The problem is not that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who are willing to contemplate horrific acts. It’s that young men no longer need to be deeply disturbed to contemplate horrific acts.

Marc Champagne is not content with the status quo. As a church planter in Cincinnati, he believes that the community of the church should reflect the community in which God has placed it.

Thank God that He didn’t tell us to “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps”! As a result, we can humbly look at the poor, knowing that their need of redemption is no greater than ours, though it may be more visible.

Because it’s disturbing to talk about, we sanitize the most personal, traumatic of experiences for public, political consumption. But the cultural foundations that lead to sexual violence extend layers beneath the political landscape.

By abandoning traditional rituals in favor of personalized memorial services, we may have lost an opportunity to fully see and share the Gospel.

The dominoes are falling toward the legality of gay marriage, and the arguments of Christians seem to be crumbling beneath them.

The PCA shifts from focusing on what women can’t do, to exploring what they can do.

By perpetuating a secular/sacred divide that elevates the “spiritual” work of Sunday over the “secular” work of the rest of the week, the church has, on occasion, reinforced a view that God doesn’t care about our work. At the same time, a movement within the church is spotlighting the centrality of work and promoting a Gospel-centered view of work as integral to our Christian faith.

Confronting our own fears may be the most difficult reform we face.

Our calling as followers of Christ is not to “fix” the mentally ill, but to follow Jesus into relationship with them.