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The Huffington Post had an article out a few days ago about LGBTQ kids and suicide. And it’s alarming. [First of all, a note. The data is from 2011, which means that this information is seven years old. I don’t know how much things may have changed since then. Also, the data for trans people was too small to be analyzed. Moving on.] LGBTQ people 18-30 who claimed to be religious were far more likely to be suicidal or to have attempted suicide recently than non-religious LGBTQ

So here’s something interesting. In Connecticut, from 2013 to 2016, 36% of the kids who were removed from public school to be homeschooled were in families that had been reported at least once to the Department of Children and Families for suspected abuse or neglect. How many of these families were removing their kids from school to avoid further contact with the state? How many of these families were legitimately homeschooling? Connecticut is one of 11 states with no oversig

Exodus 4:1-5 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?” 2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. 3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4 Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his

Micah 7 Micah 7 was part of my Bible reading a few days ago. There are three parts to Micah 7: Lament, Israel will Rise, and Prayer and Praise. Micah wasn’t afraid to lament what was happening to Israel. He could see that Assyria was rising in power and that Israel would be displaced from their land. Lament is something we don’t do well in evangelicalism. We prefer triumphalism! After all, Jesus came to “seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). Some quarters of evangelicalism

Evangelicals want very much to prevent abortions. After all, abortion is taking away a unique life. Guess what? We know how to lower the abortion rate! Colorado lowered it’s teen abortion rate by 50% and it’s abortion rate among 20-24 year old women by 20%. So, what did Colorado do? A private donor allowed Colorado to deveop a program to increase women’s access to family planning clinics, train health care workers, and provide long-acting reversible progestin contraceptives (

I’m pro-life. People take that to mean that I believe that abortion is wrong. And that’s true. Abortion is wrong. But, pro-life means so much more than that. I believe in a consistent ethic of life. If you Google this term, you’ll find a lot of Catholic writing on the subject and very little evangelical writing, but I challenge evangelicals to take a long, hard look at our ethics of life and consider how consistent we are. Abortion is wrong because it takes the life of a uniq

It's time for all the fun links that I've found while wandering the internet this week! * A documentarian went to West Papua New Guinea to make a movie about a primitive tribe, but found quite a surprise when he got there. * What do some Protestants think happens after death? Is Purgatory a thing? * Alex Jones is off the charts crazy! * When you're king, you can change the name of your country. * The UK went more than two days without using coal for the first time ever! * Isl

Book Review Still Evangelical: Insiders Consider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning Ed. Mark Labberton Still Evangelical is a collection of eleven essays from writers across the evangelical spectrum. They range from Shane Claiborne of The Simple Way to Jim Daly of Focus on the Family. Evangelicalism has taken a beating in the public eye recently. After the election of Donald Trump, many people questioned the role of evangelicals in politics. Others have wondered about

It’s Earth Day, 2018. It’s a time to celebrate nature and consider our role in the natural world as well as how we, especially as Christians, can steward this beautiful and amazing earth. Today, Answers in Genesis - the Young-Earth Creationist organization - is rerunning their Earth Day column from 2009. What do they have to say? Plenty. Let’s get one thing out of the way. The author (John Upchurch) insists on equating everyone who accepts the validity of evolution with philo

Countries are considered to be “free” if they are democracies. And democracy is considered, among most people, to be a good thing. The United States of America is a democracy. Well, technically a democratic republic, but you get the idea. But, Pat Buchanan no longer believes in democracy. Really. A couple of days ago, Mr. Buchanan blogged about recent events in Hungary. He was writing about the rise of Viktor Orban and his Fidesz Party, which is far right and autocratic. They