Today, the divide between the parties is wide, serrated and sharp. Even notions of truth are contested by opposing national leaders, and the progressive agenda for “transformational” change is threatened by a Republican-inspired conservative judiciary.
The news about the rise of the unaffiliated has overshadowed something buried a bit further down in the survey’s findings: The collapse of “mainline” Protestantism.
There is nothing more valuable in this world that those of us who bear the "image and likeness of God" (Genesis 1:26). Our value is so great that the Son of God took the punishment we deserve on the cross, and rose to life on the third day so that, through Him, we can know the One in Whose image we were created.
There is a war on Christmas, one of much greater magnitude than generally is reported.
The sheer horror of China's policy of forced abortion on women who become pregnant with a second child is tortuous.
There is a "war of exhaustion" plaguing America: The exhaustion of social conservatives as we continue to defend life, uphold marriage, and protect religious liberty.
"To get the full value of joy," Mark Twain wrote in Following the Equator, "you must have someone to divide it with."
In the midst of the distressing stories of Planned Parenthood's heartless abortion industry and the gruesomeness inherent in destroying a child within the womb, compassionate and committed people in our country and in many other places in the world are putting their lives and incomes on the line in adopting children who desperately need families and homes.
Throughout America, "gay pride" parades took place over this past weekend in many major cities.
Tim Keller's gracious and biblically faithful article on human sexuality and the drive by some to re-interpret Scripture's teachings concerning homosexuality is important.
