John Stonestreet & Shane Morris

• 'Technoshamanism': Why a Post-Christian Future Is Still Religious Thursday, May 4, 2023
  In the history of the world, the wholesale rejections of the supernatural is a quirk of Western secularism. At the same time, it will not ultimately survive the human longing for transcendence and...
• Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Slippery Slope, It's a Moral Cliff Wednesday, February 9, 2022
  We should consider the consequences for societies that leap into medical suicide with nothing but good intentions.
• Faithfully Different Monday, February 7, 2022
  In an interview with Shane Morris on the Upstream podcast, Natasha Crain pointed to the recent results of the American Worldview Inventory, conducted by George Barna and Arizona Christian...
• A Conservatism without Marriage & Family Is No Conservatism at All Wednesday, January 26, 2022
  Any political vision that treats marriage and family as optional or fungible, even if it goes by the label “conservative,” is destined to fail. This isn’t a matter of updating our definitions. If...
• Passing on the Faith: What a Parent Does Plays an Essential Role in Their Child’s Spiritual Health Tuesday, January 25, 2022
  How people within a cultural setting think about and practice spirituality is interrelated. Statistically, the most significant relationship, by far, for cultivating spiritual belief and commitment...
• Prenatal Testing, False Positives, and Abortion Wednesday, January 19, 2022
  Our society has become a real-life version of the movie, Gattaca, in which a “perfect” society is built, not by eliminating defects, but by eliminating people.
• God (Still) Loves His World Wednesday, January 12, 2022
  Understanding God’s posture to His created world was a central part of the thought and work of a 20th-century theologian whom every Christian should know. Herman Bavinck, who died a century ago,...
• God Continues to Work Behind Bars Friday, January 7, 2022
  God has a long history of working inside prisons. The very first book of the Bible describes how God granted Joseph favor with a prison warden, something that eventually led to the saving of his...
• What are Miracles and How Can We Know? Tuesday, January 4, 2022
  Recently, Dr. Moreland discussed his book A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ with Shane Morris for the Upstream Podcast....
• Intelligent Design without God? Wednesday, December 15, 2021
  For example, among the attempts to explain the Big Bang and account for our shockingly life-friendly cosmos were complicated ideas with fancy names such as vacuum fluctuation, cyclic contraction...
• The Blurred Lines of the Sexual Revolution Monday, November 22, 2021
  As the Wall Street Journal notes, quoting historian Tom Holland, “What’s happening with #MeToo is essentially an attempt to reimpose…Christian sexual morality.” Having witnessed the destruction of...
• 'Luxury Beliefs' Are Status Symbols for Cultural Elites More than Blueprints for How to Live Monday, November 15, 2021
  According to one Cambridge academic, permissive attitudes about sex, marriage, drugs, and religion are “luxury beliefs; more status symbols for cultural elites than blueprints for the way they...
• The Abolition of Man is Humanity in the Trenches Friday, October 22, 2021
  C.S. Lewis knew that without morality, human beings act less than human. Now more than ever, it’s a message we need to hear.
• Meeting Christ in Aslan Wednesday, October 20, 2021
  The appeal of The Chronicles comes back to a single character. Aslan, the Great Lion, who calls the children into Narnia, plays the central role in each adventure. It’s not exactly correct to call...
• Gratitude Is Good for You … Thursday, October 14, 2021
  Practicing gratitude is extremely good for humans, even those who don’t believe in God. But for Christians, gratitude is no mere mental health strategy. It’s a profound way of telling the truth: to...
• Experts Are Challenging the Transgender Craze Monday, October 11, 2021
  Scientific advances are based on self-correction, criticism, and dissent. This is vital for fixing bad theories and identifying mistaken assumptions. On the transgender issue, more than any other...
• Relationship Minimalism? Why Downsizing Other People Won't Make You Happy Tuesday, September 28, 2021
  According to a recent piece by Sarah Logan in The Guardian, a growing number of young people are practicing “relationship minimalism.” Inspired by home organizing coaches like Marie Kondo, these...
• The Church's Answer to Suicide Monday, September 20, 2021
  America’s pandemic of despair shows up most obviously in the mounting number of suicide and suicide attempts. According to the Centers for Disease Control, suicide rates are higher today than at...