Life & Family
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When Every Desire Becomes An Identity – And Every Identity Demands Protection
Another boundary in America’s sexual revolution quietly moved this week. Seattle’s City Council unanimously passed legislation expanding the city’s civil-rights protections to encompass additional sexual orientations, gender identities and people involved in consensual relationships with multiple partners. The legislation explicitly adds pansexuality and asexuality to…
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2027: The Perfect Storm Is Already Forming
Most Americans aren’t thinking about sulfuric acid, phosphate fertilizer, Saudi oil pipelines or water levels on major shipping routes when they walk through the grocery store. But perhaps they should be. A remarkable collection of problems is developing across the systems that produce and transport…
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When Churches Become Mosques: The Changing Face Of An American City
Drive through parts of Warren, Michigan, and you can see America’s religious transformation written into the buildings themselves. A Lutheran church that stood for more than 80 years is now the Al Ihsaan Islamic Center. The cross that once topped its steeple is gone. A…
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The Boys Are Coming Back To Church – But Where Are The Girls Going?
For decades, American churches wrestled with a familiar problem: Where are the men? Women filled the pews, volunteered in ministries, brought the children and often carried much of the spiritual life of the family. Men consistently lagged behind in church attendance and religious participation. Something…
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The Inclusive Bible: When ‘Son Of God’ Becomes Too Offensive For Church
The Inclusive Bible: When ‘Son Of God’ Becomes Too Offensive For Church A new member walks to the front of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church near Austin, Texas. Waiting for him is a gift from the congregation: a Bible. But not just any Bible.
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The UN Wants The Keys To AI – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Artificial intelligence may become the most powerful information technology humanity has ever created. It will increasingly determine what people read, what children learn, how governments operate and, perhaps most importantly, what billions of people believe to be true. So there is a question just as…
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When The Patient Cannot Say Yes: The Next Frontier Of Euthanasia
For years, euthanasia and assisted suicide have been defended around one overriding principle: choice. A competent adult suffering from an incurable condition should be permitted, advocates argued, to decide when his or her suffering has become unbearable. Whether one agreed with that argument or not,…
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The Winter Fuel Crisis Is Building – And America Won’t Be Immune
Winter hasn’t arrived yet, but the warning signs are already flashing. Diesel has climbed above $6 a gallon in the United States. Heating-oil customers are being warned to prepare for dramatically higher bills. Fuel shortages and rationing are appearing overseas. Factories are being disrupted. Transportation…
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Netflix’s Narnia Has A New Aslan – And Christians Are Not Happy
For more than seventy years, readers of C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia have understood exactly who Aslan is supposed to represent. He is not merely a magical talking lion. He is not simply the wise ruler of a fantasy kingdom. And he is certainly not…
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A Bizarre Alliance: When The Church Pulpit Becomes A Platform For Queer Islam
Christianity and Islam disagree about some of the most fundamental questions imaginable. Who is Jesus Christ? Is He God incarnate? Did He die on the cross? Did He rise from the dead? Is salvation found through Him alone? Yet inside the modern progressive religious movement,…
