Yes, the church needs to talk more about sex. But pastors may need to talk about it less. Evangelical attitudes toward sex are undergoing a new round of scrutiny prompted by the announcement by pastor Ed Young that he and his wife would be hosting a 24-hour “bed in” on the roof of his Dallas …
Social media can be a dark and divisive place. That doesn’t mean we should simply withdraw. Reading Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now wasn’t the first time I’ve been advised to delete my accounts. I’ve been told this many times before, less out of concern for my emotional safety …
The Bible’s blueprint for paradise lowers the awe-inspiring to the everyday. What does heaven look like? What are we meant to understand about this coming kingdom from the descriptions in the Bible? Reading about heaven in the Bible can be confusing—so confusing that we are tempted to look elsewhere to firm up our ideas on …
A Christian call to reject polarizing public discourse. In the Western world of 2018, there is a hard standoff on every (ideological) street corner: progressive versus populist, millennial versus baby boomer, religious versus secular, conservative versus liberal, globalist versus patriot, and so on. Our age, of course, is not unique in being riven by division. …
Three sociologists look at the impact of this growing body of believers on the American church. According to sociologists Mark Mulder, Aida Ramos, and Gerardo Marti, Latino Protestants are a force to be reckoned with. They “are simply more religiously active” than their Latino Catholic or white or black Protestant counterparts. They are “more actively …
President Trump’s appeal to fear ignores that Christians seek first the Kingdom, not political favors. In a Monday meeting with evangelical leaders at the White House, President Trump reportedly warned of violence against conservative Christians if the GOP loses in November. Evangelicals, he said, were “one election away from losing everything.” As evangelicals, we would …
Why Christians should worry less about protecting their information and think more about giving it away. Alexa is my savior. The digital voice assistant from Amazon hears me shoulder my way into the kitchen back door, arms loaded with bags and keys jangling from a pinkie. “Alexa, turn on the lights!” I command with a …
Protestants can both learn from and minister to this community during a very harrowing season. The Catholic world is reeling after a devastating month of sexual abuse revelations. At the beginning of August, a Pennsylvania grand jury reported that hundreds of priests abused at least 1,000 children since the 1940s and that dozens of church …
But our failures as parents and spouses, as sons and daughters, ultimately point the way to something better. As a husband and father of five boys, Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, is a bona fide family man. His latest book, The Storm-Tossed Family: How the …
Where there may be room for GMOs and other modern agriculture in the New Jerusalem. Ross Smith grew up knowing he would farm. Born to a fifth-generation farmer in northern Indiana, Smith in his younger years worked alongside his dad and grandfather. He studied agricultural economics at Purdue University and learned about the technological advancements …