The Very Alien Question of Marriage (from The Stream’s Pastors’ Corner)
(Also published at The Stream.) What is marriage? What is it for? Why does marriage matter? Ten years ago, those were the hottest questions on the...
March 25, 2022
Everybody Wants a Piece of Jesus
Everyone wants a piece of Jesus. Major religions want to claim him for their own. And political and social activists try to make him stand for...
May 22, 2018
Your Church: Ready and Equipped for What’s Coming?
We’re teetering on the edge of persecution, near a tipping point. It might never happen, but on the other hand it could start at any moment....
September 6, 2017
Should Churches “Keep the Cookies on the Lower Shelf”?
“I try to keep the cookies on the lower shelf.” I keep hearing pastors saying that. It bothers me. Oh, I get it to a certain extent …
September 3, 2017
Who’s Playing God Here? (5 Bad Reasons to Oppose the Sanctity of Human Life Bill)
From The Stream: Ken Burrows, writing for the very secular site TheHumanist, wants to warn us of dangers lurking in the proposed Sanctity of Human Life Act. He thinks...
September 1, 2017
Change History Again by Outthinking Our Opponents
From The Stream: Does it feel strange to find Christianity under attack the way it is these days? We see history changing before our eyes, and...
August 28, 2017
Denouncing Evil by Standing for Good
From The Stream: We could take time to map out the racism and oppression we denounce, defining them with analytic precision. That wouldn’t make Balmer [at...
August 24, 2017
One Nation Looking Upward at God’s Glory
From The Stream: My wife said it well: “He probably thought it was cute.” Neither of us caught the NBC news reporter’s name, but we did hear how he...
August 22, 2017
We’re Accelerating Toward Persecution. Hold On To Joy!
With this post I will (at last) echo some of my own writing at The Stream here at Thinking Christian. If there’s a tipping point coming soon for Christians...
August 21, 2017
