66 Abortion Clinics Stop Providing Abortions
While 66 clinics are no longer providing abortion, pregnancy resource centers continue to do their important care.
Oct 19, 2022•1 min
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Can You Laugh at Your Enemies and Love Them? Rules for Christian Mockery
As platforms like Twitter facilitate nastier and hotter debates than ever, Christians who take part would do well to examine our principles and consider how it's possible to laugh at our enemies and love them.
Oct 19, 2022•5 min
Mobile Death
According to NPR, Planned Parenthood will soon be sending out "mobile abortion clinics," buses outfitted to provide abortion services on wheels.
Oct 18, 2022•1 min
How Dads Change With Fatherhood
Fathers are more than just sperm donors. They have a connection with their children beyond contributing DNA. This supports the claim that there's really no such thing as parenting: There's only mothering and fathering.
Oct 18, 2022•5 min
The Elephant in the Room
You may have heard that Eastern story about the six blind men who encounter an elephant. Who was right about their view of the elephant? Everyone, we're told. Just like everyone is right in their own view about God. But in reality, none of the men were right about the elephant.
Oct 17, 2022•1 min
Chloe Cole, Detransitioning After a Double Mastectomy at 15
Detransitioners are considered either non-existent or an embarrassment by the cultural powers that be. Yet, they make clear that people struggling with dysphoria are not the enemy. Rather, the dogmas of trans ideology are.
Oct 17, 2022•5 min
Cheating Rationalized, Government-Assisted Suicide, and the Increased Happiness of Conservative Women
John and Maria consider the latest cheating scandals in competitions, recognizing people's capacity for self-rationalization. After a discussion about government-funded suicide of young people in Canada, they conclude with a recent survey in the U.S. showing that conservative women are happier.
Oct 15, 2022•1 hr 14 min
Want to Feel Superhuman?
Instead of letting social media notifications, games, and texts control your schedule, keep those activities to pre-allotted time slots. Be physically present with people.
Oct 14, 2022•1 min
Was Chesterton Antisemitic?
His words may at times offend our post-Holocaust sensibilities, but taken in context, Chesterton emerges mostly as a friend and defender of the Jews. This month, the Colson Center has teamed up with Chesterton scholar Dale Ahlquist to create an exclusive set of videos on Chesterton's understanding of the purpose of family. Ahlquist has recently compiled a new book of Chesterton's essays, titled The Story of the Family . For a gift of any amount, you may receive this book and access to the video ...
Oct 14, 2022•5 min
Was Jesus Pro-Abortion?
From its earliest days, wherever abortion was practiced, the Church condemned it and must continue to do so today.
Oct 13, 2022•1 min
Gender Transition for Minors: What Does the Research Say?
The data is overwhelming. Contrary to what is consistently filling our newsfeeds, there is a disturbing lack of evidence that intervening in a child's gender development produces beneficial results of any kind. More than that, many studies are showing a strong potential for lasting harm. Love must speak the truth. As gentle as we must be with those who struggle with whom God created them to be, or even those who profess to be our enemies in this cultural tug-of-war, the Church has to stand for w...
Oct 13, 2022•6 min
The Lemon Test Needed to Be Shot Down
Just because someone feels offended by the sight of prayer doesn't mean that it's coercive. The Lemon Test is now gone, thankfully, and religious liberty will be better protected because of it.
Oct 12, 2022•58 sec
Homelessness in America: Why Many Solutions Fail
The solution to homelessness must always revolve around re-engagement with relationships, with families, with community, and all the values that spring from them: responsibility, accountability, restoration, grace, and connection.
Oct 12, 2022•5 min
Reps for Jesus
F3 offers a witness to the goodness of fellowship in the lives of men—and particularly how fellowship grounded in faith in Jesus just seems to be the strongest and most life-giving kind there is.
Oct 11, 2022•1 min
Family Isn't Fake
Can the definition of family "morph"? Is family a real thing that exists, or is the word family a mere placeholder for any relational arrangement? Children need their moms and their dads . Moms need their husbands, and dads need their wives. These needs aren't fake, socially constructed, or culturally conditioned. This month, for a gift of any amount to the Colson Center, we'll send you Chesterton scholar Dale Ahlquist's compilation of Chesterton essays, The Story of the Family , and also provid...
