Scripture speaks about people and about where they stand. Some live within a community’s laws and remain there. They accept the obligations that come with that place. Others remain outside that shared life. Scripture speaks of both. The cross does not remove those differences. The law is still present. Sin is still named. Nearness is... Continue Reading

It has long been the case that laxer forms of religion have declined while more demanding forms have grown or at least declined more slowly. The divide within this segment of Gen Z seems to be even more pronounced. This group will not be interested in churches that accommodate themselves to American culture. The seeker-sensitive... Continue Reading

The church is called to preach the gospel, show mercy, care for the needy, and love the stranger. Individual Christians can and should find ways to help immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers through charity, ministry, and hospitality, but should never break the law in doing so.   Immigration is one of the most emotionally charged... Continue Reading

The problem AI poses is political through and through. While today we often characterize debates around the ratification of the Constitution as centering on questions of power, actually the Founders were much more concerned about the value of responsibility.   More than a generation ago, Steve Jobs enthused that the computer represented “a bicycle for... Continue Reading

AI is a program; it does what it is made to do. It repeats and responds to prompts from the bank of information it has. Some have looked to AI to fill the void they find when their life lacks the intimacy of a relationship, or at least intimacy without the challenges that come from... Continue Reading

“We hope this settlement shows teachers that they do not have to bow the knee to ideological mandates that violate their religious beliefs. And schools should learn that refusing to accommodate religious employees can be illegal and expensive.”—ADF Senior Counsel and Vice President of U.S. Litigation David Cortman.   INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—An Indiana school district agreed... Continue Reading

The most significant consequence of the dispensationalist decline is the collapse of the theological firewall that historically shielded the relationship between conservative Protestants, Jewish Americans, and Israel. Viewing Jewish political sovereignty in the Holy Land as an essential gear in the clock ticking toward the Second Coming of Jesus Christ; for the dispensationalist, this was... Continue Reading

Politics matters, and those called to work in that world serve God and their neighbors in doing so. But it’s not the only thing in life, or even the most important thing. Far from it. We can all thank God that, with the bird’s-eye view offered by the prospect of death, Ben Sasse has blessed... Continue Reading

Under Bill C-4 (2022), it became illegal for young men like Strang to acquire counseling to address gender dysphoria and to become comfortable with his body; the Trudeau government claimed, absurdly, that body-affirming counseling constitutes “conversion therapy.” Several journalists pointed out that the RCMP’s inaccurate description of the shooter, while the situation was ongoing, as “female” was a “prime example of... Continue Reading

The evangelical cultural engagement world seems not to have developed the ability to look at mainstream elite culture in a critically detached way. This feeds into an inability to create insightful analysis or compelling critiques of that culture, which in my view is related to the persistent inability of evangelicals to form people who end... Continue Reading