It’s the season of Lent. How are you pursuing or chasing after God in these 40 days? Armor Up each day with Carmen via ReconnectOne. Now, on to the headlines…. Religious liberty here at home… AOC: The GOP only every invokes “Religious Freedom” when it wants to justify hate I don’t often send you to […]
The Nuclear Family was a Mistake The headline is total clickbait, right? It’s not about abandoning the institution of the family but actually rediscovering and recommitting ourselves to the multigenerational mess family was always intended to be. It’s the nuclear family (which was too fragile and fractured into single family and then to no family) […]
Must Christian Higher Education give up its distinctively Christian commitments to accommodate LGBTQ identifying and allied students? That is the argument made by David Gushee in a Religion News piece entitled, Christian Higher Ed Can’t Win the LGBTQ debate unless it transforms. Is the Fairness for All Act proposed in U.S. Congress really fair […]
The Number 1 security risk in the world is dead It feels like we have to lead off with the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-declared Caliph of the Islamic State. He ultimately blew himself up but his journey to that end was paved with human devastation. He is responsible for the rape, torture, and […]
First, a quick reminder of what we’re doing here… A listener from Kansas called me out Friday morning during the show. He heard the news but wasn’t sure he heard me ever bring the Good News to bear on the news. I appreciate the reminder of what I’m supposed to be doing on air every […]
The reality on the U.S. southern border is unsustainable. News reports conflict as to “why” but everyone agrees that people must be treated with dignity and the system is failing. I continue to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform but Congress seems unlikely to move on that agenda. Facilities are totally overwhelmed and we are asking […]
This week International Religious Freedom takes center stage in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, is casting an inspiring vision for the State Department’s 2nd Ministerial on the topic. At the heart of it is to get people of every faith to stand up and defend the right of freedom […]
Only Ohio and Tennessee continue to uphold biological reality on birth certificates as Kansas becomes the 48th state to allow people to change their birth certificate to match their transgender identity. From the article we read, “It was time for Kansas to move past its outdated and discriminatory anti-transgender policy,” Gov. Laura Kelly said in a statement […]
As you consider the importance of worldview in international relations: Iran…Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia… Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Saudi Arabia building a global coalition against Iran. National Security Advisor John Bolton met yesterday in Jerusalem with Russian and Israeli officials seeking to broker peace. There is no question that economic sanctions are strangling […]
The (worldview) front page If the stories on the front page of the paper were chosen for their worldview significance, here’s what we’d be reading today: Forbes is reporting that the American Medical Association is responding to an epidemic of violence against transgender community. Let’s dissect that. Forbes, a news source specifically designed to speak […]