Jonathan Waits

Have you ever had the opportunity to drive through an old neighborhood and thought, “Why haven’t they just bulldozed this whole place? This is a mess! This is an eyesore! The people still living here should get a medal.”  Jonathan…

A few weeks ago I wrote about the conflict in Egypt and how Christians should think about it. Since then, the conflict in Syria, to which I alluded in my last article, has blown up into a full-on international crisis…

The news and images coming out of Egypt seem to get bleaker every time the news comes in. The revolution that began in Tahrir Square two years ago with such promise and hope for positives has devolved into a civil…

I recently heard and read about some potentially groundbreaking medical news. The basic gist of the news is that researchers at the University of Massachusetts medical school have found a way to essentially turn off the genetic material which causes…

A recent Religious Herald article [July 29] analyzes new research that predicts a coming rise in the number of religious progressives relative to moderates and conservatives. The analysis is troubling to me for a number of reasons. First, it does…

The news has finally broken. The most anticipated Supreme Court decisions in a long time were finally released last week.  A sharply divided court has ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional as far as its implications for…

It has been about three weeks now since the national leaders of the Boy Scouts made the somewhat unexpected decision to reverse a longstanding policy and allow openly-gay scouts to participate in the organization. In the wake of the Southern…

What do you do when it seems like the bottom has fallen out? How do we move forward in the wake of tragedy both nationally and personally? The only way is to root ourselves deeply in the truth. As I…

What do you do when the bottom falls out? That question has been pressing itself harder and harder into our consciences this year. Take a brief walk through the last month and change. A terror attack at the Boston Marathon…