Society
Does Quantum Mechanics Help Us Make Sense of the Soul?
The lively Wednesday evening discussion at COSM 2025 between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and historian of science Michael Shermer was followed by some further comments, including Shermer’s reflections on the possibility of life after death:…
A Majority of U.S. Christians Believe Good Works Contribute to Salvation
A new report from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, part of the American Worldview Inventory 2025, reveals that Americans typically believe Jesus Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection from the grave are not…
Phil King on Worship That Awakens a Nation: Behind the Scenes of America Reads the Bible
An episode of Conversations with Christians Engaged — a podcast dedicated to helping believers continue walking in faith while navigating the muddy ways of politics and culture. By The Stream Published on November 30, 2025…
How Political Correctness Hijacked the Arts
By The Stream Published on November 30, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpafNL06I14 What gets to be called “art” — and who decides? In this 41-minute, wide-ranging Socrates Dialogues conversation, New York-based thinkers, writers, and art…
Charles Murray and Others Rediscovering God: No Accident of Timing
People who have followed ferment in the book world since, say, the Eighties and the Nineties, have likely heard of political scientist Charles Murray (b. 1943). He authored the influential Losing Ground (1984) on welfare reform. Much more…
Authentic vs Counterfeit Revival – The Stream
By The Stream Published on November 28, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwGgzBij1eQ In this 21-minute video, Pastor Shane Idleman explains how to discern true, Spirit-led revival from merely human enthusiasm, hype, and even hysteria. Like…
The Biblical Meaning of Gratitude
In the Jewish tradition, gratitude is not only a feeling. It is a response to a sacred question. That question is “Ayeka?” “Where are you?” It is the first question God poses to humanity in the Garden of Eden, spoken into a moment when…
Drowning in Distraction? Phillip Telfer on Reclaiming Your Family from the Digital Age
By Peter Demos Published on November 26, 2025 What if the biggest threat to your family isn’t culture, politics, or education— but the smartphone in your pocket? In this 35-minute episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, media expert and…
Confronting Blasphemous Gay Activists at a Church
Leftists are no longer content with simply pushing the LGBT agenda onto conservative religious believers. They’ve escalated their attacks on religion and God. They’re engaging in gleeful public displays of bigotry meant to anger and humiliate…
8 Global Trends That Will Transform the Future Church
As we cross the threshold of a rapidly shifting global landscape, the Church must prepare itself for tectonic changes that will redefine its mission, methods, and missiology. We are living in a kairos moment—a window of divine opportunity—where…