Evan Lenow

Evan Lenow serves as Director of Church and Minister Relations and Associate Professor of Christian Studies at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. He is also the director of the Clinton Extension Center for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds a B.A. in Communication from Mississippi College and an M.Div. in Advanced Biblical Studies and a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife Melanie, along with their four children, live in Clinton, Mississippi.

LGBTQ Article

How to exercise parental rights in a pro-LGBTQ culture

by Evan Lenow

For the last couple of years, the volume has increased over concerns related to parental rights, especially at public schools. What focused for a time as concerns over in-person education and the use of masks during the pandemic has quickly returned to concerns over matters of sexuality and gender. In the wake of these concerns, …
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Parenting Article

How parents can engage local public schools

by Evan Lenow

Should parents be able to dictate what schools teach their children? Should schools be able to hide information about a student from their parents? What rights and responsibilities do parents have when it comes to engaging the public schools in their area? These are not new questions for Christian parents, but the frequency with which …
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Sexuality Article

What to do when new transgender guidelines affect your child’s school

by Evan Lenow

Cowtown, Texas (a.k.a. Fort Worth) is generally a fairly quiet place to live. For nearly a decade, I have called this place home. Three of my four children are native-born Texans. While every city has its warts, I have thoroughly enjoyed the slow-paced, down-to-earth culture of the place where the West begins. However, in recent …
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Family Article

Baseball and the State of the American Family

by Evan Lenow

Two seasons ago, I took my dad to a Major League Baseball game. My parents had come to town for a visit, and I had two tickets to a game. My dad and I sat in the stands watching the Texas Rangers and talked. We talked about life and baseball—especially where they intersected. It was …
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Apologetics Article

Taking the roof off: The apologetics of Francis Schaeffer

by Evan Lenow

My parents had a hardback version of Francis Scaheffer’s How Should We Then Live? sitting on a shelf in our house. It was a large, beautiful book, but I never took the time to read it. Honestly, the title never made sense to me as a child, and I had little interest in reading anything …
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Abortion Article

Abortion and Self-Ownership

by Evan Lenow

Last July I boarded a bus and drove down to Austin for a pro-life rally on the steps of the Texas State Capitol. We arrived more than an hour before the scheduled start time of the rally, so I had the opportunity to take in my surroundings and observe the arguments being made by the …
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End Of Life Issues Article

A moral ‘right’ to die?

by Evan Lenow

The Pew Research Center has released results of a study on views of end of life medical treatment. Among the findings is how different faith groups view the morality of ending life. A fourth of evangelicals believe a person has a moral right to suicide if he or she “is ready to die, living is …
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