In China, They’re Closing Churches, Jailing Pastors – and Even Rewriting Scripture
The government aims to regulate the ‘religious market’ as a whole.
As of 2018, the government has implemented sweeping rules on religious practices, adding more requirements for religious groups and barring unapproved organisations from engaging in any religious activity. But the campaign is not just about managing behaviour. One of the goals of a government work plan for “promoting Chinese Christianity” between 2018 and 2022 is... Continue Reading
Six Dangers to Teach Your Kids About Porn
Pornography is not a harmless, private activity. It is one of the major engines fueling the demand for sexual exploitation in all its forms.
Many people (including Christians!) say, “There’s just nothing we can do about it,” or even, “What’s the big deal?” Here’s the big deal: Porn is a worldview, and like any worldview, it becomes a set of “lenses” through which we look at the world, interpret what we see, and then live it out. Porn teaches... Continue Reading
Religion Externalized
It is ordinary people of authentic Christian faith who are ultimately the ones who best able to shape the outcome of human events.
It is plain folks, simple people, who literally change the course of history–because they are the stuff of which history is made. They are the ones who make the world go round. For, as G.K. Chesterton said, “The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary... Continue Reading
Don’t Look Away
As parents, it’s hard to face the reality that these are the kinds of “truths” that filmmakers and book writers, YouTubers and celebrities, teachers and politicians are diligently trying to teach our children.
A video is making its way around the internet that is part of a series called “Kids Meet…” This particular episode is titled “Kids Meet Someone Who’s Had an Abortion.” In the video, Amelia Bonow, the founder of #ShoutYourAbortion, sits down with kids to talk to them about how normal abortion is. She says it’s... Continue Reading
Why Pray for the Media?
Two people who were not seeking the limelight spoke an oft-derided message through the media to the applause of almost everyone.
Both of these figures, on public platforms, testified clearly and boldly to the grace and truth of Jesus Christ. The media honored them greatly. Denhollander and Trent spoke the good news of the gospel to huge numbers of people. Christians too often bemoan that they are shouted out of the public square, but that has... Continue Reading
Dutch Pastors Face Possible Criminal Investigation For Signing The Nashville Statement
Last month, over 250 Dutch pastors and church leaders went public with their endorsement of the Nashville Statement; the statement has been met with fierce opposition in the Netherlands.
I am grateful for these men and their courageous stand for biblical teaching. Pray for these pastors. They did not anticipate this kind of opposition to what is essentially a confessional statement. But now they are being called to stand in the face of severe headwinds from the wider culture. They are also facing a... Continue Reading
10 Exciting Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology in 2018
Previously archaeological teams stopped digging under certain sites in Iraq, such as the traditional tomb of Jonah the prophet, for fear of destroying them.
Once the Iraqi army rooted out ISIS earlier this year, archaeologists began checking the historic sites to see how much damage had been done. They made some startling discoveries. Tunnels dug by the terrorist group revealed a previously untouched Assyrian palace in the ancient city of Nineveh and several inscriptions that corroborate biblical accounts. This past year... Continue Reading
Shelter in the Shame Storm
more and more of my thinking and writing has been taken up with trying to understand what technology, especially social media, is doing to me and my generation.
There are probably only two kinds of people whose online habits aren’t at least challenged by phenomenons like online shaming: the people who stop reading essays like Helen’s because they don’t want them to be challenged, or the people for whom online shaming is not a problem but a bonus. Four years ago I would... Continue Reading
Salutary Lessons from the Evils of Nazi Ideology
A lot of ordinary Germans supported Hitler and were involved in implementing his genocidal policies. Why?
The Third Reich still raises questions that should be disturbing to all who are confident they’re so civilized they could never be part of such horror. Germany was culturally and technologically the most advanced nation in Europe in 1900; 33 years later Hitler was its chancellor, and neither the Third Reich nor the Holocaust could... Continue Reading
10 Critical Religious Liberty Cases Coming in 2019
Continual vigilance is necessary.
Although the new year is still a few days away, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is already preparing to defend a number of important legal challenges to freedom of religion. Here are ten cases coming in 2019 you should know about. Despite the continual threats to the religious freedom of Christians in America, there were a... Continue Reading
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