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How To Talk About Christian Ethics
In our paganized culture, anytime an orthodox Christian speaks his mind on sexuality and gender, it should be recognized, encouraged, and, most of all, honored. This is especially true...
The Gospel and the Natural Law
In the Baptist church of my childhood, we often sang the hymn “He Paid a Debt He Did Not Owe”: He paid a debt he did not owenI owed...
Thank You, Mark Oppenheimer
Two days after the Obergefell decision, New York Times columnist Mark Oppenheimer suggested that it is now time to rethink the idea of tax-exempt status for religious institutions: “Rather...
Opportunities and Education after Obergefell
Very recently, I was at a conference where Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Gergis, two of the nation’s foremost intellectual champions of marriage, spoke about marriage post-Obergefell (confession: Ryan...
#LoveWins—Or Else
In the aftermath of Friday’s Supreme Court decision, attention is turning toward the future of religious liberty. And if you read Justice Kennedy’s opinion on the ruling, you’ll quickly learn...
A Note from Creator Cakes
A fictionalized note from a Christian baker: To our dear and beloved customers, Creator Cakes has served this community for over two decades. That we run our business in...
Willing Incompatible Worlds
To find the words that describe with accuracy the media hysterics involved with Indiana’s passing of a Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) may be impossible. The sanctimonious moral preening...
Selma and Humane Democracy
Over the weekend, President Obama and other national leaders traveled to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the march on Selma. The events of that day in...
Stand with Barronelle Stutzman
In the ongoing cultural disputes that pit a person’s sexual “identity” against a person’s religious liberty, it’s not often that you see eye-popping courage and conviction. This is just...
The Legal Ingredients to Forced Baking 2.0
I’ve been saying this for a while now, but on the most contentious issues of the culture war, namely homosexuality and same-sex marriage, it is conservative Christians that deserve...
The Atlanta Fire Chief Fired
The story of Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran’s dismissal is circulating widely around the web, and for what looks to be good reason. The affair has been reported widely,...
Why Christians Care About Sex
A new study out this week shows widening gaps in how different demographics in America approach sexuality and family. The Relationships in America study, produced by the Austin Institute,...
Hillsong: We Haven’t Shifted After All
In light of new comments from Hillsong’s head pastor, Brian Houston, I wanted to add some additional thoughts to the critical comments I made on Friday. On Saturday, the...
A Church In Exile
Update: Hillsong: We Haven’t Shifted After All Religion, and maybe Ebola, owned the news this week. From the confusion and public relations nightmare at the Vatican over the Synod’s Relatio,...
InterVarsity Christian Ministry in Trouble for Acting Christian
To protect against discrimination, liberals increasingly seek to discriminate. News broke over the weekend that all twenty-three schools within the California State University system have taken steps to “derecognize”...