Contemporary Social Issues

Tiffany Bluhm wishes this wasn't her story to tell. Yet like many women today who are taking action against sexual harassment and sexual assault, i...

For more than a millennium, beginning in the early Middle Ages, most Western Christians lived in societies that sought to be comprehensively Christ...

Almost every pastor feels the pressure to get people in the doors. More people means Christians are constantly accused of being too political or no...

The text of this beautifully design gift book is largely based on Sheridan Voysey’s contributions to the BBC Radio 2 Pause for Thought radio progra...

As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that we are a Moral Majority. That may be bad news for America, but it ca...

Oneness is hard achieve. Let the kingdom unity of Scripture point the way. Today’s world is torn apart. Tension is everywhere. Brother is pitted ag...

Reggie Dabbs and John Driver--a Black man and a white man, and longtime friends--engage in a courageous, respectfully honest, challenging explorati...

News outlets, historians, and sociologists can (and do) tell us all about the statistics, but they don't (and can't) tell us about what it's really...

Keep Swimming Against the Tide of a Sinking Culture In No Reason to Hide, bestselling author Erwin W. Lutzer examines the culture-wide spiritual fr...

Will You Be Complicit, Complacent, or Courageous? In a culture with an ever-narrowing understanding of tolerance, Christians can no longer remain s...

C. Herbert Oliver, a Black civil rights leader from Birmingham, Alabama, spent thirteen years rethinking the racial ideologies of his day before wr...

Technology is not neutral. From the plow to the printing press, technology has always shaped human life and informed our understanding of what it m...

This book takes a distinctive approach to the same-sex-union debate by framing the issue as a matter of marriage. Darrin Snyder Belousek demonstrat...

“The abortion debate raises sensitive issues, and often provokes strong reactions on both sides of the argument. As we consider the Bible’s teachin...

What does it look like to love someone you disagree with? Fighting, disagreements, hatred, dissension, and silence. These things seem common in the...

Why the call to Love Thy Body? To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories:Transgenderism: Ac...

Living in a Gray World: A Christian Teen's Guide to Understanding Homosexuality is an honest, accessible resource for Christian teens who have lesb...

We are surrounded by lies. They are incorporated into the worldview of our culture. We daily absorb them, and these lies can have deadly effects on...

Christians are often thought of as defending only their own religious interests in the public square. They are viewed as worrying exclusively about...

Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom as we enter an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversari...

Between social media platforms, the videos kids watch online, or the television shows they can now stream from anywhere at any time, keeping up wit...

Before you can do what’s right, you have to see what’s right. When it comes to racial reconciliation, we often ask, “Where do we go from here?” But...

The 2020 murder of George Floyd ignited a racial firestorm throughout America, provoking lament and grief over a long history of tragedy. The wides...

It is one of our favorite questions: Is God a Republican or a Democrat? “Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they sh...

Christians love to talk about politics, but the current conversation is full of contentious words that divide our churches and families. Dr. Tony E...

We love God. We love our country. What does it look like to love each properly and well? National tensions are at a record high. People on all poin...

With so many issue swirling about and what seems to be a constant stream of negative stories about culture and society, Joyfully Lutheran is a bold...

Jesus for President is a radical manifesto to awaken the Christian political imagination, reminding us that our ultimate hope lies not in partisan ...

The world seems more fractured each day. People are asking, "Is this the End?" Never have the headlines been this jarring, the cultural changes th...

In this updated 10th Anniversary Edition of Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne uses unconventional examples from his own life to stir up ques...

Our communities are disintegrating, as the loss of meaningful work and the breakdown of the family leave us anxious and alone—indeed, half of all A...

Dear Mommy… So begins the correspondence from an unborn baby to her mother. Making an impassioned plea to her mother to not abort her, she shares h...

Hunger is one of the most significant issues in America. One in eight Americans struggles with hunger, and more than thirteen million children live...

The How to Fight Racism Study Guide, used together with the How to Fight Racism Video Study, provides groups and individuals with practical tools a...

How can we move forward amid such political strife and cultural contention?   We live in a time of division. It shows up not just between political...

We live in a time of division. It shows up not just between political parties and ethnic groups and churches but also inside of them. As Christians...

The world constantly throws up new challenges about what it means to be Christian and to live a distinctively Christian lifestyle. The priest, b...

Every week a terrorist attack, riot, or political scandal makes the headlines-and we feel the world around us shaking again. We struggle to separat...

Part narrative, part wartime dispatch, Hope for Ukraine transports you into the gritty reality of war-torn Ukraine--and the front lines of faith, s...

Is it possible our world has gone mad? We are under siege and the war is not from without; it is from within. The collapse of the Roman Empire occu...

Our culture has lost its mind. Now, we are waging a bigger fight—a war for our soul. Is it possible our world has gone mad? We are under siege and ...

Do conservatives or progressives “own” the teachings about what the Bible says about human sexuality and marriage? For some—perhaps a vocal minorit...

Discover your place in the pro-life movement. What if we lived in a world where every woman with an unplanned pregnancy always felt empowered to ch...

Religious faith reduces the risk of suicide for virtually every American demographic except one: LGBTQ people. Generations of LGBTQ people have bee...