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Why Youth Are Walking Away from Biblical Sexuality and What Parents Can Do about It
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 45, number 2/3 (2022). For further information or to support the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team of to help provide the...
Second Thoughts About Recovered Memories
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume ##, number ## (####). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. We’ve all heard the stories – dramatic tales of people who assumed they had happy childhoods, only...
What Does True Worship Look Like? with Nathan Jacobs, Hank Hanegraaff, and Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan
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A Graphic Redemption: a film review of The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson (Icon Distribution, 2003)
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 01 (2004). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. The Passion of the Christ is the most moving and memorable portrayal of Jesus Christ that I have...
Heretics! What Divides Christians? with Francis Chan, Hank Hanegraaff and Metropolitan Yohan
Please see the video interview here! Heretic! Hank Hanegraaff, Francis Chan and Metropolitan Yohan have all been accused of being heretics. The backlash that Francis Chan received after making comments about the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist was the...
Synergism and Divine Hiddenness
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Solo Sex and the Christian: Is Masturbation Permitted?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 41, number 5 (2018). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. SYNOPSIS Although masturbation (solo sex) is a nearly universal behavior, it is...
The Yoga Boom: A Call for Christian Discernment – Part 1
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Now What? Same-Sex Marriage and Today’s Church
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Time May Change Me, But I Can’t Change Time: Reversing Time to Understand Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
A Film Review of Tenet Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan (Rated PG-13, 2020) This is an online-exclusive from the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you to subscribe to...
On Grace, Salvation and Prayer with Nathan Jacobs, Hank Hanegraaff, and Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan
Please see video interview here. Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, is joined by Nathan Jacobs and Metropolitan K.P. Yohannan for the second in a series of wide-ranging roundtable discussions. A professor,...
Evangelism 2.0: The Internet Mission Field
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 01 (2010). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. The universe of digital information created, captured, or...
The Importance of Women in the Church
Streamed live on March 29th, 2018 Mary? Mary Magdalene? Martha? Lydia? Phoebe? Who are they, and why do they matter? Sometimes, women feel they have gotten slighted in the Christian narrative. That could not be further from the truth. Join us as we talk about the...
Ambiguous Islam
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The Rise of the American Jihadist
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 38, number 01 (2015). For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ SYNOPSIS There is a disturbing trend among...
Healing the Divide: Moving Forward after the Election
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 40, number 01 (2017). Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared by all...
Why Do I Call Myself Good? A Look at Virtue Signaling
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Do Altar Calls Add To The Gospel?
This is an online-exclusive Viewpoint from the Christian Research Journal. Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared by all Christians, with the intended result that...
Spiritual Friendship: Temptation or Belonging?
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Materialism for the Masses: Cosmos Reboot Distorts the History of Science and Scrubs Evidence for Intelligent Design
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Examining Muslim Apologetics
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 3 (2003). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS As Christians encounter Islamic apologetics the topic quickly...
A Christian Apologist Responds to Sam Smith and Kim Petras’s Satanic Grammy Performance
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A Post 9/11 Look at Islam
This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 25, number 1 (2002). For further information about the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Is the Islamic faith a violent religion? Are all Muslims...
Overcoming the Enemy of Education: A Review of Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, ‘Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation.’
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Spirituality in Modern Hip Hop: The Theology of Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper
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The Batman and the Banality of Vengeance
The Batman Directed by Matt Reeves Written by Matt Reeves and Peter Craig Warner Bros. Pictures Rated PG–13 **Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for The Batman.** This is an online-exclusive from the Christian Research Journal. For further...
Medical Marijuana: Miracle Drug or Spiritual Poison?
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Scientology Under Fire
Most companies—and even many religious organizations—work to enhance their image through public relations. But over the years the Church of Scientology, a religious group that some have accused of acting more like a powerful corporation than a church, has...
Love Wins: Making a Contradictory Case for Universalism
This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 34, number 04 (2011). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Pastor and author Rob Bell is a phenomenon hard to avoid. His best-selling...
Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology with Noelle Mering
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What Has Athens to do With America?: A Case for Cultural Apologetics
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#Witchtok-Sorcery at Your Fingertips
This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 45, number 2/3 (2022). For further information or to support the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you support the Journal, you join...
Am I Just Not Chosen? The Disorientation of Deconversion
This is an exclusive online feature article from the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal, please click here. One of the crossroads of my life occurred on a couch in the central foyer of the English...
“Gross National Cool”: Manga as Theological Reflection
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Does the Bible Dictate Clothing Style by Gender? Cross Dressing and the Gender Binary
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Culturally Corrosive Comedy
This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 02 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS The culturally corrosive comedy in Comedy Central's popular TV...
Dumbing Down, Blowing Up
This article first appeared in the January 2000 issue of the Christian Research Report. For further information go to: http://www.equip.org As I watched reports of the Columbine killings, the title of Robert Bork’s book, Slouching towards Gomorrah1, pulsated like neon...
An Ethic of Instagram
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Why are we down here still working in the dark? (A Web TV Series Review of Severance)
Severance Created by Dan Erickson Executive producers: Ben Stiller, Nicholas Weinstock, Jackie Cohn, Mark Friedman, Dan Erickson, Andrew Colville, Chris Black, John Cameron Streaming on APPLE TV+ (TV–MA, 2022–) ***Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for...
Identity, Terminology, and the Revoice Conference
(see Part One of this series). Synopsis After Exodus International, the largest and most prominent ministry to address homosexuality, closed its doors in 2013, the public, both Christian and secular, became more skeptical about the possibility of homosexuals “going...
The Bondage Maker: Examining The Message and Method of Neil T. Anderson. Part Four: Spiritual Warfare and the Myth of Satanic Conspiracies and Ritual Abuse
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 21, number 4 (1999). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SUMMARY Neil T. Anderson’s promotion of unverified demonic activities...
The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World with Brett McCracken
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The Woke Revolution and the Demise of Western Civilization
This article first appeared in the From the President Column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 46, number 1/2 (2023). For further information or to support the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team of...
Episode 098 Virtual Violence, Video Game Addiction, and the Kingdom of God
“Recently the World Health Organization added 'Gaming Disorder' to the 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11)3 — a tool for diagnosing diseases. Combine this with the many parents dismayed by their children’s obsession with the video game Fortnite, and...
Visualization: God-Given Power or New Age Danger?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 19, number 1 (Summer 1996). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SUMMARY Visualization is the use of mental concentration and directed imagery in the...