The points of contact / tension between the dominant culture and Christianity continue to increase in number and intensity. Recently, I was interviewed by Pastor Bryan Stecker of Trinity, Waconia for his podcast series, “On the Line,” during which we touched on many of these “points of contact.” Click here to view it.

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What does it look like … what does it feel like to be pushed to the margins of society? Well, of course, for Christians, things have been moving in this direction for quite a few years now, but it appears that this may become a much more felt reality for all of us in the near future.

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 “We’re not in Kansas anymore!”  This familiar line from the Wizard of Oz has, of course, become a shorthand way of indicating that something around us has fundamentally changed … that, in one way or another, we’re no longer living in the same world we were before.  More and more, I believe this is an apt description for the cultural circumstance we Americans find ourselves in recently.

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Once again January 22 approaches, reminding us of that infamous day in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court rendered its decision in Roe v. Wade. It was a decision which tore our nation apart as it falsely declared that some human beings are unworthy of life simply by virtue of their age. But, thanks be to God, that ruling was overturned in the Dobbs case. But what does the date, January 22, signify today?

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As the current societal struggle between those who hold a traditional, Judeo-Christian based view of America and those who hold one running counter to those beliefs intensifies, it becomes increasingly obvious that, here in Minnesota, the primary locus of this showdown is our schools, and, by extension, our kids.

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