Should Christians Eat the Passover Seder? A Response to Christianity Today
Rabbis Yehiel Poupko and David Sandmel have an interesting piece in Christianity Today entitled, “Jesus Didn’t Eat a Seder Meal: Why Christians Shouldn’t, Either.” Their basic claim is that the Seder...
View ArticleOn Holidays and Calvinist Curmudgeons
Reformed Christianity can seem sharply divided and at times schizophrenic on the issue of holidays and the church calendar. Many argue that strict application of the Regulative Principle of Worship...
View ArticleThere Will Be Child Murderers in Heaven
Today a Facebook friend of mine shared a snarky meme from an atheist page. It was that popular painting of Jesus holding a toddler in a rose garden and pointing playfully at something. It looks like...
View ArticlePurity Culture on Trial, Part 1 – The Backlash to the Backlash
This week a friend sent me a piece by Rebecca Calhoun at Christ and Pop Culture entitled “Moving Past the Purity Movement.” I’ve got to say, it’s one of the best and most insightful articles I’ve read...
View ArticleCremation and Face App: Why Symbols Matter
Burning and crushing a body into powder says something about it. It has symbolic significance, and all mankind throughout all of history until very recently has understood this.
View ArticleChoosing Pets Over Kids Is A Psychiatric Disorder
If you grew up with dogs (as I did), you know that something bizarre and sad often happens when a mother dog loses her puppies. With hormones and maternal instinct coursing through her, she will...
View ArticlePurity Culture on Trial, Part 2: Love, Not License
Read part 1 here. Following my recent post on the victim culture that’s grown up around Josh Harris’ twenty-year-old book, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” John Ehrett wrote a guest post at Evangelical...
View ArticleHow Should We Understand the Left?
The progressive project is pure utopianism. You won’t understand anything or anyone on the left until you grasp this. The progressive worldview centers on the idea of inevitable moral evolution toward...
View ArticleStop Calling Charity ‘Giving Back’
This has become the millennial way of saying "charity."
View ArticleOn Surrogacy, IVF, Evangelicals Are Dropping the Ball Again
Forty years ago, American evangelicals were defending or ignoring abortion. Today they're defending or ignoring new bioethical challenges.
View ArticleReza Aslan’s ‘Believer’ Was Everything Wrong with Religion Reporting
Aslan uses trite syncretism as a mandate not to take the truth-claims of any one religion (including his own) “too seriously.”
View ArticleA Reply to Rod Dreher on Worldview
Writing at The American Conservative, Rod Dreher raises some concerns with evangelical use of the concept of “Christian worldview.” Working as I do at a Christian worldview ministry, and having...
View ArticleWhy Are Atheists Steamrolling Our Students?
Christians have pretty uniformly adopted a subjective, experience-centric, and distinctly postmodern outlook on their faith.
View ArticleAmericans Think the World Is Way Worse Than It Actually Is
For the most part, Americans form their political opinions without the slightest reference to reality. Our perceptions of the objective state of our country and world are wildly divorced from the facts.
View ArticleThe Writers of ‘Planet of the Apes’ Went Bananas with Christian Imagery
It’s summer, and I don’t need any other excuse for this post. I just saw “War for the Planet of the Apes,” the last of a reboot trilogy that’s probably my favorite science fiction franchise in recent...
View ArticleThe One Where I Argue Against Tattoos
The argument that everything not specifically forbidden in Scripture is permitted is a bad one.
View ArticleOn the Christian Bubble, and Being the Bad Guys
A recent episode of the Disney Channel cartoon show, “Doc McStuffins,” which is aimed at preschoolers, depicts a lesbian couple (who are dolls in a little girl’s imaginary world) teaching kids about...
View ArticleWant to Fuel the Alt-Right? Tear Down More Statues
Left-wing vigilantism directed at a statue is exactly the kind of thing that fuels the alt-right. It gives reality to the white nationalist alarm cry that their heritage is under attack by unrestrained...
View ArticleThe Eclipse and Our Privileged Planet with Dr. Jay Richards
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Jay Richards, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, for the BreakPoint Podcast. Dr. Richards is co-author of the book, “The Privileged Planet,” and...
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