• Christianity,  News

    The Remarkable Conversion of Molly Worthen

    I cannot recommend highly enough Collin Hansen’s interview with historian and journalist Molly Worthen (watch or listen below). I listened to it this morning, and it is one of the most encouraging testimonies that I have ever heard. Worthen is a historian at the University of North Carolina and a journalist who has written extensively and sometimes critically of evangelicalism. In this interview, however, Worthen shares how she came to Christ last year after being a skeptic for virtually her whole life. It is really a remarkable story. It is so easy to become cynical. Even for Christians, there is a powerful temptation to let the darkness of our time…

  • News,  Transgenderism

    Teachers Forced to Conceal Students’ Gender Transition from Parents

    Last Fall, I counseled briefly with a young school teacher in California. He had just finished his teacher in-service training for the new school year. Administrators instructed all teachers that—according to state law—all teachers must affirm the gender transitions of their students. That means using their preferred pronouns and transgender names and allowing them to use the bathroom of their choice. Even worse, the state also requires teachers to conceal a child’s gender transition from his parents. If a teacher ever talks to a parent, he must deceive the parents by using the child’s birthname and pronouns to conceal from the parents what their child is doing at school. Administrators…

  • Christianity,  Homosexuality,  News

    Heterodoxy in the Rectory: The Blessing of Gay Spouses in the Church of England

    How would you feel if your denomination seized your church building and sold it to a mosque as a result of your biblical stance on sexuality? That is exactly what happened to Matt Kennedy, the Rector of  the Church of the Good Shepherd in Binghampton, New York. Rev. Kennedy joins us on the CBMW Podcast today to answer our questions about what it cost him and his family to be faithful to the Bible’s teaching about homosexuality and marriage. He also helps us to understand the current controversy within the worldwide Anglican communion over the Church of England’s decision to bless same-sex spouses. This is a really fascinating conversation, and…

  • Christianity,  News

    An Ecclesiastical Shot Heard Round the World

    No doubt many of you have already read about the Church of England’s recent decision to bless same-sex marriages. The orthodox leaders of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) have responded with a declaration that is nothing less than an ecclesiastical shot heard round the world. These leaders are largely from Africa, although other regions are also represented. They have set forth a series of resolutions that effectively declare their independence from the heterodox Church of England. Rather than explain it, I will let you read the powerful declaration in their own words: As the Church of England has departed from the historic faith passed down from the…

  • Christianity,  News

    Some Thoughts on the Asbury Revival

    Perhaps you have heard or read by now reports about a revival taking place on the campus of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. A campus chapel service on Wednesday did not end at its appointed time but rather carried on for days on end. Students lingered and prayed and repented and worshipped. Students from surrounding universities and parents began arriving to experience what appears to have been a powerful move of the Spirit. Traffic jams accumulated in Wilmore as countless others came to Asbury to see what was happening. I know that people of a more Calvinistic bent tend to be reflexively skeptical about such reports. After all, haven’t we…

  • Culture,  News,  Personal

    Farewell, Charlie Brown Christmas

    “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was an annual fixture of my childhood. For me, this special and “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer” were two highlights of the Christmas season. Those were the days when there were only three broadcast channels and before people had VCR’s. You couldn’t record it to watch at your leisure. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” came on once a year, and if you missed it, you’d have to wait an entire year for another opportunity to see it. You had to “check your local listings” to know when it would be on, and then you made an appointment to plant yourself in front of the television to watch the…

  • Abortion,  News

    Not One Solitary Mention of the Child Being Killed

    The Wall Street Journal has an opinion piece by Erica Komisar about “The Human Cost of Restricting Abortion.” It’s not a pro-life piece, but I’m still astonished by the argument. Komisar writes: As lawmakers consider enacting restrictions on abortion, they should be mindful of the consequences. Unwanted pregnancies become unwanted children, and unwanted children are prone to depression, anxiety, addiction and other social and emotional disorders. That’s especially true when their mothers are young and immature, unable to handle the responsibilities of parenthood… If a mother feels forced to bring a child into the world, the child will bear the brunt of her resentment. Children who are neglected and unloved…

  • Christianity,  Culture,  Homosexuality,  News,  Transgenderism

    Parents, Don’t Be Gaslighted by Biased News Reports

    One of the hardest things to read today are biased news reports aimed at gaslighting parents who are concerned about LGBT indoctrination at public schools. Case in point: A headline in The Washington Post yesterday reads “Claim that sex ed ‘grooms’ kids jolted Nebraska politics a year before it swept the nation.” The story goes on to describe the efforts of parents in Nebraska to push back against the state’s efforts to introduce LGBT propaganda into their children’s public school curriculum. Lest you think this an unbiased report on a bellwether social issue in Nebraska, the subtitle reads: The unsubstantiated claim led to a backlash against sex ed that helped…

  • Christianity,  Culture,  Homosexuality,  News

    Sexual Immorality Driving a World Health Emergency

    Rod Dreher wrote yesterday about the hypocrisy of public health authorities in 2020 who mandated lockdowns for COVID but who made exceptions for Black Lives Matter protests. Our ruling class’s inconsistency during the summer of 2020 was obviously not being driven by hard science but by social concerns. If you belonged to a favored group (like a BLM protest), then you were allowed to gather. If you belonged to a disfavored group (like a church trying to gather for worship), you were not allowed to gather. While churches were being harassed by local governments for continuing to meet, enormous BLM protests continued apace. The entire spectacle demonstrated in spades that…

  • Christianity,  News

    Study Denies That Depression Is Caused by Chemical Imbalance in the Brain

    Science Daily reported yesterday on a new study calling into question long-standing views about what causes depression. The study was conducted by scientists at the University College London. Science Daily reports: After decades of study, there remains no clear evidence that serotonin levels or serotonin activity are responsible for depression… Lead author Professor Joanna Moncrieff, a Professor of Psychiatry at UCL and a consultant psychiatrist at North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), said: “It is always difficult to prove a negative, but I think we can safely say that after a vast amount of research conducted over several decades, there is no convincing evidence that depression is caused by…