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Feb 11, 2024 | 
stream.org | Tom Gilson |J. Stonestreet |K. Leander
Planned Parenthood wants to teach sexual abandon in its “What is Virginity?” video, but the real lesson is how happily that group abandons honesty and rationality. Bad as it is, we can still use this video to teach our kids how to detect lies, even lies told with great production values. Spotting fakes is only half the game in these days of deception, though, and the other half is more important yet. It’s one thing to hunt down lies. What about finding the truth?
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
stream.org | Emily Hawley |Kathryn Lopez |J. Stonestreet |K. Leander
Millions of children since 1973 have been sacrificed on the altar of convenience by a culture that sees children as a curse rather than a gift — a culture that prioritizes death over life, ease over responsibility, and pleasure over the preservation of life itself. What is to be said about a nation that kills its own children, its future?
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
stream.org | Jonathan Noyes |Clarice Clayton |J. Stonestreet |K. Leander
By Jonathan Noyes Published on December 20, 2023 Often, the Christmas season passes all too quickly because we’re content to celebrate it on an entirely earthly level. The things we enjoy—family reunions, time off, food, the exchanging of gifts—become the entirety of our celebration.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
stream.org | John Stonestreet |G.S. Morris |J. Stonestreet |K. Leander
One of the best features of our smartphones is the ability to apply a few tweaks to our photos before sending them to relatives or sharing them on social media. Using a phone’s built-in tools, we can bump up the brightness or fix red eye, with the desired result of a photo that looks more like the real-life moment when we snapped it. Of course, these same tools can now deliver photos even “better” than what we saw in real life. We can even create moments that didn’t happen in real life.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
stream.org | Joe Dallas |Alan Shlemon |J. Stonestreet |K. Leander
I was raised to show respect. “You stand for a lady,” Dad would lecture, “and you shake a man’s hand with a firm grip, looking straight into his eyes.” Botching a name or title was its own felony: “Always remember whether the person you’re talking to is called Mister, or Doctor, or Miss,” he’d warn. “People feel disrespected when you get their name wrong.”So when a transgender friend who was born male wants me to call him “she,” I can almost see Dad glaring at me when I hesitate. “Well?
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
stream.org | Kathryn Lopez |Al Perrotta |J. Stonestreet |K. Leander
“Diplomacy is the art of hope.” Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger quoted Pope Benedict XVI in what must have been the final public address he made, just weeks before his death. Kissinger was speaking at the annual Al Smith Dinner for charity in New York, an event he’d regularly attended for decades. For myriad reasons, Kissinger being the keynote speaker was important.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
stream.org | J. Stonestreet |K. Leander |Sheila Walsh |Raymond Ibrahim
Just War theory is one of the most significant contributions of Christianity to the world. On a recent episode of “Breakpoint This Week,” Dr. Eric Patterson, president of the Religious Freedom Institute and a political scientist who has done extensive work on the subject, discussed how the Just War tradition can help us think through the atrocities of Hamas and the retaliation by Israel.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
stream.org | J. Stonestreet |T. Padgett |K. Leander
One of the most beloved and quotable scenes in The Chronicles of Narnia is from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when the children learn that Aslan is a lion, “the Lion, the great Lion.”“Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is he—quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.” “Safe?” said Mr. Beaver … “Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
stream.org | Tom Murosky |J. Stonestreet |K. Leander |David Jeremiah
In a previous Stream article I wrote on “Digital Privacy and the Christian,” and made a case for why, “I have nothing to hide” is not your best answer to digital privacy concerns. I delved into ideas of “turnkey tyranny” and how digital systems can (and have) been co-opted to engage in tyranny. I also talked briefly about first-century believers hiding themselves during persecution, in the hopes of living to pass the gospel message to more people.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
stream.org | J. Stonestreet |K. Leander |Al Perrotta |Dennis Prager
The same day that Hamas militants murdered thousands of innocent men, women, and children, over 30 Harvard University student groups signed a statement of solidarity … not with the victims, but with the militants. “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence … [T]he apartheid regime is the only one to blame,” they wrote. Harvard’s administration was deafeningly silent for days.
