Seriously Unserious
You can learn a lot about your culture by what it mocks. Mockery is a great way to teach what is to be avoided and despised. Scorn also has the advantage of avoiding explanations or argumentation. The group of laughing scoffers don’t offer reasons for why they point and laugh – it’s just assumed that…
A Baptist, Fundamentalist, Election Post-Mortem
All the hype is over, all the counting is done—except for Arizona which will probably still be counting when the next election rolls around. How should we feel about what happened in the 2024 election? Most importantly we must remember that our hope is not in political candidates or in secular leaders. It is better to…
Podcast – Interview 52: 2024 Position Statements and “Why Was God Angry at Balaam?” (Dave Shumate)
I’m talking to some of our men who wrote articles for the September/October 2024 FrontLine magazine. The subject of the magazine was, “The Rapture.” Some of our interviews are with authors dealing directly with the theme of the magazine, but for this interview, I want to do something a little different. In each issue of…
Good Reminders from God’s Word about a Nation’s Leaders
Let it out—a four-year sigh of relief—another presidential election is over. For Christians, it was patently obvious that the winning candidate was friendlier to Christianity than the other. At his rallies, there were chants of “Christ is King!” Whatever the motivations for this chant, we can be thankful that our country has a measure of…
The Bread and the Cup: Beholding Glory
Many Christians view the Lord’s Supper as little more than a ritual. It’s something they do, but not with much understanding. This article is intended to help Christians think more biblically about the Lord’s Supper and to do what they do with greater understanding and joy. The Lord’s Supper is a visible activity Jesus commanded.…
Design: Does Evolution Care about You?
“Once you’ve reproduced, evolution doesn’t care about you anymore.”1 The BBC podcast, In Our Time, is one I listen to weekly. The host, Melvin Bragg is a BBC radio presenter of long standing. The programme usually features three guests who are experts in the field under discussion, whether it be music, literature, history, science, or…
Interesting Headlines From Around the World
In The News
Muslim vigilantes colluding with authorities to entrap Christians | World
Muslim vigilante groups are working with federal authorities to lure young people into sharing blasphemous content on social media in order to put them behind bars, according to an investigation by Pakistan’s National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR). A steep increase in blasphemy cases this year, many of them filed against Christians and other religious…
ANDREAS KÖSTENBERGER Joins BJU Seminary Faculty
AWARD-WINNING NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR, ADVANCING 500x5x5 VISION TO EQUIP PASTORS THROUGH UNCOMPROMISED, NEXT-LEVEL TEACHING BJU Seminary today announced that award-winning New Testament scholar and author Dr. Andreas Köstenberger will join its faculty, the latest milestone in the Seminary’s 500 x 5 x 5 vision to equip pastors through uncompromised, next-level teaching in a time of historic challenge to…
Apathy Among Christian Voters Could Be ‘Gamechanger’ in 2024 Election – Arizona Christian University
Barna’s latest research shows that only 51% of all faith voters are likely to vote in November. That means a full 104 million faith voters are unlikely to vote this election—including 41 million born-again Christians (defined by their beliefs regarding sin and salvation, not self-identification), 32 million regular Christian church attenders, and 14 million who…
Opinion Pieces
Christian conservatism and realism vs. Christian nationalism | Opinion
Nearly all self-identified Christian nationalists are Calvinists, typically Presbyterian like Wolfe, but often theologically Reformed Baptists. The latter can be confusing because traditional Baptists are most associated with religious liberty. Source: Christian conservatism and realism vs. Christian nationalism | Opinion
Should a Christian Skip Voting on November 5? | RealClearReligion
While the Bible does not speak directly to the issue of voting because elections didn’t exist in Bible times, a relevant passage that presents a principle to guide our contemporary context is 1 Timothy 2:1-2. When Paul gave Timothy instructions concerning how to lead the church, his first instruction was to urge church members to…
End Abortion: Rebrand Babies – The American Mind
But abortion is at its tiny beating heart not, I repeat not, a political issue. It never has been, actually. It is not solvable at the federal, or even state, level. It cannot be eradicated via executive order, law, or any craft we here possess. “Abortionist” is the second oldest profession after “prostitute.” Humans are…
Home & Family
Can a fighting spirit help conquer cancer? The limits of positivity for cancer patients | National Post
The idea that cancer progression or disease survival can be influenced by a positive attitude or by keeping up a “fighting spirit” isn’t grounded in scientific evidence, he and other doctors said. Anecdotally, however, “you’ll hear from people, ‘I beat this because I was positive, I had the right thinking, the right attitude,’” Isenberg-Grzeda said.…
The false promise of keeping a loved one ‘alive’ with A.I. grief bots | America Magazine
With the creation of A.I., anthropomorphized chatbots are one critical example of how the rapidly advancing technology is testing the limits of the human condition. Source: The false promise of keeping a loved one ‘alive’ with A.I. grief bots | America Magazine
It’s Not Politics: Fatherhood Decline Causing Rise of Religious Nones | RealClearReligion
But, in the years since we met this couple in the early 2000s, some sociologists, pundits, Christian thinkers, and church leaders have been persuaded by the idea that politics – particularly socially conservative politics – is playing a major role in driving the societal-wide decline in church participation. But the evidence doesn’t bear this out.…