The television show South Park first aired in 1997, the same year I graduated college. I don’t remember watching it right away, but by the second season, I was an avid fan. I was drawn to the show’s total irreverence…
Here’s another reason Calvinism is morally bankrupt
Note: This article includes detailed discussion of child sexual abuse in the context of why God allows suffering in the world. Now the TheoBros are using the gospel to spread indifference about the rape and murder of 10-year-old girls….
Garrison Keillor: The Pied Piper of liberal Mainline nostalgia
Garrison Keillor is still on the road at 83. From 1974 to 2016, he was on the radio practically every Saturday night at 5:00 Central Time. The show was called A Prairie Home Companion. If you’ve read this far, you…
What’s next for John MacArthur’s church and preaching ministry?
If ever there were a ministry built around one person, it is “Grace to You,” the broadcast ministry of the late John MacArthur. And Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, where MacArthur served as pastor 55 years, is not much…
This book tells the honest story of preachers and preaching
On Sunday afternoons, after preaching, I often feel wrung out — so spent that all I can manage is to sink into the couch with a novel or binge-watch mindless television. Early in my ministry career, I wondered if other…
What we learned from Hurricane Katrina
“We weren’t refugees. We were Americans. But to the world, we were treated like we didn’t belong.” — Ricky Fountain, Katrina survivor now living in Arkansas Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina did more than flood a city; it…
Who wants to be an ICE agent?
A centerpiece of the “big beautiful bill,” as the recently passed tax and spending act was dubbed by President Donald Trump, is a massive funding appropriation for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security. The…
What happened to Spurgeon’s College?
Just as students across the UK are beginning the fall term, 169-year Spurgeon’s College in London has closed its doors for good. According to a statement by the school, the unexpected closure of Europe’s largest Baptist college on July 31…
Trump administration wages war on inconvenient facts
Facts can be stubborn things, but the Trump administration has declared war on those facts that don’t support its narrative. When confronted by inconvenient facts, it fires the messengers and sues the fact-checkers. On Aug. 1, the Bureau of Labor…
In fight against patriarchy, women ‘are not listened to’
As armed National Guardsmen begin patrolling the streets of our cities at the command of President Donald Trump, many Americans are waking up to the deadly dangers of toxic white male domination bent on violent authority. But there is one…
Trump’s DC takeover and the question of juvenile crime
President Donald Trump, who was found guilty on 34 felony convictions in 2024 but faced no penalties, now wants to change the law in Washington, D.C., to charge minors as adults. Earlier this month in a post on Truth Social,…
On way out the door, Mandrell airs grievances with Lifeway trustees
In January 2025, then Lifeway CEO Ben Mandrell called his trustees into an executive session to address ongoing conflicts he faced while seeking to lead the $300-million-a-year publishing enterprise. Those particular conflicts, which have not been previously reported, centered not…