Dr. James Emery White Christian News Articles

Parents Shopping Kids on Instagram, Wake Up

Monday, March 11, 2024

A recent article in the New York Times detailed a deeply disturbing phenomenon. Titled “A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men,” it ran the following sub-heading: “Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.”

About All Those Mental Health Issues...

Thursday, March 7, 2024

First things first. Mental illness is real and needs compassion, concern and, when called for, treatment. For example, I have written about the importance of understanding the very real nature of depression and the importance of its treatment. Second things second. Not everything we are calling “mental health issues” are, well, mental health issues.

Voting Out of Fear

Monday, March 4, 2024

This is an election year. No, this isn’t a blog about who you should vote for. It is a blog about why we often vote the way we do... and shouldn’t.

Gen Z Ready to Tell Us How to Live

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Upon first hearing the results, it might make you want to roll your eyes: according to a survey conducted by the market research company OnePoll, 81% of Gen Z believe they can write self-help books. It takes a certain audacity to feel you can write a self-help book

#opinion

We All Need to Be Hybrid Now

Monday, February 26, 2024

According to the 2024 State of the Church Technology report from Pushpay, 91% of all churches are livestreaming their worship services. 90% are going further and employing a hybrid model of ministry which combines both in-person and virtual elements.

Life After Prison

Thursday, February 22, 2024

No matter what your feelings may be about those in prison, why is there so little concern for those who have been released? The bottom line is that the average person who is released from prison has no resources, no support, and not much of a plan. No wonder so many end up returning to a cell.

Jesus and Nationalism

Monday, February 19, 2024

We are coming up on Holy Week, which traditionally begins with Palm Sunday, marking the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. It’s a seemingly tame, innocuous day filled with symbolism but little significance. It would be easy to think of it as an event distant from the day’s headlines and debates.

40: God’s Number for Life Change (2024)

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the 40 days of Lent. For reasons unknown to us, the length of 40 – whether 40 days or 40 years – has been significant throughout biblical history.

The Real Love of Valentine’s Day

Monday, February 12, 2024

Wednesday is Valentine’s Day, marked by many with romantic dates, gifts of flowers and chocolates, and expressions of love to our significant other. Many forget that it is, more accurately, Saint Valentine’s Day (or the Feast of Saint Valentine). Saint Valentine of Rome was a third-century Roman saint who is commemorated on February 14, the day he was martyred and buried. It has been honored that way since A.D. 496.

The Rise and Rise of QAnon

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Talking about QAnon is not about politics. It is not about whether you plan to vote for Trump or Biden. It is about the way a set of ideas and sentiments are infiltrating the minds of those who claim to follow Christ, even when those ideas do not reflect the mind of Christ.