An Open Letter to Teens Facing Doubts about Christianity
Rebecca McLaughlin
Perhaps you believe in Jesus, but sometimes you are not sure. Maybe you find the Bible hard to understand or you find yourself wondering what is true. Asking questions is often the best way to learn.
Can We Have Justice without Jesus?
Rebecca McLaughlin
The real question is whether or not we would want justice without Jesus. And there are two reasons why the answer to that question should be ‘no.’
Is Christianity Misogynistic?
Rebecca McLaughlin
We may take it for granted that women are equally valuable as men. But that was not what people in Jesus’s day believed.
Maximus the Gladiator and Jesus the Christ
Rebecca McLaughlin
Just as Maximus was not just a gladiator but the ultimate Gladiator, the Gospel authors claim that Jesus is not just a king, but the King.
Why Do Christians Make Such a Big Deal about Sex?
Rebecca McLaughlin
The fundamental reason why Christians believe that sex belongs only in the permanent bond of male-female marriage is because of the metaphor of Jesus’s love for his church.
The Hardest Thing Jesus Said about My Money
Rebecca McLaughlin
Perhaps you felt a twinge of discomfort when Jesus told the rich young man to give everything he had to the poor and follow him. But he’s not done.
3 Times Jesus Told Us He Was God without Saying It
Rebecca McLaughlin
“Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” The scribes aren’t wrong: the only person with the right to say these words is God himself.
A Brief Intro to the Origins of Humanity
Rebecca McLaughlin
One of the hot spots in the perceived conflict between science and Christianity is around the question of how human beings came to exist.
Help! I Don’t Know How to Answer My Kid’s Tough Questions
Rebecca McLaughlin
Rather than seeing our cultural challenges today only as obstacles for our kids, I’m increasingly convinced they’re opportunities to do three important things.
Is God Fair to Judge Us?
Rebecca McLaughlin
Most of us like to think we’re basically good people. We know we’re not perfect. We sometimes do bad things. But at heart, we think we’re pretty good.
Why It Is Unloving to Preach #YouDoYou
Rebecca McLaughlin
If the ship is going down, it’s not arrogant to tell people the truth and point them to the lifeboat. It’s deeply unloving not to.
Why Jesus Cannot Be One Truth among Many
Rebecca McLaughlin
Jesus claims rule over all of heaven and earth. He presents himself not as one possible path to God, but as God himself.
How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?
Rebecca McLaughlin
Jesus is not separable from the God whose wrath he faces on the cross, so he is not separable from us, if we but put our trust in him.
Is the Bible’s Teaching about Homosexuality Offensive?
Rebecca McLaughlin
Jesus is sometimes caricatured as a prophet of free love, unconcerned about sexual ethics. But his teaching on sexual morality was consistently stricter than the Old Testament law.
The Greatest Movement for Racial Diversity in All of History
Rebecca McLaughlin
Christianity is not declining contrary to many of our perceptions, whether we are secular or religious.
When ‘I Don’t Know’ Is a Good Answer and When It’s Not
Rebecca McLaughlin
It’s vital that everyday Christians are speaking into nuanced cultural issues from a biblical perspective.
Discard Christianity, Discard Human Equality
Rebecca McLaughlin
Saying that the Bible undermines the idea of human equality is a bit like saying that England undermines the English language.
Did Jesus Have Bad PR?
Rebecca McLaughlin
Christianity was a multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural movement from the beginning.
Why the Secularization Hypothesis Is Fundamentally Flawed
Rebecca McLaughlin
As the world became more modern, more scientific, and more educated, sociologists thought the world was also becoming less religious, but is it true?
Suffering with a Christian Worldview
Rebecca McLaughlin
The question we must always ask of suffering is this: What could possibly be worth it? Jesus’s flabbergasting claim is that he is.
2 Heated Cultural Debates the Bible Addresses
Rebecca McLaughlin
If we read the Bible carefully, we find that all of our modern cultural debates are addressed there.
Marriage Is a Gateway
Rebecca McLaughlin
Married or single, our hearts should never settle. But no man or woman is the person of our dreams.