The new year is now well underway, but what are the issues Christians need to be prepared for in 2020?
The new year is now well underway, but what are the issues Christians need to be prepared for in 2020?
The new film A Hidden Life is being called “the best evocation of the gospel ever put to film” by critic Rod Dreher, the senior editor at the American Conservative and audiences may be inclined to agree.
Promoting entrepreneurship in struggling communities is a laudable goal, but you have to question the wisdom of infusing a community already “disproportionately impacted” by the war on drugs with state-subsidized drug dealers. Encouraging and incentivizing residents to use marijuana is the last thing these communities need, particularly from the state.
One of the biggest problems American families used to face was having overly busy schedules. Now, smartphones and screentime have become one of the family's new struggle.
Thirteen years ago, Chinese Pastor Wang Yi visited the White House to discuss the state of religious freedom in China with then-president George W. Bush. As 2019 came to a close, Wang was sentenced to nine years in prison for simply sharing the gospel illustrating the peril religious minorities in China face every day.
We are only eight days into 2020, and the news is already bleak. How is it then, that one reads the news from a Christian point-of-view.
“Taking out the architect of the Islamic Republic’s decades-long active campaign of violence against the United States and its allies, especially Israel, represents a tectonic shift in Middle Eastern politics,” the Hudson Institute’s Michael Doran asserted in a New York Times article.
I realize how delicate this is, and I’m grateful to have worked in places that have not had to deal with workplace sexual harassment or sexism. I am even more grateful that, as a husband, my wife communicates so well and works so hard to understand me. The problem is that culture-wide, we can’t seem to decide what consent is.
An oft-repeated but potentially misguided critique of Christians by Christians is that we are better known for what we are against than what we are for.
