Breakpoint

Parents have the right to protect their children from harm, such as being inducted or indoctrinated against their will into a harmful ideology. The state has no business interfering with parents protecting their children from an ideology younger than smartphones. 

Recently the Women’s March organization tweeted, “We’re not just pro-choice. We are proudly, unapologetically, pro-abortion.” It’s a shocking stance but not surprising, given that just days after that first Women’s March, organizers announced that pro-life women were unwelcome at all future events.

75% of young adults don’t know their purpose in life and that’s why almost half feel hopeless. Dr. Jeff Myers reminds us that truth exists and can be known because Jesus is truth and he has revealed himself to us.

This is what our “Cruciform witness” will look like today: faithful devotion to Christ leading to a loving engagement with a watching world. Recently, Glen Scrivener was a guest on the Upstream podcast. You can listen to his interview with my colleague Shane Morris wherever you get your podcasts. And please, go vote today. 

Technology that infringes on a child’s rights to life, to be protected in body and mind, and to his or her own mother and father should not be pursued at all.  

A tragic trend of the past few years is the explosion in the number of young people who identify as “transgender” or “non-binary.” Filmmaker Donald J. Johnson’s latest production, Dysconnected, examines the ways transgender ideology pulls young people apart from their bodies, families, and reality itself. 

John and Maria discuss the role of identity politics in the reaction to the attack on Paul Pelosi and how should Christians respond to a call for forgiveness after Covid lockdowns? 

The Vatican has renewed its 2018 arrangement with Beijing. Critics continue to warn that it’s a recipe for disaster.

Salvation won’t arrive on Air Force One, and a perfect world won’t come through the ballot box. But a better world is possible if all our actions, political and otherwise, flow downstream from our Christian convictions, and not the other way around.

Beneath all of this is a worldview that sees reproduction as primarily about “production.” Missing is not only the word, but the framework that comes with seeing the making of human life as “procreation,” or as the word implies, that human life is created.