A Schooling Renaissance?

Today’s BreakPoint: A Schooling Renaissance? JOHN STONESTREET WITH MARIA BAER Earlier this month, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper made an announcement. Actually, he made more of a non-announcement: He wasn’t sure whether North Carolina schools would reopen this Fall. A few hours later, the state government’s website handling parents’ applications to homeschool crashed. According to the error message, … More A Schooling Renaissance?

A Letter to ‘Cancel-Culture’

Today’s BreakPoint: A Letter to ‘Cancel-Culture’ JOHN STONESTREET WITH SHANE MORRIS To do or to say something insufficiently progressive these days risks the wrath of what’s being called “cancel-culture.” A mostly young and mostly online gaggle of so-called “social justice warriors” will attempt to silence anyone they deem to hold views sufficiently problematic or insufficiently “woke.” … More A Letter to ‘Cancel-Culture’

The Link Between Marijuana, Psychosis, and Suicide

The Link Between Marijuana, Psychosis, and Suicide JOHN STONESTREET WITH ROBERTO RIVERA Recreational marijuana is legal in 11 states and another 21 states permit the use of so-called “medical marijuana.” I say “so-called” because, as NYU drug policy expert Mark Kleinman has put it, “the vast majority of ‘patients’ buying ‘medical marijuana’ aren’t doing so under … More The Link Between Marijuana, Psychosis, and Suicide

Tweeting Something Isn’t Necessarily Doing Something

Tweeting Something Isn’t Necessarily Doing Something JOHN STONESTREET WITH MARIA BAER “You are not a social media handle. Don’t feel pressure to post and repost everything to show that you care. Advocate locally. Be incarnate.” Last week, a pair of activists launched a social media campaign that quickly went from advocacy to unintentional irony. To … More Tweeting Something Isn’t Necessarily Doing Something

Our World Split Apart and the Hope of Pentecost

On the heels of my article yesterday Riots and the Need a Heart Transplant BreakPoint offers their take on the matter: Our World Split Apart and the Hope of Pentecost Christians in a Time of Social Breakdown JOHN STONESTREET Think about it. We can go to space. We can instantly communicate with anyone anywhere in the world. We … More Our World Split Apart and the Hope of Pentecost

Rediscovering Truth

Rediscovering Truth “Truth. Love. Together” Begins Today JOHN STONESTREET  WITH DAVID CARLSON In February, the Alliance Defending Freedom filed suit on behalf of three female high school track athletes who are being forced to compete against biological males. During the oral arguments, the presiding judge demanded that ADF attorneys refer to the biologically male athletes as … More Rediscovering Truth

Adoption Is Beautiful, Surrogacy Isn’t

Adoption Is Beautiful, Surrogacy Isn’t Responding to Concerns and Questions JOHN STONESTREET  WITH MARIA BAER Recently, prompted by the news that CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and his homosexual partner paid a woman to carry a child for them, my colleague Maria Baer and I released a BreakPoint commentary on the serious ethical problems of surrogacy. Surrogacy intentionally … More Adoption Is Beautiful, Surrogacy Isn’t

Is Critical Theory Compatible with Christianity?

Is Critical Theory Compatible with Christianity? If you haven’t heard the terms “intersectionality” and “critical theory,” your children likely have, at least if they are in college or even high school. What began as an academic theory decades ago is now a dominant way of seeing human relationships, at least for many: There are the … More Is Critical Theory Compatible with Christianity?