Why Christian colleges are closing and what we can do
Over the last few months, several long-established Christian schools announced cutbacks, budget crises and major restructuring.
John Stonestreet
Op-ed contributor
John Stonestreet is the President of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, and co-host with Eric Metaxas of Breakpoint, the Christian worldview radio program founded by the late Chuck Colson. He is co-author of A Practical Guide to Culture, A Student's Guide to Culture and Restoring All Things.
How redefined marriage legally robs kids of what’s best for them
The biological reality, that one man and one woman are required to make a child, points to the social reality, which is that children do best with a mom and a dad. This neither makes abuse inevitable for children in other arrangements nor does it suggest that biological parents never abuse. In fact, child abuse can become tragically epidemic within certain cultures and families.
Britain’s 1984 moment
How did Britain, with its rich history of defending liberty, devolve into a place of banning prayer and peaceful protest while categorizing as dangerous some of the greatest classics their culture has offered the world?
Zombie science: Humans share 99% of DNA with chimpanzees?
But is that true? Well, the fact that humans share roughly 60% of our DNA with bananas should clue us in that there is much more behind what makes us us than just genes.
Don’t call on demons you don’t believe in
Christians know who and what we wrestle against. What we can offer to those looking for whatever it is they are looking for in all the wrong places is more than another form of spirituality.
Why so many are choosing couches over pews
After decades of appealing first and foremost to whatever people want and editing to whatever they think, we’ve essentially discipled a generation that will only follow a Church that leads where they want to go.
If you give a man a womb, is he a woman?
Men having babies is no longer a laughing matter, if it ever should have been, but the idea that a “womb transplant” makes a man a woman is as absurd as it was before medical technology gave us the power to try.
Is Genesis just one of the many creation myths?
The Genesis account explains the violence and power that plagues the world but puts it in the larger context of a world made of order and peace, made by a loving Creator.
Should John Witherspoon’s statue remain at Princeton?
We ought to learn from the past, but we should remember that those who come after us will also find cause to condemn the planks we failed to see in our own eyes.
What music is for in corporate worship
Music is a gift of God, a unique way of connecting His revelation with our hearts and minds. St. Augustine is thought to have said, “he who sings, prays twice.” The Church must recover a more robust understanding and practice of music.
