Part of a Christian's Job is to Point Out that Modern Life Stinks

Things are bad. Cultural apologetics should say so.

The most controversial thing I wrote in 2023 was “The Church in a Time of Gender War,” a piece that generated a lot of feedback to me personally, and I suspect partly inspired other posts like this one. Some people thanked me for it. Some people gently pushed back. A handful got angry. But interestingly, almost no one (that I saw) disputed the piece’s m…