Blame it on rape culture — It’s not okay that the girls are not okay. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released a report titled, “Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among High School Students.” The 2021 survey updated the findings from the same survey used from 2009–2019. 30% of high school girls “seriously considered” suicide in 2021…

Academic freedom is a lynchpin for Biblical Justice — Robert Linder’s photo may seem like an odd choice for an essay about teaching racism, but these benches capture the underlying reality of the conservative backlash to Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, and “Wokeism.” Conservatives want to exclude the ideas and people that they perceive as threats, first by…

How artificial wombs will change the future — Researchers have made unbelievable strides toward eliminating humans from human reproduction. In 2016, researchers at Cambridge grew human embryos in an artificial womb for 13 days. In 2017, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia developed what they called a Biobag and took a lamb fetus to full term in it. In 2022…

Sociologists Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead compare their data to the traits of fascist movements. — Christian Nationalism is remarkably similar to fascism, but it is just respectable enough to fly under most people’s “fascism radars.” Which makes Christian Nationalism extremely dangerous. That’s the argument of sociologists Samuel Perry and Andrew Whitehead in their 2020 essay, “Christian Nationalism Talks Religion but Walks Fascism.” They compare the…

How ending death may challenge and reform faith — American Evangelicals emphasize going to heaven and avoiding hell. But what will happen to Evangelicalism when medical advances delay death indefinitely? Conservative Evangelicalism has powerfully influenced all branches of American Christianity. Evangelical publishers, conferences, authors, speakers, and musicians diffuse Evangelical ideas throughout the broader Christian subculture. Asking “what will happen…

In Springfield, MO, a man was arrested after using his handgun to demand steaks from the closed meat department of Price Cutter. An employee described Larry Gene Gay holding the gun to his throat. Gay told police he had no idea why he was being arrested. That story illustrates the…

What happens after telling people they need guns to defend themselves against a dangerous world? — Three extraordinarily reckless shootings occurred in the U.S. within days of each other. Evidently, this is what happens after decades of the gun lobby saying, “You should own a gun to protect yourself from violent criminals and also the government.” These shootings share one thing in common. The shooters discharged…

Ralph Yarl and Payton Washington were viewed as threats, not fellow humans — If anyone couldn’t understand the reality of being Black in America before, then the shootings of Ralph Yarl and Payton Washington ought to break through loud and clear. The shooting of Ralph Yarl Ralph Yarl went to pick up his younger brothers after 10 p.m., but he mixed up the addresses, “115th Terrace” and “115th…

The power and danger of public visibility — One of the most popular YouTubers in the world just came out as a transwoman. My reaction to the news illustrates a troubling truth. Trans visibility is a double-edged sword. Visibility raises awareness and understanding of the trans community, but it also distorts perceptions of the community’s size and the…