As Christians, our hope and our faith — all of it — is supposed to be in Christ. Everything else — our behaviors, our desires, our perspective — flows from that. It’s not Jesus and … that gives us security. It’s just Jesus. This is important because when things get hard — and I mean truly hard — people’s real... Continue Reading

Hillsong United is among the most deceitful and subversive worship music movements. Hillsong music is popular, and is played throughout even some of the most theologically solid churches, deceptively luring people away from doctrinal truth and into an experiential form of idolatry that removes Jesus as the sole object of worship, and places the emphasis... Continue Reading

“Good scientists follow the data where they lead. They are constantly open to alternatives and remain mindful of scientific and intellectual rigor. To dismiss this scientific report as merely political is to misread it—not only cynically but unscientifically.”   The Fall 2016 edition of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society consists of... Continue Reading

“Israeli security officials arrested the operations manager of World Vision’s Gaza branch, Mohammed El Halabi, on June 15 at the Israeli-Gaza border before formally charging him on August 4 with providing material support to Hamas in the range of tens of millions of dollars over the course of several years, allegedly from World Vision’s budget.”... Continue Reading

‘Despite pushback from Republicans, who have expressed concerns about admitting those from Syria and Iraq, religious groups continue to work in tandem with agencies to place individuals in their states.”   Despite the heated opposition of the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and more than 30 state governors, conservative churches are welcoming Syrian refugees displaced... Continue Reading

Feldblum and other LGBT activists have historically been clear that sexual liberty would trump religious freedom. And for more than a decade some religious believers have warned that we should take them at their word when the activists said that “nondiscrimination” laws would require discarding Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom.   The Background: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent, bipartisan... Continue Reading

What we need is someone who follows the practice and teachings of Jesus. Someone who knows that all human beings are equally valuable, not because they have been on an equality and diversity course but because they know how Christ values people and that all humans are created equal by God. Someone who doesn’t live... Continue Reading

“The penalties for violating the religious restrictions are draconian. The law carries a fine of up to nearly $800 for individuals and over $15,000 for organizations who violate the rules. Foreign visitors, such as missionaries, can be immediately deported.”   Russia recently imposed new restrictions on religious groups outside the Russian Orthodox Church. Although some... Continue Reading

“Now, at the most basic level, microaggressions certainly exist and can certainly be hurtful — especially, it seems, for students of color on predominantly or traditionally white campuses. Students, particularly those for whom the diversity of their college campus is novel, really do say dumb things to one another.”   “Microaggressions,” usually defined as inadvertently... Continue Reading

“So what is it? A screw that proves that extraterrestrial life was present on Earth millions of years ago? Is this screw the remains of a extraterrestrial vehicle? Or is there a possibility that it might just be evidence of ancient civilizations in the past that possessed very advanced technology?”   There are numerous archaeological... Continue Reading