With decades of experience, Mary is conversant with the amateur athletic world (as well as the professional), so I value her wisdom in helping parents navigate the high-pressure, specialized world of youth sports. In anticipation of the upcoming spring and summer seasons, I asked Mary Kassian questions about the costs of team sports, the value... Continue Reading

Probably still the most prominent accomplishment of the LGBT movement in the United States is the redefinition of marriage in Obergefell v Hodges. In this decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy declared that the plaintiffs’ homosexual “sexual orientation” could not change. Homosexuality was, to borrow Kennedy’s words, “their immutable nature.” As a result, practicing homosexuals were only capable... Continue Reading

Research in this field—not to mention the reporting of its results—”generally conveys the impression that Buddhism is particularly concerned with the promotion of pro-sociality, and that meditation is the means to achieve it,” the researchers write. But “leading academics of South Asian religions” argue that, “for most forms of Buddhism, it is not meditation, but... Continue Reading

Meanwhile, a majority of professors agreed that today’s students are “intellectually less able” to function in a university than they were in the past: It has long been the goal of today’s schools to ensure that students are “college and career ready.” Judging from the observations of college professors, that goal is not being realized.... Continue Reading

“Yes, Christians are called to seek the good of those around us, and to pursue justice and to love good and shun evil. But we get into trouble when we confuse the earthly city with the heavenly city. Until Christ returns, this world will never look like it should. You can’t use politics to build... Continue Reading

Knox helped awaken a nation that neglected God’s truth which led to a virtual eclipse of the gospel. Martyn Lloyd-Jones describes Knox as a man who preached “with the fire of God in his bones and in his belly! He preached as they all preached, with fire and power, alarming sermons, convicting sermons, humbling sermons,... Continue Reading

These seven norms are non-negotiable principles in the thinking and ecclesiology of Francis Schaeffer.  These norms are commanded by God.  Any church that fails to engage in even one of these crucial norms forfeits the right to be called a true church.  However, Dr. Schaeffer believes there are many areas in which the church is... Continue Reading

A book of instructions will orient you and includes the mandate, “Be bored.”  The idea is that you do nothing.  You spend your time looking not at a screen but looking out the window into the woods.  Wander around outside, if you want.  Enjoy time with your spouse, if you come as a couple.  But have no... Continue Reading

Postmodernism essentially posits the view that there is nobody in the universe.  There is “nobody to love man, nobody to comfort him, even while he seeks desperately to find comfort in the limited, finite, horizontal relationships to life (Death In The City, 215).   The result is that “God has turned away in judgment as our... Continue Reading

Morales’s second Senate term ended in January when she resigned to switch parties and run for the nation’s presidency. She and her husband Carlos Alonso Lucio, a former guerrilla who became a senator and converted to Christianity, have spearheaded a national campaign to allow only couples in traditional marriages to adopt children.   Why does... Continue Reading