn that minimized the reality of our sin-cursed world. It was heavy on sentiment, light on theology, and beloved by white-haired, 80-year-old Baptist ladies. I guess I never listened beyond the first verse. Hearing Fernando Ortega’s rendition, it struck me for the first time how rich and manly, even martial, the words are: “This is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget. That though the wrong seems oft... Read more

Answering Pro-Abortion ‘Um, Actually’ Memes

Last updated on: February 2, 2017 at 7:50 pm By G. Shane Morris

I frequently see pictures like this floating around Facebook and Twitter. They’re part of what I like to call the “um, actually” genre of Internet debate which depends on a single, often pretentious rebuttal to an unsophisticated meme, passed around triumphantly without giving the meme’s creator a chance to respond in kind. As political discourse, they’re a rung or two below those times John Oliver “destroyed” Donald Drumpf. Their purpose is not to inform or make converts, but to reinforce... Read more

Sea World Is a Victim of Its Own Success, and So Is Christianity

Last updated on: October 4, 2019 at 1:56 pm By G. Shane Morris

(Originally published at BreakPoint.org) What can the slow-motion death of Sea World teach us about the state of our culture? A lot, if you have an eye for key similarities. Let me tell you a whale of a tale. The recent death of Tilikum the orca, the subject of the flashpoint documentary “Blackfish,” has the online animal rights community in a frenzy. Over at Salon, former trainer and “Blackfish” interviewee John Hargrove calls the bull killer whale’s death another “cry... Read more

Head Scratcher: Could Jesus Have Sinned?

Last updated on: January 11, 2017 at 8:04 pm By G. Shane Morris

This is one of those theological dilemmas that floats around the pews and causes a great deal of head-scratching. It’s also one of those topics on which pastors never seem to preach. The affirmation of Hebrews that Jesus was “tempted in every way as we are yet without sin” is usually offered in place of a more detailed explanation. And that’s all well and good. But if it was impossible for Christ to sin, what does it mean to say... Read more

Jesus Has a Physical Body Forever (And So Will We)

Last updated on: January 5, 2017 at 2:42 pm By G. Shane Morris

“’Now, Bree,’” he said, ‘you poor, proud, frightened Horse, draw near. Nearer still, my son. Do not dare not to dare. Touch me. Smell me. Here are my paws, here is my tail, these are my whiskers. I am a true Beast’” -Aslan, “The Horse and His Boy” There’s a common misconception in the Christian rank and file that Jesus’ resurrected body was something other than a real, physical body with flesh and bones, and that our resurrected bodies will... Read more

15 Years Later, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ Film Is an Allegory of Power and Providence

Last updated on: April 6, 2018 at 11:17 am By G. Shane Morris

Fifteen years ago, the naysayers ate their words. As the folks at TheOneRing.net document in an insightful little anthology, “The People’s Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien,” many had concluded prior to the release of Peter Jackson’s adaptation of “The Fellowship of the Ring” that the Oxford philologist’s high fantasy was incompatible with the screen. They were wrong. As wrong as Saruman was about a halfling’s chances of reaching Mount Doom. “The Fellowship of the Ring” soared to box office... Read more

How Narnia Should Have Ended: Why ‘The Last Battle’ is My Least Favorite Chronicle

Last updated on: December 5, 2016 at 5:03 pm By G. Shane Morris

I am a lifelong Narnia fan. I treasure these books, constantly refer to them, and still mysteriously get something in my eye when Aslan explains the Deeper Magic from Before Time. C. S. Lewis was simply a master world-weaver, and Narnia is Lewis par excellence. So I don’t make this confession lightly. But I’ve stayed in the closet (wardrobe?) for too long. Here goes: I’ve always found “The Last Battle” disappointing. Most people assume that, since I am a Calvinist,... Read more

The Real Reason Evangelicals Don’t Baptize Babies

Last updated on: December 5, 2016 at 10:56 am By G. Shane Morris

Friends (especially those expecting children) ask me with surprising frequency why I believe in infant baptism. For a couple of years, I replied by giving what I think the best biblical reasons are. But I usually don’t take that route anymore, because I’ve realized that’s not what convinced me. For most evangelicals, what stands in the way of baptizing infants isn’t a lack of biblical evidence, but an interpretive lens they wear when reading Scripture. That lens–shaped by revivals, rugged... Read more