If you want Christian values in your nation, you must love Christ more than your nation. However, this is not the same thing as loving Christ instead of your nation. If you love your nation more than Christ, your nation will not prosper. However, if you love Christ more than your nation, you will truly be loving your nation... Continue Reading

My earthly loyalty is to the United States of America. And as long as that does not conflict with my ultimate loyalty to Jesus Christ, then I will support America. This is part of the Christian tradition’s teaching on the ordo amoris, cited recently by Vice President JD Vance. There is an order of love... Continue Reading

Drag queens are treated like spiritual leaders while pastors act like influencers. We live in a time where stating the obvious can get you canceled. But silence is not love. And neutrality is not holiness. Christian, if you’re waiting for the culture to turn itself around, it won’t. This madness ends only one way: when... Continue Reading

I am a Semitic Palestinian Christian. I was born under difficult Israeli occupation, baptized in a church that stood centuries before the Reformation, and raised in the land where Christ walked. My worship is in Arabic. My theology is anchored in the early Church. And my grief is profound.   What happens when the land... Continue Reading

The normalization of non-monogamy doesn’t just impact those who practice it. It reshapes culture itself. And not for the better. When commitment is devalued, relationships become transactional. Sex ceases to be an expression of love and instead becomes another consumer good—swiped, scheduled, and discarded.   There’s a reason stable civilizations have upheld monogamy for centuries.... Continue Reading

It’s intriguing to see that a cohort of young men who have long been told they are not only privileged for being male, but are problematic for, well for being male, has started turning up at church…People are moving from death to life, darkness to light, not because of our programs or our agendas or... Continue Reading

It is good for young men to be ambitious and look for meaning outside themselves. The essential task now is to channel this energy correctly. Caesar, Napoleon, and Trump may leave earthly legacies, but ultimately, their achievements will pass away. The only way truly to fulfill one’s quest for purpose is to find it in... Continue Reading

Masculinity, according to critical theory, is, by definition, oppressive. And patriarchy, which gives males privilege must be torn down. The culture in which the rising generation of men swims daily tells them that their manhood is repulsive, automatically making them evil oppressors.   Thanks for joining us for our June Fatherhood Month celebration series, Men... Continue Reading

Whether the trend of Pride month being more low-key and less ubiquitous continues remains to be seen. We can only hope that it does so. But as Christians we must also ask whether some of this is due to developments that are less encouraging than a dose of sanity on the trans issue. It may... Continue Reading

There is something weirdly serene and almost holy about experiencing the death of someone you love dearly this intensely and this close. I don’t know any other way to describe it, but it changed me in ways I’m only beginning to fathom. The mind wanders during such ordeals, especially in the quiet moments before and... Continue Reading