As more and more people publicly walk away from the Christian faith, pastors must urge their congregations to have deep, personal encounters with God and bring “sacredness” and “reverence” back into worship, according to pastor and author Francis Chan.

The black sheep of Christian music’s Grammy Award-winning trio DC Talk, Kevin Max, has revealed to his followers and fans on social media over the weekend that he has been deconstructing his faith for decades.

Introducing America’s Most Popular Worldview—Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (Report #2: 04-27-2021)

I’ve been thinking a lot on the fact that Jesus was born in a cave. Here is an expanded version of an article I wrote which was published last week at The Stream website: If you have set up your nativity scene by now you probably put the figures in a quaint, wooden stable.

The term “phobia” has been weaponized by some activists and critics in order to replace rational argument and to demonize opponents.

An agnostic historian just offered some interesting advice to Christians who want to be heard in a skeptical culture: “Preach the weird stuff.”

To what extent would you say that the material aspects of Christmas factor into your celebration? in 2017, Americans spent between $906 and $983 on Christmas gifts, up from an average of somewhere between $752 and $929 the year before, depending on the survey. Source: Maintaining a Biblical View on Material Things This Christmas | The Stream

Started in 2019 by Drew Anderson and Tom Nelson, the GAP Program is 9-months of life-leadership training to holistically prepare and equip young adults for TRUE SUCCESS in college, career, family, and life. This program specifically targets graduating high school seniors, and serves as an alternative to heading straight to college or career from high school. Source: GAP: God’s Alternative...

Frederick Douglass was one of America’s greatest orators, abolitionists, social reformers, and statesmen. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, he delivered the address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” A statue of Douglass was eventually erected in Rochester, New York, where he lived and...

By: Peter Leithart – theopolisinstitute.com – April 15, 2020 Is the world under judgment? Is COVID-19 the kind of “pestilence” Yahweh warns of when He says, through Jeremiah, that Judah will be plagued by “sword, famine, pestilence”? It’s hard to read it any other way. An individual illness is a trial; a worldwide pandemic is of a different order. A burglary is...