Words and images can be intentionally co-opted by those seeking to advance particular ideological agendas— without even knowing it. If we don’t know what a boy is then groups like the Boy Scouts and leagues for boys and girls sports lose all meaning. Consider the way in which the image of the rainbow now communicates […]
It’s that time of year when we start making New Year’s Resolutions. Resolutions can be helpful but without an actual plan, things are unlikely to change. I know that for me, my own will is weak, my powers of rationalization strong. Discipline fails without accountability and I’m prone to continue in old patterns instead of […]
Five months ago— five months— the image of a young boy pulled from a bombed building in Syria horrified the world. His name is Omran Daqneesh. He is 5. His home city of Aleppo has been under siege for four years. I considered that our collective Aleppo moment. When the conflict became crystallized in the […]
This will be our final Must Read Monday of 2016. Join us back here in January for more must-reads and the Christian worldview analysis of the headlines. Gatlinburg man who lost wife, 2 daughters in fire forgives accused teens-USATODAY Michael Reed lost his wife and two daughters in the Gatlinburg fires. He posted an open letter […]
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week, First Lady Michelle Obama unmasked our national political problem. Oprah asked, “Your husband’s administration, everything, was all about hope. Do you think that this administration achieved that?” Here is the response: Yes, I do. Because we feel the difference now. Now, we’re feeling what not having hope […]
It’s our responsibility as Christians to give what’s real this Christmas. The human memory is a mysterious thing. We can feel like a distant moment “happened only yesterday” but can’t remember what we ate for lunch. Or we can be certain we are recalling an event exactly as it happened, only to be find that our […]
Compassion: 145,000 Children Could Lose Sponsorship by Christmas— Christianity Today When India implemented new regulations governing foreign Non-governmental Organizations, it constricted how funds could enter the country. Despite months of work from interested organizations and lobbying by certain members of the United States government, India has not lifted the regulations, and as a result, 145,000 […]
Christmas is the time of year Christians have the home field advantage. Arguably the biggest global holiday of the year centers around the birth of one person: Jesus Christ. Jesus may be now be sharing the stage with a whole cast of characters from Santa Claus to Frosty to the Nutcracker but He is still […]
It’s always fun when science discovers something the Bible has proclaimed all along. The findings are detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the revelation is that there’s a stash of water deep within the earth. “Current estimates suggest that the deep Earth may hold as much water as all […]
Tim Keller Wants You to Stop Underestimating Christmas– The Gospel Coalition Keller writes Christmas is “the most unsentimental, realistic way of looking at life.” That statement is a long way from the usual Christmas movies we love watching this time of year. Christmas is about much more than magic. It is the incarnation of the […]