Shane Morris

2 weeks ago | crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris

In the song Let’s Get Married, by the Gray Havens, a husband-and-wife duo recount: Some would scoff and stare at us,And some would laugh and cry And others asked our age and wage,And raised their eyebrows in surpriseDisbelief is typical of what young couples experience when they decide to get serious about marriage. In fact, it’s a major reason why the average age of first marriage for both men and women is now around 30.

3 weeks ago | crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris

A hundred years before the invention of the television, Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote: Suppose someone invented an instrument, a convenient little talking tube which, say, could be heard over the whole land … I wonder if the police would not forbid it, fearing that the whole country would become mentally deranged if it were used… The prescient comment was part of his criticism of the daily press, specifically how the constant stream of news inflates the importance...

1 month ago | crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris

Should we “optimize” human beings? That was the question Anna Louise Sussman addressed recently in The New York Times, describing a new process that allows fertility services to bring only the healthiest, least disease-prone children into the world. Polygenic embryo screening uses AI to find genes with statistical correlations to disorders such as diabetes, autism, heart disease, cancer, and schizophrenia.

1 month ago | kentuckytoday.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris

Even as the American marriage rate has steadily declined, the cohabitation rate has steadily grown. According to a 2019 Pew Research study, more Americans have cohabitated at some point than have been married. Fifteen times more couples live together outside of marriage today than in 1960.

2 months ago | crosswalk.com | John Stonestreet |Shane Morris

Supporters of progressive cultural and political movements often declare their ideas “inevitable” and “on the right side of history.”  The last few years, however, have demonstrated the need to take such claims with a grain of salt. Arguments and cultural fads that once seemed unstoppable now look dated, and those who persist in making the arguments and following the fads, failing to realize that history never had a “right side” to begin with, look a little silly.