John Stonestreet and Timothy D. Padgett

Voices Contributors

The African Famine: Our Brothers and Sisters Need Our Help

Africa is facing yet another seemingly unprecedented crisis — a famine stretching from Somalia, to South Sudan, to Nigeria, in which 20 million people are at risk of starvation. When one hurts, we all hurt — and compassion fatigue is no excuse for looking away.

The African Famine: Our Brothers and Sisters Need Our Help

Eugene Peterson and Same-Sex Marriage: It's a Gospel Issue

I'm glad for Eugene Peterson's retraction on same-sex marriage, though his statements are still puzzling. Even more, they're revealing. First, they reveal the crisis of authority among evangelicals. So much of this conversation, and many others within the evangelical church, is driven by celebrities instead of doctrine.

Eugene Peterson and Same-Sex Marriage: It's a Gospel Issue

A Genderless Child? When Ideology Becomes Abuse

I don't think "abuse" is too strong a word for a mother who refuses to acknowledge the biological reality of her child's sex, and to raise him or her in denial of such reality. The potential for harm here is great.

A Genderless Child? When Ideology Becomes Abuse

Time to Thicken up the Church

Are our churches truly leaving a mark on people? Or another way to think about it: Are our churches thick or thin?

Time to Thicken up the Church

Numbed by Video Games: Anesthetic for the Male Soul?

If there is a stereotype that lives up to reality these days, it's the unemployed, disaffected, twenty-something American male who haunts his parents' basement, addicted to World of Warcraft.

Numbed by Video Games: Anesthetic for the Male Soul?