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Jul 27, 2024 | 
timesfreepress.com | John Stonestreet |Kasey Leander
Since 1938, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has followed two groups of men. One is a group of 456 boys from Boston's most troubled families and roughest neighborhoods. The other consisted of 268 Harvard College students, chosen by a professor of hygiene specifically for their potential to become healthy, well-adjusted adults. The focus of the longitudinal study has been to discern the factors that best predict a long, healthy life.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | John Stonestreet |Jared Hayden |Kasey Leander
This summer’s Olympic games will mark the 100th anniversary of the incredible performance and shocking faith of Scottish Gold Medalist Eric Liddell, whose story was immortalized in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. A devout Christian and of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries to China, Liddell was an athlete of tremendous promise from his youth. In addition to running, Liddell was selected to play for Scotland’s international rugby team seven times.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | John Stonestreet |Kasey Leander |G. Shane Morris
A parent of a six-year-old recently asked WIRED Magazine’s advice columnist, “My kid wants to be an influencer. Is that bad?”WIRED’s answer, more or less, was that the concerned parent should relax. “All that collective angst about television, movies, newspapers, and theater,” the author wrote, is “a lineage, a rite of passage through which all generations must proceed.” That’s true. But just because “The Twist” was pretty harmless doesn’t mean that TikTok is.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
colsoncenter.libsyn.com | John Stonestreet |Kasey Leander
Join John Stonestreet for a daily dose of sanity—applying a Christian worldview to culture, politics, movies, and more. And be a part of God's work restoring all things.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | John Stonestreet |G. Shane Morris |Kasey Leander
Typically, the side that tries the hardest to obscure what is being argued about is the wrong one. For example, abortion supporters, having largely lost the scientific and constitutional battles, are turning now to critical theory talking points and claims of victimhood. The strategy is to portray abortion as a justice issue and anyone who opposes it as an oppressor.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | John Stonestreet |Kasey Leander
Recently, Christian writer Samuel Sey tweeted, “The question isn’t: ‘[D]oes God exist?’ The question is: ‘[H]ow could anything exist without God?’” Or, as Fraulein Maria sang in The Sound of Music, “Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could.” Not only is there something (lots of them) in this world, but there is also consciousness, creativity, beauty, love, and order. These things say an awful lot about what kind of First Cause is required to bring all these somethings into existence.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | John Stonestreet |Kasey Leander |Maria R. Baer
According to English teacher Tim Donahue, academic inflation is as real as economic inflation. In the 1960s, around 15% of grades given at colleges were “A.” As of 2017, it was nearly 50%. Meanwhile SAT scores fell by 20 points and by 2023, ACT scores reached the worst scores in three decades. This, Donahue says, could explain why “65 percent of Americans feel they are ”The purpose of grades is to provide feedback, a way humans learn and grow.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | John Stonestreet |G. Shane Morris |Kasey Leander
One of the oldest features of Christianity is its appeal among women. Women swelled the ranks of the Early Church as it reflected how Jesus had treated them. He talked to women in public, defended them against accusers, and appeared to them first after His resurrection. All this at a time when women were widely treated as inferior to men. Today, however, women in America seem to be abandoning Christian observance more quickly than men.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
colsoncenter.libsyn.com | John Stonestreet |Kasey Leander
Join John Stonestreet for a daily dose of sanity—applying a Christian worldview to culture, politics, movies, and more. And be a part of God's work restoring all things.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
breakpoint.org | John Stonestreet |Michaela Estruth |Kasey Leander
Recently, the Senate’s Committee on Armed Services advanced the National Defense Authorization Act for 2025. The proposal would “amend the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for Selective Service.” If the bill became law, every daughter, upon turning 18, would be required to sign up for the military draft, just as men currently must do. This effort illustrates the confusion behind the contemporary call for equity instead of equality. Equality is about dignity.
