Maria Baer & John Stonestreet

• Erasing Women Monday, December 20, 2021
  For years, movies, advertisements, and fashion designers featured tall, incredibly thin, and often photoshopped women in their productions. These unrealistic depictions of femininity are harmful to...
• The Problem with Mark Zuckerberg's 'Metaverse' Thursday, November 11, 2021
  A few weeks ago, the billionaire founder of Facebook announced the company’s new venture, “Meta.” The idea is to create a world of simulations in which people can, broadly, live their lives....
• Kids Are Given to Parents, Not the State Friday, November 5, 2021
  When a culture loses its grip on those foundations, the “experts” (or, as C.S. Lewis called them “conditioners”) step in. They loudly suggest that a college degree in education and a place on the...
• Sports Gambling Is a Bad Bet Thursday, October 21, 2021
  Today is what some call “the professional sports equinox,” the one night of the year where the NBA, NHL, MLB, and the NFL all have games. For sports fans, it’s like Christmas, Easter, Labor Day,...
• Abortion Is Not Necessary for Female Athletes to Succeed Monday, September 27, 2021
  More than 500 female athletes signed an Amicus brief last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against a Mississippi law that bans abortions after about 15 weeks of pregnancy.
• You Are What You Binge Thursday, September 23, 2021
  Pediatricians are growing increasingly concerned about an explosion in facial and vocal tics in teenagers, especially teenage girls. Doctors say that neurological scans of teenage girls with what...
• Why People Are Leaving Churches Tuesday, September 21, 2021
  Long gone are the days when believers automatically joined the church down the street. Even denominational loyalties, theological convictions, and worship styles are not as important as they used...
• Our Way with Words Thursday, September 16, 2021
  Without God, there is no meaning, not in language, or art, or in reality itself. Christians, because our worldview begins not only with God but with a God who communicates, are far more in the...
• Culture Shifts in Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic Thursday, August 26, 2021
  For the Christian, there are immovable Biblical principles that should mark and form the structures of our lives. These should not be moved, edited, or altered by cultural shifts.
• What's 'Good Art,' Anyway? Wednesday, August 11, 2021
  Sometimes Christians think of “culture” as all the “bad” stuff “out there.” But culture is simply what humans do with the world. When God told Adam and Eve to fill the Earth and subdue it, He was...
• The God Committee and Our Call to Play God Thursday, July 22, 2021
  Our culture often makes the mistake of asking if we can do something before asking if we should and then determining that if we can do something, that’s all the reason we need to know that we...
• Is God Really on the Throne during Revolutions and Collapsed Buildings? Friday, July 16, 2021
  Some things in this world are really bad, other things are really good. Ruling over it all, still on His throne, Christ is renewing our hearts and minds to make His glory our greatest pleasure and...
• What the Church Gave Alcoholics Anonymous and What it Should Offer Again Thursday, July 15, 2021
  Unconditional intimacy is the natural outgrowth of groups whose members don’t have to be convinced they’re unlovable sometimes, or often. When people walk into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, they...
• Your Body, Whose Choice? Thursday, June 17, 2021
  The very concept of “bodily autonomy” was originally a Christian contribution to an often cruel and barbaric world. Far from suggesting that our bodies are mere heaps of matter for us to do with...
• Politics Makes a Lousy Worldview Thursday, June 10, 2021
  Our politics today is merely a show, a reality show that doesn’t give us the reality about us, or about the world. And let’s be honest, the show is getting embarrassing. On the other hand, the way...
• Kids, COVID-19, and Preparing for Storms Friday, June 4, 2021
  While everyone was “flying blind” at the beginning of the pandemic, it is becoming more and more clear that, in the noble interest of protecting bodies, many public officials neglected to...
• How to Stay When the World Says Leave Wednesday, May 12, 2021
  The Church is not above our critique, of course, but too many who embrace the habit of criticizing her soon find themselves as no longer part of her. Make no mistake, the Church is Christ’s bride....
• Leave Loud, Blaming Churches Tuesday, May 11, 2021
  According to a new Gallup poll, the number of Americans who belong to a church, synagogue or mosque has fallen below 50 percent for the first time since 1937. Moreover, many of the people who have...