Christian Living

“In an address of sweeping historical breadth that quoted everyone from T.S. Eliot and Ronald Reagan to Russell Kirk, Secretary DeVos corrected two widespread misconceptions about U.S. education. First, she exposed the dichotomy between government-run education and family empowerment through choice.

“Quick judgments based on idioms are not good because we can associate someone’s idiom (words) with some prior judgment that we have (a negative one) when the other person intends no such thing! Here is a simple example….” - Wyatt Graham

“I may have been unsure at first, but I am glad that I could use the word ‘disciple’ in that context. Discipleship highlights a fundamental issue for followers of Jesus right now: there are certain things that are in us and need to be discipled out of us and other things that need to be discipled in us and aren’t there currently.” - Ed Stetzer

“Almost 3,000 Moody Bible Institute students, alumni, and parents have signed a petition urging President Mark Jobe to initiate changes to the school’s approach to disclosures of sexual harassment and abuse.” - C.Leaders

“My Christian brothers who vote badly—very badly—are righteous. They are bathed in the righteousness of Christ. That makes how they vote insignificant to my regard for them, relatively speaking.” - Dan Olinger

“4. Read more books. In her book iGen, Jean Twenge shows research that reading of books and long-form articles is dropping significantly ….Jennifer Lyell used to say something like, ‘we need weighty content that is developed and designed for more than consumption at a stop light.’” - C.Leaders

“Nelson reported having found eight Christian schools that engaged in what he labeled a ‘tuition reset,’ which meant they ‘dropped their sticker price substantially.’” - C.Post

“The word legalism is overused. Sometimes I tell my students at the seminary where I teach that they may use this word once a year and no more. All too often legalism is employed whenever we consider obedience inconvenient.” - Derek Thomas

“If Barrett’s nomination succeeds, she’ll become the first woman on the Court who’s a mother to school-age children….What myths do we perpetuate by assuming that Barrett (and women like her) are doing it all and doing it all by themselves?” - C.Today