Posts by Kevin Schaal
Are We Living Out Romans 1? | Desiring God
I was 35 years old, called myself a lesbian, and worked as an activist and English professor in New York when I first encountered these words from Romans 1: God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for…
Read MoreShould ‘broken’ genes be fixed? My daughter changed my thinking – STAT
My training as a physician-scientist likely would have nudged me to use technology to remove or fix Ruthie if we had been given the chance. But having Ruthie in our lives offers Palmer and me a perspective we could not have had before she arrived. We know that Ruthie’s presence in this world makes…
Read MoreWATCH: Viral video shows Christian pastor calling out ‘woke’ churches silent on abortion | News | LifeSite
A video has gone viral online of a Christian pastor in Raleigh, North Carolina, calling out so-called “woke” churches who fail to speak out on the eugenic agenda of the founder of the world’s largest abortion corporation. Source: WATCH: Viral video shows Christian pastor calling out ‘woke’ churches silent on abortion | News | LifeSite
Read MoreDon’t Let Leah Sharibu Be Forgotten | RealClearReligion
Today marks two years since Boko Haram militants stormed a girls’ school in Northern Nigeria and kidnapped more than 100 girls, among them Christian teenager Leah Sharibu. Five of the abducted girls died and the others were released through back-channel efforts, but Leah remains in captivity, held by a terrorist group that oscillates between threatening…
Read MoreBYU removes ‘homosexual behavior’ as an honor code violation – CNN
When the Bible is not your authority, not only can you justify false doctrine, everything you believe and do is changeable. (KSchaal). Same-sex couples at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University have long been told they couldn’t hug, hold hands, kiss or date in public. If they did, they’d risk an investigation by the feared Honor…
Read MoreWas the Nuclear Family a Mistake?
As the years go by in the movie, the extended family plays a smaller and smaller role. By the 1960s, there’s no extended family at Thanksgiving. It’s just a young father and mother and their son and daughter, eating turkey off trays in front of the television. In the final scene, the main character is…
Read MoreNigeria: 5 churches burned, many Christians killed in Boko Haram invasion – The Christian Post
More than 100 Boko Haram militants opened fire sporadically and indiscriminately and set churches and houses on fire, killing many people, in the town of Garkida in Gombi area of the northeastern state of Adamawa, according to initial reports.At least five churches were destroyed, including two houses of worship belonging to the Church of the…
Read MoreWhy Baptists Believe in Separation of Church and State
As the election draws near the discussion about the appropriate protection of religious freedoms will continue to rage. This topic matters to us—a lot. Religious freedom is a historical novelty and is still denied to billions in our world today. Most credit the historical genesis of the idea of the separation of Church and State…
Read MoreBoys Will Be Girls … and Feminists Will Be Furious | RealClearInvestigations
The confusion in our world today is incredible. This investigation is evidence of that (KSchaal). Specifically, the ire of trans activists and their supporters has been aroused by some basic positions taken by WoLF and others, namely: 1) that a person’s sex is biologically determined and can’t be changed, even by surgery; and 2) that…
Read MorePolyamory: Pastors’ Next Sexual Frontier | Christianity Today
A pastor recently told me (Preston) about Tyler and Amanda (names changed), high-school sweethearts raised in Christian homes, living in the Bible belt. After getting married, they seemed to be living the American dream with a house, good jobs, and two kids. Then Jon, a friend of Tyler’s, began living with their family. Amanda developed…
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