Oct 11, 2022•5 min
Emma Revell Moody, a Strong Woman
Emma's poise, serenity, and sense of humor counterbalanced her husband's impulsive, emotional nature and became the backbone of [Dwight] Moody's success.
Oct 10, 2022•1 min
Yes, Men's and Women's Sports Should Be Separated
Recently in The Atlantic, Maggie Mertens declared that "separating sports by sex doesn't make sense." As long as equality means sameness and exceptions disprove created norms, we can expect headlines to only become more and more absurd, reflecting even more creative mental gymnastics.
Oct 10, 2022•5 min
Regulative Assaults on Pro-Life Resource Centers, Engaging as Christians on Social Media, and Re-definitions of Infertility and Marriage
As pro-life resource centers undergo not only physical assaults but regulative ones, John and Maria discuss how we can support them. They then consider what to make of the Herschel Walker allegations and how Christians can engage with others on social media. Concluding, they discuss the historical process leading to a gay couple claiming infertility and a judge re-defining marriage to be polyamorous.
Oct 08, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Planned Parenthood's "3 Percent" Fallacy
Abortion is big business for Planned Parenthood, no matter how they fudge the numbers.
Oct 07, 2022•1 min
Living as Earthly and Heavenly Citizens
God did not create generic people with shapeless identities. While there is not biblical warrant to call any nation "Christian" since the days of ancient Israel, there's plenty for living fully as Christians as citizens of our nations.
Oct 07, 2022•4 min
Legalized Pot: A Gateway Drug to Corruption
The data is in, and legalizing marijuana never delivers what is promised.
Oct 06, 2022•1 min
Should Christians Be Nationalists?
Christians must avoid two extremes when it comes to inappropriate conflation of Christianity and nationalism. While God moves through nations and states, just as He does through individuals, the restoration of all things involves people from every tongue, tribe, nation, and language. It is simply unwise to take up a term that has been historically associated with some of the worst villains of the last century or so.
Oct 06, 2022•5 min
800,000 Lives Saved
Pregnancy resource centers need public support from business leaders and pastors. They need our support and prayers more than ever.
Oct 05, 2022•1 min
Why Are Men in Crisis?
Young men aren't forming social bonds with real, live people, even the kinds of bonds that have historically captured their attention. Christians have an answer for a world that obliterates the helpful aspects of sexual difference, pacifies men with distractions and addictions, and promises limitless sexual freedom while dismantling the family.
Oct 05, 2022•5 min
Remembering Brother Andrew
Last month the world lost a fearless evangelist. Known simply as "Brother Andrew," he was responsible for smuggling thousands of Bibles into the Soviet Union.
Oct 04, 2022•1 min
Parents Need to Know What's Happening at School
Not only is transparency a necessary accountability, but parents have a "deeply rooted" constitutional right "to direct the upbringing of their children, and to make decisions regarding their children's education and healthcare in a manner consistent with family values." On Tuesday, October 11, in person or via online live streaming, please join me for an important conversation about "Kids and Culture: The Clash for the Next Generation's Hearts and Minds." Joining me for this conversation will b...
Oct 04, 2022•6 min
A Lack of Productivity Could Point to a Lack of Meaning
Christians have the unique perspective that our work is a way of participating with God in His creation, working toward the flourishing of everything and everyone else.
Oct 03, 2022•1 min
Faraday Recognized an Authority Greater Than Science
Michael Faraday is an example of how Christians can balance the constructive purposes of science with an accurate understanding of scientific authority. Some of humanity's greatest discoveries began by bucking conventional wisdom and allowing the evidence to lead elsewhere. "Science," after all, never "says" anything. Only scientists do, offering hypotheses as a way of stewarding the data science provides.
Oct 03, 2022•5 min
Worldview and Natural Calamity, the Term "Christian Nationalism," and Uprising in Iran
As the hurricane finished its course through Florida, John and Maria talk about how worldview analysis applies to such natural calamities. They then consider the popularity of the term "Christian nationalism"–should Christian nationalism be a concern for U.S. Christians right now? In closing, they discuss why, in the case of the Iran uprising, an authoritarian state cannot perpetuate a society well.
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Who's the Enemy When It Comes to Unborn Children?
Fetal development is no conspiracy of men to control women. Politically convenient talking points cannot deny the reality and truth of humanity in the womb.
Sep 30, 2022•1 min
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