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Jesus Calling: The PCA’s Yuck Factor

My previous two articles are designed to get two fingers in the back or our own throat– to confront ourselves publicly, rather than ignore our evangelical brethren politely.

Written by Benjamin Inman | Tuesday, April 2, 2024

 Jesus Calling isn’t what we do in the PCA. PCA ministry doesn’t do that. Let’s just drop it. It is pointless. Who needs to dwell on things vaguely unpleasant? Methodists are Methodist, and they are Christians. Who should judge another man’s servant? I’m busy doing God’s work. That book doesn’t belong in my sphere of... Continue Reading

When “Helping” Kids Hurts Them

Why the generation accessing the most mental therapy is the most mentally unhealthy.

Written by John Stonestreet and Shane Morris | Tuesday, April 2, 2024

For Christians who understand that human beings are more than matter that can be molded and medicated, the need for a book like this is even more obvious. Divine revelation and millennia of insight suggest that much of what passes for “psychological trauma” today is spiritual brokenness. Spiritual healing can take the form of counseling... Continue Reading

Steeped in Fragility

Jonathan Haidt describes how a smartphone-based childhood works against making children resilient.

Written by Carolyn D. Gorman | Monday, April 1, 2024

For the vast majority of children, mental-health treatment will not be necessary. Kids are resilient. Just as a smoker who quits will immediately boost his life expectancy, kids who spend less time and attention on platforms designed to be addictive and anxiety-inducing have a chance to bounce back. Haidt’s proposals can help give them that... Continue Reading

Testament: The Story of Moses

Netflix’s attempt at a documentary-style Biblical epic misses the mark concerning Moses’ importance.

Written by Collin Garbarino | Monday, April 1, 2024

The series purports to offer a history of Moses, but it’s a history lacking in scholarly rigor because it grants any source that mentions Moses equal authority regardless of authorship or date of composition.People unfamiliar with the Bible will finish this series confused about who the Moses of Scripture was, but Christians firm in the... Continue Reading

Adapted Excerpt from Radical Discipleship: What is Christian Discipleship?

We must be radical for Christ in separating ourselves from this world and imitating God, knowing that our time here on earth is short and this world is not our home.

Written by Hensworth Jonas | Saturday, March 30, 2024

The focus of our gaze must be upward and forward, not backward or around us. There must be a longing in our hearts for the beautiful city of God, combined with a holy indifference to the things of this world that we always will all inevitably leave behind us. Even the good things in our... Continue Reading

Raising Neurotic Wrecks

A Review of Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

Written by Martha Dunson | Thursday, March 28, 2024

Bad Therapy should shake parents out of the world’s therapeutic parenting ideology. Then, of course, Christians will have to replace the worldly wisdom Shrier debunks with sound Biblical teaching. God is gracious and when we walk by faith and parent according to God’s design, we can be confident that we will raise godly children capable of... Continue Reading

The Receding Tides of New Atheism

Book Review—"The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God," by Justin Brierley

Written by Pip Witheridge | Wednesday, March 27, 2024

The story of the West is so bound up in the story of Christianity that it is easy to forget the water we are all swimming in. This is true of the moral values we deem worth fighting for: “when we exalt humility and compassion, or champion the equality and dignity of every human being,... Continue Reading

All You Need Is Love

There really is something about love.

Written by Bill Muehlenberg | Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Some of you will say, ‘It is just a lousy movie – why are you getting so worked up about it?’ OK, so call me a sentimental old fool. But some of you will share my reactions. Something very deep down inside of me is touched when I watch a movie like this. It is... Continue Reading

What’s Driving “Deconstruction”?

New book helps us understand and respond to the phenomenon seeping into the Church.

Written by John Stonestreet and Jared Hayden | Monday, March 25, 2024

This is a book to help readers understand what deconstruction is and what it isn’t—and understand common deconstructionist terms like “exvangelical.” It equips loved ones to identify the patterns of deceptive thought that lay underneath deconstruction and acquire wisdom for thoughtfully examining one’s own faith without merely punting to deconstruction. And it offers helpful tools... Continue Reading

Hope in a Time of Secular Despair

A new book examines the roots of our vicious, turned-in-on-itself times and offers our only hope—the transcendent made flesh.

Written by Gene Edward Veith | Monday, March 25, 2024

As Snell admits, Christianity and Judaism, with their critique of paganism and rejection of idolatry, played a big part in banishing the “magic” and “enchantment” from nature. And yet, while God is transcendent, He is also immanent. Indeed, Christianity is all about how the transcendent God entered the “immanent frame.” The church would do well... Continue Reading

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