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Chloe Cole Speaks the Truth with Love in Congressional Hearing

Chloe Cole Speaks the Truth with Love in Congressional Hearing

Distressed by the onset of puberty, California teenager Chloe Cole was fast-tracked to a double mastectomy at age 15. Recently, on her 19th birthday, Chloe appeared before Congress, passionately describing the harm of so-called “trans-affirming” medicine, which is anything but.

After Chloe’s remarks, a mother who had transitioned her 18-year-old daughter told her story. Given a chance to respond, tears filled Chloe’s eyes, and she replied to the committee chairman:

Christians Don't Pray for Miracles as Often as We Should

Christians Don't Pray for Miracles as Often as We Should

I have witnessed miracles personally on occasion: bodies healed beyond medical or natural capacity, occurrences that have no logical or natural explanation, people radically transformed by God’s grace. Why, then, did I not immediately ask God to intervene miraculously by stopping the wildfires in Maui? If you didn’t pray for such a miracle, why didn’t you?

Which Theory of Evolution? Toppling the Idol of 'Settled Science'

Which Theory of Evolution? Toppling the Idol of 'Settled Science'

In 1973, evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that “nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution.” Almost 50 years later, an increasing number of scientists are asking whether evolution makes any sense in light of what we now know from biology.

Is Lebron James's 'I Promise School' a Failure?

Is Lebron James's 'I Promise School' a Failure?

C. S. Lewis once warned, “Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.”

In a world of instant reactions and echo chambers, we need that perspective now more than ever. Giving people the room to make mistakes, learn from them, and then improve takes a level of patience and understanding that is often lacking in our culture today. As Christians, we should be among those best positioned to offer such grace because we should be among those best positioned to understand how much grace God has shown us.

Marriage Is an Outdated Concept, Young Adults Say in New Poll

Marriage Is an Outdated Concept, Young Adults Say in New Poll

A significant minority of young adults who are in a relationship believe marriage is an “outdated” concept, according to a new survey of Millennials and Gen Zers that also found that an overwhelming majority nevertheless hope to get married.

'Live Your Truth' and Other Lies

'Live Your Truth' and Other Lies

In her new book, author and apologist Alisa Childers targets the lies that often masquerade as cultural proverbs today. In Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions That Make Us Anxious, Exhausted, and Self-ObsessedChilders offers just what the title promises. She exposes the bad ideas at the center of slogans we hear all the time.

Four Options When Storms Strike Your Soul

Four Options When Storms Strike Your Soul

Why should we submit every moment of every day to his Spirit? Why should we choose to live biblically in every circumstance we meet? Why should we pay a significant price to serve God and to share him with our antagonistic culture?

Here’s a simple fact I’d like us to contemplate today: we experience God’s transforming power to the degree that we depend upon him.

Are Our Summer Mission Trips Doing More Harm Than Good?

Are Our Summer Mission Trips Doing More Harm Than Good?

The flights are booked. The bags are packed. Last-minute preparations have been made. With a desire to serve others, it’s that time of year when Christians across the country are going on summer short-term mission trips. But more and more of us are pausing ahead of these trips to ask one important question: How effective are short-term mission trips, really?

The answer is clear. When done in the right way, a short-term mission trip can have tremendous benefits. But therein lies the issue — we haven’t always approached them correctly, especially when we consider what’s best for children.

How Howard Hendricks Taught Me the Importance of Mentorship

How Howard Hendricks Taught Me the Importance of Mentorship

With my daughter asking to go to the pool in one ear and Dr. Gene Getz's phone call in my other, I can remember that day like it was yesterday. As the phone call was being pushed to a close, these words came out of Getz’s mouth “Maina, you should write a book on the life of Dr. Hendricks.”

Those words would lead to a two-year study on the importance of mentorship, a book contract and endless conversations on how the life of one man impacted Christian leaders such as Dr. Tony Evans, Jennie Allen, Andy Stanley, Bruce Wilkerson and more.

Why Mr. Rogers Taught Children the Difference Between Make-Believe and Reality

Why Mr. Rogers Taught Children the Difference Between Make-Believe and Reality

Recently, Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old young woman who was pressured to undergo transgender surgeries, challenged a social media video by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the populist astronomer and science personality. Although a legitimate astrophysicist, Dr. Tyson’s public proclamations and videos are not always from his area of scientific expertise. In fact, they aren’t always scientific.

In this particular video, Tyson asserted, in favor of gender ideology, that “no matter my chromosomes today, I feel 80% female, 20% male. I’m going to put on makeup. I’m gonna do it. Tomorrow, I might feel 80% male.” Seemingly to Dr. Tyson, the ability of people of any gender to feel a particular way and then to put on makeup accordingly proves that “the XX/XY chromosomes are insufficient because when we wake up in the morning, we exaggerate whatever feature we want to portray the gender of our choice.” Dr. Tyson continued in a blatantly non-scientific statement, “What business is it of yours to require that I fulfill your inability to think of gender on a spectrum?”

In her reply, Chloe Cole interspersed video of herself confronting his bizarre claims.