April 20, 2026

The church is asking today whether it still knows what it's supposed to be protecting — its people, its foundations, its time, its children. The Gospel Coalition ran a piece on evangelical drift, arguing that the Cambridge Declaration still matters because the rot is doctrinal before it's cultural. Ligonier is saying something adjacent: Christians are wasting time, and the waste isn't neutral — it's formational in the wrong direction. That question hasn't gone away. On March 30 we were watching the same tension between pace and formation surface from a different angle. What's sharper today is the sense of accumulation — drift in doctrine, drift in attention, drift in how we raise our kids. Two pieces at TGC on AI and parenting land hard: the technology isn't just distracting children, it's reshaping how they understand relationship, identity, and truth. Proactive is the word both pieces use. The church has not historically been good at proactive.

Mere Orthodoxy published something that cuts against the grain of a lot of current Christian cultural commentary. The argument: reenchantment isn't enough. You can't fix what rationalism broke by making faith feel more atmospheric. That's a direct challenge to a whole genre of writing that's been popular in certain evangelical and post-evangelical circles for years. Elsewhere, a Louisiana father shot and killed eight children in a domestic violence massacre — BBC News had the report. The Aquila Report ran a piece the same day on cognitive decline and human dignity, insisting the image of God doesn't erode with memory. We've been circling that conviction since March 24. Today it lands differently. Eight children are dead, and the church is being asked — again — what it actually believes about the weight of a human life and who shows up when everything falls apart.