As we come to the end of another Pride Month in America, it’s appropriate for us to consider where we stand with our culture with regard to “gay pride” and “LGBTQ rights.”

Colin J. Smothers, “The modern West’s infertility gods,” June 24, 2024.

Ericka Andersen, “Who is the oppressed and the oppressor?” June 10, 2024.

Last week in Indianapolis, IN, almost 11,000 messengers representing hundreds of churches from across the United States and across the world came together for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. In light of negative news coming out of most evangelical denominations in recent months combined with the misrepresentation by the mainstream media of much of what happened there, it’s important for you to have a report about our convention from someone who was there. So, let me share with you the good, the bad, and the future.

In recent news, the Boy Scouts of America have now completed their surrender to the culture that started several years ago. And the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs has ignited a firestorm of criticism because he committed the audacious sin of commending his wife for being a great stay-at-home wife and mother. We live in a nonsense world.

Joseph Backholm, “Just ask a Boy Scout,” May 28, 2024.

Joe Rigney, “Assuming the center,” May 23, 2024.

Kim Henderson, “More crime, less punishment,” March 21, 2024.

“Death to America!” That’s a chant that we see on TV sometimes. It usually comes from somewhere in Tehran or another place in the Middle East, but lately it has shown up in Dearborn, Michigan, the jihad capital of America. Let’s talk about that.

Janie B. Cheaney, “More than bedrock,” April 18, 2024.

A.S. Ibrahim, “A wake-up call about Islamism in the United States,” April 18, 2024.

Bethel McGrew, “Poor Richard’s Christianity,” April 9, 2024.

Last Sunday was Mother’s Day and in a culture that can no longer even define the term “woman,” Mother’s Day is a bit of an anachronism. It’s a day that reminds us of some things that we intuitively know beyond a shadow of a doubt. But it’s a day that points out just how much nonsense has emerged in our culture. So let’s consider mothers.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., “And a little child shall tell the truth,” May 13, 2024.

Liz Lykins, “Title IX changes could threaten rights of the accused,” April 26, 2024.

Lauren Dunn, “Department of Education rolls back protections for girls,” April 24, 2024.

In his prescient novel, 1984, George Orwell argued that the control of language is a means by which governments and other totalitarian agencies control the narrative, the agenda, the way we control people. It is interesting that in 2024, language is becoming the battlefield for control in our culture. What does the bible have to say about this?

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., “The Antisemitism Awareness Act is a big problem,” May 6, 2024.

_________________, “Breaking news—the media class is liberal,” April 17, 2024.

Jordan J. Ballor, “False prophets and politicians,” March 25, 2024.

Joseph Backholm, “An era of euphemism and lies,” March 22, 2024.

A couple of years ago when the Dobbs decision threw Roe vs. Wade back to the states, a lot of us thought that the abortion conversation would begin to decline and eventually become less significant as a part of the public discourse. In fact, the exact opposite has happened and abortion is once again, not only a topic of conversation, but it is a lynchpin for this year’s presidential campaign. Let’s talk about it.

Bethel McGrew, “Saying it out loud,” April 17, 2024.

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., “Kamala at the death camp,” March 20, 2024.

Katy Faust, “Expendable lives,” February 29, 2024.

Erin Hawley, “Billions for abortion advocacy,” January 31, 2024.

Critics of the Bible often say that rather than the Word of God, the Bible is just a man-made document that is about ancient stories and has no relevance to today. And yet, over thousands of years the Bible has consistently been proven accurate by archeological evidence. It has explained and helped us understand events in the course of human history. Why can’t we turn to the Bible to evaluate the events happening around us today. Well, we can.

William Inboden, “A troubling milestone indeed,” April 15, 2024.

______________, “Is the United States abandoning Israel?” April 8, 2024.

______________, “The UN dithers, while Israel stands alone,” March 27, 2024.

Mike Evans, “What God is Calling Us to Do,” March 2024.

In the category of “You Just Can’t Make This Up,” last Sunday, March 31st, 2024 was both Easter Sunday for western Christianity as well as National Transgender Visibility Day. In writing the proclamation for that observance, President Biden said to the transgender community, “You are America and my entire administration and I have your back.” Well, I wonder who has the backs of those who have been observing Easter for 2000 years. Let’s talk about the clash of historic faith and current political ideology.

Carl R. Trueman, “The dangerous logic of hate crimes,” April 2, 2024.

R. Albert Mohler Jr., “It’s not working, Mr. President,” April 1, 2024.

Andrew T. Walker, “The Biden White House really went there,” April 1, 2024.

This week is opening day for the 2024 MLB season. We ought to be talking about the prospects for each team or how the LA Dodgers committed $1 billion this winter to are agents trying to buy a World Series, but instead we are talking about one player: Shohei Ohtani, arguably the best baseball player on the planet. But we aren’t talking about him because he’s a talented ball player. We’re talking about him because he’s at the center of potentially the biggest gambling scandal in sports in a generation. How should we think about sports betting as Believers?

Mike Florio, “The Ohtani gambling scandal, in a nutshell,” March 24, 2024.

Keith O’Brien, “A Massive Baseball-Gambling Scandal Is Brewing. But Sports Betting Has Already Exploded—and Congress Couldn’t Care Less,” March 21, 2024.

Daniel Darling, “The dark underbelly of sports betting,” February 29, 2024.