I’ve Seen This Evil Before, and I Recognize It This Time, Too

THIS WEEK FROM THE STREAM March 4, 2021

I’ve Seen This Evil Before, and I Recognize It This Time, Too Chenyuan Snider March 3, 2021 I grew up in China, a totalitarian society where freedom was absent. Without basic human rights and the protection of law, life was unpredictable and complicated. We had to learn to navigate among intricate relationships to avoid various pitfalls and misfortunes. We learned the many practices that would allow us to see through government deception. Most people became good at it. They understood what was really going on. Now, though, I live in America, the freest country on earth, with a great Constitution protecting the rights of the citizen. I love America. I enjoy and appreciate the freedom it provides. Having grown up in a tyrannical society, though, I have a different perspective on the danger freedom has brought on Americans, and on Christians in particular. While freedom is desirable and rightly sought-after, it has unfortunately also dulled American Christians’ aptitude and willingness to recognize evil, let alone confront it. For me, this has become the grimmest reality since 2020. Continue Reading... Please Support The Stream: Equipping Christians to Think Clearly About the Political, Economic and Moral Issues of Our Day. I Knew the Name of the Dragon Mark Judge March 1, 2021 On the night of September 14, 2018, I got a call from Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker. My high school friend Brett Kavanaugh had been nominated for the Supreme Court on July 9. Farrow was calling to tell me that Brett and I had been named in a letter claiming “sexual misconduct in the 1980s.” For the entire summer of 2018 Ford had been working with an opposition researcher named Keith Koegler. According to The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, Koegeler had “spent many hours that summer poring over news coverage of the nomination process, biographical information about Kavanaugh, and writings and videos produced by Mark Judge.” Their plan was simple: Entangle my life, which has included a struggle with alcoholism when I was younger, with the life of Brett Kavanaugh. It was an oppo research hit whose lynchpin was me crumbling, babbling, and using my life to take my friend down, even if he had nothing to do with my struggles. There was one thing they weren’t expecting. They didn’t think I would know the dragon’s true name. Continue Reading... Could an Obscure Seattle Law Be Big Tech’s Undoing? Caitlin Bassett February 28, 2021 Last week Amazon spiked a book critical of transgender policy. The book — When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement, by Ryan T. Anderson. Amazon removed it without warning or explanation. Amazon has breached free speech principles before. In the past two years, they banned products, films and ad campaigns for ideas it deems “objectionable.” Nor is Amazon alone. Facebook, Twitter and Apple are also in the news for similarly questionable moves. Big Tech’s power to censor seems unstoppable. But maybe it isn’t. Continue Reading...   Is Your Church Bookstore Selling Products Made by … Slaves? Jason Scott Jones March 1, 2021 Reports from China indicate that slaves who make many of our products are victims of torture, rape, forced abortions and sterilizations, organ harvesting, and summary execution. These include religious products: rosaries, crosses, inspirational plaques with Bible verses. Your refrigerator magnet that says, “The Truth Shall Set You Free”? It might well have made by a man or woman in chains. As a Christian, I am appalled that so many articles I find in church-run book stores are made in China. The home of hundreds of concentration camps and a 21st-Century genocide should not be getting rich off believers. Continue Reading... POPULAR THIS WEEK   Agnostics, Orthodox Jews, Catholics and Evangelicals Agree: ‘Equality Act’ is Dangerous to Human Rights MICHAEL BROWN     Why Do 1 in 6 Gen-Z Adults Identify as LGBT? MICHAEL BROWN     Can Yale Be Saved? Can Its Graduates? JOHN ZMIRAK     This is What Idolatry Looks Like MICHAEL BROWN     Time Magazine Article Celebrates ‘Conspiracy’ to Fix 2020 Election AL PERROTTA     Do We Want Trump to Run Again? The Top 10 Questions to Ask in His Job Interview JOHN ZMIRAK     An Appeal to Bethany Christian Services to Reconsider Their Decision Regarding Gay Adoption MICHAEL BROWN     Our Therapeutic Culture Downplays the Evil Nature of Addiction MARK JUDGE     Why Did the US Just Bomb Iran-Backed Militants in Syria? JOHN ZMIRAK     This False ‘Evangelical’ Rebuke to White Evangelicals Needs Its Own Rebuke TOM GILSON FEATURED AUTHORS THIS WEEK Chenyuan Snider LATEST ARTICLES Why Romantic Love Exists February 13, 2021 Critical Race Theory Threatens the Core of American Freedom November 21, 2020 The Wreckage of Socialism is Not Just Economic October 27, 2020 Mark Judge LATEST ARTICLES Morning Bombhole: Joe Scarborough and Our Broken Media February 19, 2021 Debating U2, Rock and Roll and Christian Conversion February 14, 2021 The Rehabilitation of Hunter Biden February 5, 2021 NOTE FROM THE STREAM Daily online publishing and social media engagement is costly. If you believe in The Stream and our purpose, please support us both with your prayers and with faithful gifts. You may give monthly or periodically, online or by mail. We trust God and know He uses people as instruments of provision and blessing. You can click here or on the donate button below if you would like to support The Stream. 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