Breakpoint

Just like an ideology that affirms everything, a flag that affirms everyone’s ideas about gender and the body ends in self-parody and as a source of headaches.

Morality, and its absence, is contagious, especially from one generation to the next. After all, families are the place we first learn to trust and to be trustworthy.

Amazon doesn’t sell what kids need most: our love, our time, and our commitment to raising them in the Lord and teaching them what’s true. Give these gifts, and it won’t matter how much you spend on a stroller.

In Truth Changes Everything, Jeff Myers’ skill to teach through stories is on full display. Ultimately, he demonstrates that these amazing stories happened because of what is true about the world and how followers of Christ oriented their lives to that truth.

Stories of the faithful who have gone before offer a perspective for our own life and faith that we cannot get anywhere else.

Sure, go ahead and let the kids dress up like Batman and hit up your neighbors for candy. But when the hoopla of modern Halloween is over, encourage your kids to imitate some real heroes—not in what they put on, but in how they live their lives. That was Chuck Colson, from October 31, 2007, describing the rich history behind All Saints' Day.  

John and Maria talk about prioritizing issues for voting in the midterm elections. Afterward, they discuss the factors leading to a decline in reading and math skills for K-12. They end on the moralistic mysticism affecting the hard sciences and medicine.

As youth struggle with an unprecedented loss of satisfaction and sense of meaning, God’s Word is the best way to draw them closer to the One they’re already keen to know.

No matter what day it is, Paul’s instructions in Philippians 4 should guide our celebrations. Christians should think on “whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and commendable.” (This commentary is an updated version of one that first aired on Oct. 31, 2014). 

As the intentional handiwork of a Creator, we have a foundation to discover the meaning our culture has lost.