Criminal dramas are becoming more popular today, but at what cost to a Christian’s conscience? As a middle school girl, I enjoyed watching criminal dramas with my mom—especially Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. My father, however, believed such media ultimately created the kind of criminals they depicted. And while I didn’t become a criminal,…
Today’s resources aim to offer reassurance instead of adding to the weight parents already feel. A majority of mothers with kids at home today—69 percent in a new survey from Barna Group—say they struggle to “feel like they are enough” as a mother. Only 19 percent said that they feel they are “able to contribute…
How the next generation’s mental health crisis might recall the timeless values of wandering and wayfinding. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Most people know that something is going badly awry with the next generation. We know this not because older people are, as always, complaining about how the morals and…
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” probes the unacknowledged darkness in every human heart. Lament is at the heart of Killers of the Flower Moon, the latest film from director Martin Scorsese, which premieres on Apple TV+ and in theaters on Friday, October 20. The subject may seem well-worn—a true-life story of a murder…
Christians must care for both Israeli and Palestinian victims of war—and that means actively rejecting hatred of the Jewish people. One day after Hamas’s Simchat Torah massacres in Israel, crowds gathered at a rally in Times Square promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America. “Our resistance stormed illegal settlements,” shouted one speaker, “and paraglided across…
The horror of terrorism reminds us anew of how impossible it feels to love our enemies. Violence, we are told, followed so closely the origin of human evil as to be almost indistinguishable. For soon after Adam’s sin, violence appears—first in the skin taken from animals (Gen. 3:21), then in the murder of a brother…
‘The last enemy to be destroyed is death,’ and that enemy is insurgent in the Israel-Hamas war. Less than a week into the Israel-Hamas war, the casualty count is already in the thousands. Around 1,300 people have been killed by Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel as of this writing, with another 1,300 killed by retaliatory…
Jackie Hill Perry, Sean McDowell, and others explain why they appear alongside speakers with different stances and when they’d refuse to join a lineup. These days, Christian speakers have to carefully consider not just what they say—but those they say it alongside. From packed-stadium conferences and denominational events to church retreats and ministry webinars, evangelical…
A Palestinian Christian’s view of this week’s tragedy in Israel—and how to address the roots of the problem. This article is published pseudonymously for the author’s safety. Israel has suffered a 9/11-scale attack by the Islamic Resistance Movement, commonly known as Hamas, which has devastated Jews and Palestinians alike. No words can describe the sadness…
Israelis and Palestinians are equally beloved of God. But there’s no moral ambiguity about the genocidal evil of Hamas. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes certain moments in history reveal in minutes what was concealed for decades. And sometimes those moments of revelation come with hearing oneself say the words,…
