12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You
“With my phone, I find myself always teetering between useful efficiency and meaningless habit.”
The Deconstruction of Christianity
“Faithfulness to God comes at a cost. It’s easier to submit to societal opinions than to stand on scriptural truth.”
A Change of Affection
“I can’t explain all the mechanics of this radical transformation. I just know that no one can be in the very presence of the living God and remain the same.”
Reforming Criminal Justice
“How would we design the justice system if we did not know our lot in life and thus did not know whether we were more likely to be a crime victim or a criminal defendant?”
Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age
“God used the offense of God’s word for the good of my soul.”
Reclaiming Masculinity
“I want to argue that there’s a difference between that definition of ‘traditional masculinity’ and what we could call ‘biblical masculinity.’”
Pride Month Reading
A list of books to read during Pride Month.
Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World
“Someone will be teaching your kids about their souls and their bodies. Make sure it’s you.”
The War Against Boys
“The current plight of boys and young men is, in fact, a women’s issue. Those boys are our sons; they are the people with whom our daughters will build a future. If our boys are in trouble, so are we all.”
Mama Bear Apologetics Guide to Sexuality
Our kids are being desensitized, song by song, cartoon by cartoon, numbed to the point where immorality feels like no big deal.
Live Your Truth (and Other Lies)
“You are not enough, but when your trust is placed in Jesus, his enough-ness is transferred to you”.
Jesus Through the Eyes of Women
When we see Jesus through the eyes of women in Scripture we find the Bible is not anti-women but was revolutionary in its treatment of women.
Talking About Race
“Friends, just because we’re honest, doesn’t mean we’re edifying; just because we’re hurt, doesn’t mean we’re right.”
Mama Bear Apologetics
I think everyone should read this book. And probably own it. And also give it to all your friends.
The Porn Problem
“Porn is the equivalent of burning a priceless Stradivarius violin for a few moments of warmth, and missing out on a lifetime of beautiful, glorious music.”
Why God Makes Sense in a World that Doesn’t
“Which is telling us a better story— a story that better accounts for the strangeness, the incompleteness, the brokenness, and the beauty of our world?”
A Biblical Case Against Theistic Evolution
Can we just agree to disagree or do differing views on evolution actually matter?
Talking Back to Purity Culture
“Too often, purity rhetoric hyperfocuses on what we should and shouldn’t do instead of what Christ has already done. It neglects the gospel and places personal striving above the finished work of Christ.”
Discrimination and Disparities
“Contrary to much that has been said, disparities in socioeconomic outcomes are neither improbable from a theoretical standpoint nor uncommon from an empirical standpoint.”
Is God Anti-Gay?
“God is against who all of us are by nature… But he loves us enough to carry our burden, take our place, clean us up, make us whole, and unite us forever to himself.”