A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
Suffer the children
Some say the growing rush to label children ‘transgender’ promotes physician-approved child abuse. But speaking out against the practice provokes ire. Who will defend the vulnerable?
Sounding the alarm
Many transgender persons regret what they did to their bodies and souls, and some are pleading that others not repeat their mistake
Walt’s story
Walt Heyer is a man again, and he has a manly purpose: protect the vulnerable from the transgender movement
Trump vs. conservatives
Will the healthcare fight set a tone for major fiscal fights ahead?
Voices
Joel Belz
Making it up
I’ve mentioned before in this space the dismal reality that sooner or later confronts almost every honest journalist. It’s the reminder that nothing spoils a good story like a little research. ...
The Editors
Mailbag
‘The great tragedy of South Sudan’ ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Living skillfully
When I worked at The Golden Spike one summer in the ’70s, one head waitress could breeze through the dining room and spot what every table needed. I could not. It was a short gig. ...
Marvin Olasky
Unfair fight
Welfare reform partially succeeded in the 1990s when legislators stopped haranguing about “welfare queens” gaming the system and started showing how governmental payments harmed the poor. We need a...
Mindy Belz
Wars and rumors of wars
One hundred years ago this month the United States entered World War I, what we still call the Great War. Worldwide more than 70 million military personnel joined the 1914-1918 conflict, and more than...
Janie B. Cheaney
The wrong side of idealism
Stephen Decatur, one of our first national heroes, distinguished himself during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, became captain of the USS Constitution at the age of 25, and proposed a famous...
Notebook
Health
Late to bed, early to rise?
King David promised to “awaken the dawn” and offered elsewhere in the Psalms that he would “both lie down in peace, and sleep.” Plenty of us are doing the former, but many of us aren’t doing enough of...
Education
Accounts receivable?
PORTER, Texas—Seth Franklin, 12, pointed to the shiny pin on the collar of his baby-blue Civil Air Patrol uniform shirt and listed some of what he had to do to earn it: sprints, push-ups, sit-ups. He...
Religion
Officers of the church
Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Ala., is pushing for the Alabama Legislature to pass a law allowing it and other churches to have their own police departments. Many colleges and...
Technology
Power painkiller
Migraine sufferers will tell you how their intense, painful headaches can last up to 72 hours, disrupting daily routines and leaving them miserable. While there is no cure for migraines, recent...
Culture
Music
Just like ringing a bell
Chuck Berry died on March 18. Without him, something called “rock ’n’ roll” might still have come along, but it would’ve sounded different. And it almost certainly wouldn’t have sounded as good. ...
Movies & TV
Dispassionate drama
Here’s a riddle: When will a streaming video company, known for producing several sexually explicit prestige dramas, elect not to capitalize on the love scenes in its source material? The answer,...
Movies & TV
To raise up a prodigy
It’s tough enough to raise a kid. It’s tougher when that kid is a 7-year-old sassy mathematical genius who passes advanced calculus before first grade and bloodies a bully’s nose on the school bus....
Movies & TV
Opened eyes
Between being the best part of the blockbuster Beauty and the Beast on the big screen and earning critical acclaim for his trippy superhero Legion on the small screen, Dan Stevens has officially...
Movies & TV
Apologetics journalism
Based on Lee Strobel’s best-selling book of the same name, The Case for Christ follows Strobel’s real-life “Road to Damascus” while on an investigation to expose Christianity as “all a big con.” ...
Children's Books
Blasts from the past
Steamboat School ...
Books
Recent Christian books
Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic ...
Books
Jerusalem vs. Babylon
My grandfather believed God inspired the Hebrew Bible. My father did also, until he majored in anthropology at Harvard just before World War II and came away writing in his senior thesis that the...
Music
Noteworthy recent albums
One Drop Became An Ocean ...
Q&A
Mutual mission
Yitzchok Adlerstein, director of interfaith affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, is an Orthodox rabbi who says he used to propagate “untruth” about Christians but is now “addicted to...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Chickens of charity ...
Human Race
Human Race
Remembered ...
Quotables
Quotables
‘The Big Band era is my era. … I loved the big bands.’ ...
News
By the numbers
800 The number of people arrested in an anti-government protest in Moscow on March 26, according to OVD-Info. 175 million tons The amount the U.S. energy sector’s carbon dioxide emissions fel...