Campus Identity Politics Is Dooming Liberal Causes, a Professor Charges
"American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender, and sexual identity that has distorted liberalism’s message and prevented it from becoming a unifying force."
America has a long history of anti-intellectualism, but this election revealed widespread distrust and hostility toward expertise, and the institutions, like universities, that produce it. Are scholars trusted less than ever? Absolutely. Part of that is due to the public image of the university as being full of spoiled, privileged professors and students who are... Continue Reading
Learn To Serve On The Mission Field By First Serving At Home
If you do not love the lost in your own culture you will have difficulty learning to love them in a new culture.
The experience you gain in serving in your own culture will benefit your ministry on the mission field. Indeed, sinners, cultures and situations are different throughout the globe. However, the joys and the pain you experience will develop a heart and knowledge of service which will benefit your ministry anywhere in the world. A... Continue Reading
The Great Trinitarian Debate
Teaching the importance of the Trinitarian nature of God and its relevance for doctrine and life.
Today, Tenth has again been called to take on a serious challenge to the faith we hold dear. It is our privilege to take up ‘arms’ for our King in a battle far more foundational than those two huge debates of the 20th Century – the Doctrine of God and the full deity of Jesus Christ.... Continue Reading
Remember the Christian Bakers
Liberals have suddenly become champions of people being allowed to decline participating in something if it violated their conscience.
Surprising, indeed, after years of Christian bakers and pizza parlors being targeted for destruction by the gay left for refusing to participate in something because it opposed their conscience and faith. Then came the Radio City Rockettes, the world-famous dancers who with one swift move, seem to have illuminated the hypocrisy of some liberals, albeit... Continue Reading
Advent In The Deathworks
Our elites are characterized by their pursuit of de-creation — an unending total war against the sacred order and its adherents
We could call this a culture war, except that it is a war between culture and anti-culture, a de-creation or de-culturalization. Legutko describes these people, despite their prestige and power, as “a homo novus, uneducated, vulgar, primitive, having nothing but contempt for tradition … for history, culture, and anything subtle, genteel, elegant, beautiful, or spiritual.”... Continue Reading
Trueman, Kaiser, Vos and Christ-Centered Preaching
To end a sermon on a moral exhortation is verboden, undermining the message of redemptive-history
“Yes, Geerhardus Vos, whose biblical theological method is the bedrock for much Reformed Christocentric preaching these days, preached non-Christocentric sermons. At least three, at any rate. I have not read all his sermons, but it only takes a few counter-examples to prove that Vos was not the father of modern Christ-centered preaching.” My three-part... Continue Reading
Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing
Some evangelicals — even those who didn’t support Trump — continue to defend the evangelical label and argue that it should mean far more than a conservative political expression
“From Civil Rights to Vietnam to abortion to gay rights, from national defense to tax policy to climate change to health care and on and on, white evangelicals have solidly and consistently championed the most conservative positions. Where some white evangelicals have at times been found on the other side of these issues, they have... Continue Reading
If You Don’t ‘Get’ Religion, You Can’t ‘Get’ America or the World
Why is so much media coverage of religion so dumb?
“In much coverage of American Christianity, this mindset is obvious: You believe that God ordained marriage as the union of a man and a woman? Well, that’s just bigotry in search of a belief system, religion wielded as a club against the marginalized.” Honesty is a wonderful thing. Last week, during an interview with... Continue Reading
Perseverance of the Saints: Receiving in Order to Continue
Our being never occupies a realm of reality outside of God’s sovereign sustaining
“This is why it is perhaps helpful to speak of the preservation of the Christian by God before speaking of the Christian’s perseverance. Yet, even as we do this we need to be clear about what the Christian is persevering in doing. Put another way, what does God’s preservation of his covenant people, the bride... Continue Reading
Dissenters Can’t Take Central Presbyterian Property With Them If They Leave Denomination, Commission Says
The commission has also recommended that church administrators “dissolve the pastoral calls” of Central Presbyterian Church teaching elders
“Dissent over the Presbyterian Church (USA) stance on same-sex marriage and other issues began years ago. Then in 2015 the session — similar to a board of deacons — of Central Presbyterian Church formally requested “dismissal with property” from the Presbyterian Church (USA) in late 2015, saying they wanted to affiliate with the Covenant Order... Continue Reading