We honor a brother who loved Christ and loved this country enough to take both loves into the hard places — campuses, cameras, conversations most of us avoid. He spoke the gospel, truth, and freedom in the public square when much of the church treated that square as someone else’s
Building on the previous post, this reflection focuses on the practical implication for America’s 250th anniversary. The founders repeatedly emphasized that a free republic cannot survive without a virtuous and self-governing people. This was not generic moralism. It was rooted in a deeply biblical conviction: because every person is made
In these tumultuous times, we find two groups of people pointing the culture at large to the God of the Bible. Of course, we predictably find the church in all her many iterations pointing people to God. The second group is much more surprising and rather unexpected. Christian believers are
The Apostle Peter, in his first epistle, writes to the persecuted church, believers suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ at the hands of Roman authorities and the pagan world. Peter acknowledges that suffering and instructs them how to deal with it in a redemptive way. The Apostle Paul, in
The United States is being torn apart by charges of racism. You cannot surf the internet, watch the news, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper without encountering claims of racism. But the definition of racism has changed and today, it’s highly emotive and politicized. We used to think
Image by Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC 4.0 Former General Attorney Bill Barr recently gave a devastating analysis of public-school education in America, coupled with a radical solution; families with school-age children would do well to heed his counsel. More on that below. But Barr was not the first to publicly
Compassion as practiced by the early church serves as a contrast to that of the Romans and even the Jews at that time. Very often, the Jews at the time of Christ were merciless to sinners and Gentiles. Their law forbid helping a Gentile mother and her child even in
Three questions interweave in ways that may not be immediately evident: they all relate to the moral universe. Why are the Jews God’s chosen people? Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why have Jews been so persecuted throughout history? I have pondered these questions much of my adult
Courage in Tiananmen Square I had never felt more alive than the day I stood with a group of pro-life protesters before a police station in Tucson, Arizona, hands cuffed behind my back. About a hundred of us—mostly Christians—had violated the law to protect the lives of innocent, preborn babies
The Divided States of America desperately needs people who will speak the truth in love. Francis Schaeffer spoke prophetically almost a half century ago about the worldview struggle and division we are experiencing in the US. These two [Christian vs. naturalistic] worldviews stand as totals in complete antithesis to each
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