According to a recent Slate piece, we get tattoos to feel alive in our semi-awake, Brave New World, soma-holiday culture. People “are seeking an antidote to the numbed feelings and detachment that result from their idiotically screen-centered lives,” the story suggests, and “crave the enlivening, awakening, back-to-reality release which comes…  [more]

Editor's note: Agendas Aside, a Think Christian series on homosexuality and the church, also includes articles by Neil de Koning, Glenn Goodfellow and Jason E. Summers. Allow me to show my cards from the outset: I am Christian, heterosexual and I won't be taking an explicit side on the issue…  [more]

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't mince words in his new book Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. Since the 1960s, Douthat argues, institutional Christianity has suffered a slow-motion collapse, leaving the country without the moral core that carried it through foreign wars, economic depressions and…  [more]

I’ve known Chuck Colson, who died today at the age of 80, for 12 years and have been a fan of his for many more. Our friendship began shortly after I became the president of Crossroad Bible Institute. Colson’s Prison Fellowship ministry and CBI have been closely aligned for years;…  [more]

Editor's note: Agendas Aside, a Think Christian series on homosexuality and the church, also includes articles by Joshua Walters, Glenn Goodfellow and Jason E. Summers. How should Christians respond to April 20’s Day of Silence, a student-led national event that brings attention to the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay,…  [more]