Live Son or Dead Daughter?
‘There’s one question that would stop a parent in their tracks: “Would you rather have a live son or a dead daughter?” In other words, would you rather help your daughter “transition” to a boy or have her kill herself? That’s the calculus being imposed on some parents. It’s a simple, visceral, and impossible question to answer without responding the way transgender advocates want. Push back even slightly, and you’re branded a monster. But this slogan—and the “choice” it pretends to offer—is a manipulative sham. It’s emotional blackmail masquerading as compassion. ‘
The Sin We’ve Stopped Taking Seriously
‘I’m convinced we don’t take pride seriously as a sin—either in ourselves or in others. We live in a world overflowing with self-promotion, where arrogance is reframed as swagger and narcissism passes for self-confidence. We have lifted up leaders whose egos are so massive we no longer flinch at their self-aggrandizement. Boasting marks our culture today. It’s now normal.’
Of Course Richard Dawkins Believes AI is Conscious
‘A better (or maybe more sympathetic) editor could have framed Dawkins’s encounter with AI as an old materialist’s mystifying encounter with a technology he doesn’t understand. Instead, Dawkins himself, quite unintentionally, makes it abundantly clear what has happened. He has been captivated by a mirror. In the end, what convinces Richard Dawkins of AI’s intellectual incarnation is that it sounds a lot like him.’
Eight Myths about Heaven That Many Believe
Randy Alcorn takes us through some of them.
The “Christian” Pantheon Of Acceptable “gods”
‘There is a curious thing about the first commandment, which is that almost no one believes they have broken it. Murder, yes. Theft, perhaps. Adultery, well, of the eyes if not of the body. But idols? Idols are wooden men in jungles and golden calves in deserts and fat little statues in temples on the other side of the world. The modern man hears Thou shalt have no other gods before me and feels a faint, rather pleasant solidarity with Moses, the way one feels solidarity with a man condemning a crime one has not yet thought of committing. The truth is that we break this commandment before breakfast.’
Head Knowledge Isn’t Enough: Why Knowing About Jesus Is Not the Same as Knowing Him
‘There is a subtle danger that lurks in conservative evangelical churches, particularly those that rightly value sound doctrine and serious Bible teaching. It is the danger of confusing theological knowledge with spiritual maturity. Now, let us be clear from the outset: doctrine matters immensely. Truth matters. God has revealed himself in words, propositions, history, commands, promises, and doctrine. The Christian faith is not anti-intellectual. Loving God includes loving him with our minds. The church desperately needs Christians who think carefully, read deeply, and handle Scripture faithfully. But Scripture also warns us that it is entirely possible to possess accurate theology while remaining spiritually immature, or even spiritually dead.’
From the archive: The problem of grace and what it says about our gospel?
‘We may have a competition to jump to the moon. I might get a little further than you. So, in that case, I have done better. I am better than you. But, weighed against how close either of us actually got to the moon, the comparison is totally pointless. The distance between me and you is so much smaller than the distance between me and the moon. Comparing ourselves and our sin is much like this. I may do a bit better than you – I may do a lot better than some particularly heinous sinners – but the bottom line is, I am far far closer to them than I am to naturally being anywhere near God and his perfect holiness. God is the moon and we are the idiots trying to jump to him and saying, ‘I got closer than you did!’