Maria Baer & John Stonestreet

• Ballot Initiatives and the Silence of Churches Tuesday, November 10, 2020
  In addition to national, state and local leadership, voters also made decisions on over 100 ballot initiatives.
• The Problem with Eugenics Is Not Just Its Racist History. It's a Present Crisis. Friday, November 6, 2020
  In 2020, eugenicists may not be goose-stepping down the street in khaki uniforms, but they are not hard to find. While the word “eugenics” rightly offends our modern sensibilities, the eugenics...
• There’s No Such Thing as 'Safe Sex' for Kids Thursday, October 29, 2020
  Every available metric of social and mental health suggests that today’s kids are more depressed, more anxious, and feel more lonely and isolated than any generation before them. The last thing...
• Social Media Influenced or 'Influencers'? Thursday, October 22, 2020
  Franch lawmakers recently passed a bill setting up labor protections for child social media stars. While protecting kids is always laudable, it feels a bit strange calling this new law a “win.”
• The Ballot Initiatives of 2020: A Way for Christians to Love their Neighbors Thursday, October 8, 2020
  At the local level, our ballots decide more than just what taxes we pay, what resources schools receive, which roads are fixed, and the size of the police force. Today, our votes determine what...
• How to Say No to the Sexualization of Children Friday, October 2, 2020
  While the cultural indicators do point, I believe, to the further mainstreaming of pedophilia, a Christian worldview places even the most chaotic and distressing of moments within a larger Story....
• Sliding Toward Pedophilia: How the Sexual Revolution Progresses Wednesday, September 30, 2020
  Growing up in families without married parents, their well-being sacrificed for the sake of adult happiness, the kids have been the primary victims of our sexual experimentation. To cover our...
• This Isn’t a 'Lost Year' Thursday, September 17, 2020
  Two-thousand-and-twenty has been dubbed the "lost year" by some. But is there such a thing? This moment God has determined for us is challenging and chaotic. But He also determined us for this...
• Trafficking Children: How Did We Get Here? Thursday, September 10, 2020
  According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, child sex trafficking includes the “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining or advertising of a minor child...
• Abortion and Planned Parenthood Exposed Friday, September 4, 2020
  Everything good and right and true exists in the light, according to Ephesians 5. Evil tries to hide itself, and hidden evil flourishes. Everything the abortion industry tries to hide, including...
• Why We Support the Philadelphia Statement Tuesday, August 18, 2020
  “Freedom of expression is in crisis,” the Philadelphia Statement begins. “Truly open discourse—the debates, exchange of ideas, and arguments on which the health and flourishing of a democratic...
• How the Sperm Donation Industry Is Breaking Families Tuesday, August 11, 2020
  One problem with the sperm donation industry is that it dehumanizes men and children. The God-given ability to procreate is transformed into a crude financial transaction. As is the case with egg...
• Pastor or Parrot?: Lessons from the Coronavirus Pt. 11 Monday, August 3, 2020
  While we all must navigate the issues of race, sexuality and gender, criminal justice, political divisions, and other markers of our fallen human nature that dominate this cultural moment, pastors...
• Anti-Semitism, the Oldest Hatred Thursday, July 30, 2020
  Though anti-Semitism often doesn’t receive the attention or the unanimous condemnation that other forms of racism do, the Anti-Defamation League reported 2,100 incidents of assault, vandalism,...
• A Schooling Renaissance? Wednesday, July 29, 2020
  Many parents are saying that online school as it is now, is not working. Many are stuck juggling their own work-from-home jobs with their kids’ school needs. While some health and government...
• Planned Parenthood Should Cancel More Than Margaret Sanger Tuesday, July 28, 2020
  Removing Margaret Sanger’s name from a building in New York only actually means something in a time like ours, of low-stakes, symbolic gestures like erasing a name or disinviting a controversial...
• Don't Forget Those Still on Lockdown: Lessons from Coronavirus Part 10 Friday, June 26, 2020
  Though we may not be able to visit our senior neighbors right now, we can still serve them in creative ways.
• Tweeting Something Isn't Necessarily Doing Something Tuesday, June 9, 2020
  Blackout Tuesday is the latest example of what’s called “hashtag activism,” or internet advocacy. Now that social media operates within our culture like a public square, it only makes sense that...