Daniel Darling is a bestselling author, pastor, and podcast host.
Now that the nearly 50-year struggle to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to pass laws that recognize the unborn has proven successful, where does family-based conservatism go from here? The Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe comes at a time when the conservative movement was already debating what it believes, as the unsteady three-legged stool of robust foreign policy, social conservatism and economic freedom has been knocked over in favor of the burgeoning populism of the New Right. Those debates will undoubtedly continue, but I’d like to suggest that we are in a moment when shaping our policy…
Continue ReadingWhy I’m Hopeful About the Evangelical Movement – USA Today
November 11, 2021In 1976, the cover of Newsweek declared that, with a presidential election that featured the born-again Jimmy Carter, it was the “Year of the Evangelical.” Forty-five years later, the news media fascination with my spiritual family has not abated. From the heady days of 2004, when once again evangelicals were crowned a defining political force, to this moment when a cottage industry of books laments our influence, the world has looked in on us and we have looked in on ourselves and have asked a perennial question, “What is our future?” In one sense, this is a question born out of a variety of factors owing to…
Continue ReadingA New Season and a Time to Build
October 26, 2021Today it was announced what is next for me and my family. I’ve accepted a position as Director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. I’ll also be serving as assistant professor of faith and culture at Texas Baptist College. I’ll continue to write for World Magazine as a columnist and contribute to USA Today. It’s a bittersweet moment. The bitter is the fact that we are leaving our home in Tennessee and moving to Fort Worth. We have absolutely loved Nashville, as it has been our home for eight years. We love our community and our church at Green Hill,…
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The Way Home Podcast: Mark Sayers on Leadership in this Cultural Moment
November 10, 2022Today we have Mark Sayers joining us on The Way Home podcast. Mark is the senior leader of Red Church in Melbourne, Australia. In his newest book A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World Will Create a Remnant of Renewed…
Continue ReadingToday we have Alisa Childers joining us on The Way Home podcast. Alisa Childers is a wife, a mom, an author, a blogger, a speaker, and a worship leader. Her newest book called Live Your Truth and Other Lies: Exposing Popular Deceptions…
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