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Looking at the headlines this week, I stopped to think through how we got here. And I just need to start by saying a big thank you to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. And all of the promises made and never kept. Let's talk about culture.

Joseph Backholm, “Moloch revisited,” October 12, 2026.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. “Secretary Rubio and the crisis of our age,” October 12, 2026.

Julie Smyth, “Society goes off the rails,” October 12, 2026.

One of the most dangerous philosophies that has taken root in our generation is simply the idea that, even Christians accept just out of hand now, is this idea that every culture is equally valid. Every intellectual argument or assertion should be seriously considered. Everybody's truth has a place at the table. The problem with that is that treating every idea, as though it was equally a valid proposition for our consideration, leads, inevitably, to intellectual absurdity. Some ideas simply need to be called out, highlighted, and mocked.

Cody J. Sanders, “Practicing Multispecies Relationality”,  Vol. 37, No. 3, Summer 2026.

Roughly 100 years ago, Presbyterian minister by the name of J. Gresham Machen wrote a book called Christianity and Liberalism. In that book, he argued that there's no such thing as liberal Christianity and conservative Christianity, but rather that liberal Christianity is not Christianity at all. In fact, this is an entirely different religion. He made that argument a century ago, which is fascinating, because that argument has simply gained traction, in my mind, as the decades have unfolded. Machen, in his generation, never had to consider the idea of same sex marriage or lesbian preachers or transgender denominational leaders. And yet, his argument was, because liberal Christianity, what we today call progressive Christianity, because that theological tradition has jettisoned biblical authority, once biblical authority is off the table, now there are no natural limits to the progression of ideas that the religion canpromote. That's precisely what we've seen. Liberal Christianity, progressive Christianity, knows no boundaries. And now, the religious left is going voting.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. “Is the religious left roaring back?” September 29, 2026.

Hunter Baker, “Will Americans take a radical turn?” August 5, 2026.

In our generation, there is an increasing scent of anti-Semitism in the air. We've seen it for years in the United Nations. We've seen it for years on the progressive left. But we're beginning to see it in the very neighborhoods of traditional support for Israel: the conservative right, both politically and theologically. Let's reexamine this... philosophy, this idea, that has taken hold in contemporary discussion.

Daniel R. Suhr, “Playing politics with an ally,” September 21, 2026.

Michael Knighton, “Boast not against the branches: A word to the Christians now turning from Israel,” June 30, 2026.

The president of the United States recently held a conference at the White House where he invited scientists and researchers and other experts in what we call artificial intelligence. As a result of that meeting, Donald Trump suggested that maybe moving forward, we should change our terminology and refer to this thing as supreme intelligence. Let me tell you why that's such a bad idea.

Owen Anderson, “Silicon Valley is building a god in its own image,” September 19, 2026.

 Tyler Durden, “They Don’t Believe in God…They Believe They’ve Created One,”  September 17, 2026.

 R. Lucas Stamps, “Immortality without God,” August 25, 2026.

In one of the funniest news stories to come out in a while, we have the implosion of the Women's National Basketball Association. The WNBA, the Women's National Basketball Association. As it turns out, the women who run the league, and the women who coach the league, and the women who play in the league, don't know what a woman is. You can't make this up.

Ray Hacke, “Poison Ivy in women’s golf,” August 27, 2026.

_________, “Inclusion leading to implosion,” August 7, 2026.

Liz Lykins, “Former NBA player ejected from arena at WNBA game,” August 24, 2026.

September the 11th, 2026. Twenty-five years from that horrendous day that we now, by shorthand, simply refer to as “Nine Eleven”. How have we come in just 2.5 decades from our largest city, New York City, being attacked by Muslim terrorists, to this day where New York City is now presided over by a Muslim mayor? It's a remarkable story, and we need to examine it.

Joe Rigney, “Mosques and idols in America,” September 3, 2026.

 A.S. Ibrahim, “The mayor’s invented Muhammad,” September 3, 2026.

 ——— “America doesn’t owe you a blank check,” August 21, 2026.

——— “The real Islamist threat,” August 17, 2026.

Lindsay Clancy is a 32-year-old Massachusetts woman who is on trial this week after confessing to murdering her 3 small children in 2023. Her defense contends that she was suffering from a postpartum psychosis that was responsible for her actions. She's testified that she heard voices telling her to kill the children, and that at the time of the killings, she was suffering from extreme mental illness, and a shocking cocktail of psychiatric medications. While it's difficult to analyze this particular trial without sitting in the courtroom and hearing all of the testimony, it's not difficult to analyze the deep flaws within American culture right now, as we look at the social media responses to this trial. Let's see what we can find out.

Samuel D. James, “Lindsay Clancy and the problem of therapy culture”, August 24, 2026.

Christina Grube, “Defense rests in viral Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial”, August 21, 2026.

Steven Wedgeworth, “A Canadian liturgy of death?”,  August 5, 2026.

In 2021, Planned Parenthood published an article, arguing that abortion proponents should change their language and quit using the terms pro-choice or pro-abortion. They said the problem is that those terms seem to imply that abortion is a badthing. They seem to imply that abortion is a bad thing. Instead, they said, let's change the terminology to other more positive upbeat things, because we don't want to stigmatize abortion as somehow being bad. Well, that's just what abortion proponents would do. This is typical. Instead of confronting the reality that abortion kills a living human baby, their solution is, let's monkey with the propaganda and the vocabulary so that we can continue to hide the reality of this barbaric practice. Let's talk about the state of abortion in America today.

Elizabeth Black, "Catholic Vote calls for Massachusetts governor's excommunication", August 13, 2026.

David Closson, "Seared consciences in Massachusetts", August 17, 2026.

David Closson, "Dropping the 'pro-choice' pretense", August 10, 2026.

One of the fun parts about being a pastor is that when I meet somebody who then finds out what I do, I get a whole range of responses. Sometimes there's respect, sometimes there's fascination, and sometimes there's a smirk. A smirk that suggests, “Oh, you're one of those.” Gullible, backward, non-intellectual. And I love those encounters, because I love it when people underestimate me. Let's talk about intelligence and Christianity.

Grace Snell, “Supernatural Mysteries,” March 2026.

Les Sillars, “On the edge of faith,” January 2026.