Can We Learn from a Catholic Convert?
Not to worry, I'm not swimming the Tiber but....
A healthy Reformed version of a religion that works is confidence in the ordinary means of grace. You go to worship confident that God does work though the Word, sacraments, and prayers. No, these are not alive apart from the work of the Spirit, but it is not presumptuous to believe that ordinarily the Spirit... Continue Reading
Who Speaks for Complementarian Christians?
For me, it's not the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. It's the local church.
I don’t take my cues from CBMW. Instead, I submit to the authority of my local church. Because they know me and the city in which I live, they are best suited for the role of shepherd. My theological struggles over gender roles (and I have them!) will have to be hammered out at Grace... Continue Reading
In All the Noise, Sounds of Silence
Too often the church has failed to be profound in the profound debate over gay marriage
That’s why the silence and acquiescence in many evangelical churches is so profoundly disturbing and dismantling. The refusal of too many pastors and seminaries to teach clearly on why homosexuality cannot be the basis for marriage—the fear to be accused of bigotry—has left shrill voices and violent haters filling the public square. And it’s left... Continue Reading
All We Want is the Freedom to Coexist
The Homosexual community: all we want is equal treatment under the law
The Homosexual agenda is not mere acceptance; it is moral celebration. Rather than being willing to live in peace with those of us whose deepest, most personal convictions compel us to say no to their choices, the Homosexual agenda demands that we deny and reject our beliefs and instead adopt and celebrate theirs. “All... Continue Reading
Three More Thoughts on the Gay Marriage Debate
A few reflections on why Christians need to be engaged in the gay marriage debate
The church is sometimes the most vibrant, the most articulate, and the most holy when the world presses down on her most…. We’re going to need a good dose of the fundamentalist obstinacy that most evangelicals love to lampoon. The challenge before the church is to convince ourselves, as much as anyone, that believing the... Continue Reading
Florida’s New Jim Crow Education System
Florida’s race-based education standards are immoral and an affront to human dignity
The Florida plan encourages teachers and administrators to view their children by racial traits first and foremost instead of seeing them as unique individual creatures with wonderful non-racial potentialities. Unfortunately, because of the financing of public education most parents of color in Florida have neither the political nor economic power to remove their children from... Continue Reading
Gay Marriage: You Will Be Made To Care
“At some point the world will make us choose. And if we choose Christ the world will accuse us of hating, condemning, and judging.”
“Already Christians are being harassed by fellow American citizens for not wanting to participate in a gay marriage. The time will come, more quickly than you can imagine, when you will be made to care. … Evil peddles tolerance until it is dominant, then seeks to silence good. That’s why Christians fight on this issue.... Continue Reading
Federal Vision, Peter Leithart & the Reality of Doctrinal Standards in the PCA
I love the PCA, but I am perplexed and heart-broken by the SJC's decision to uphold the Pacific Northwest Presbytery's exoneration of Peter Leithart
I really do love the PCA. I want to believe the best of my fathers and brothers on the SJC. I have tremendous respect for them and great sympathy for the position the PNWP put them in. But ultimately, when it comes to guarding the doctrinal integrity of the PCA, the buck stops with the... Continue Reading
Thoughts on Same-Sex Marriage, Part I: The Politics of Rights and “Ressentment”
“Ressentiment”: confusion about rights versus privilege, and confusion over whether the issue is civil or religious in nature
In the present conversation, proponents of state recognition of same-sex unions routinely suggest that their “rights” are being violated or “taken away” unless same-sex marriage is approved. Such a claim inflames ressentiment, but it adds little to the discussion, and is, in fact, erroneous. To which right, precisely, does this claim refer? Does the Bill... Continue Reading
“Marriage Equality” – An Irony
It is hard to miss the prevailing trends toward marriage devaluation
In the end, marriage confusion will be the order of the day, all because our society didn’t clarify or value natural marriage in the first place. If the litigious ramifications were to lead state and federal governments to “wash their hands” of the whole issue, then separation of marriage and state will be the ultimate... Continue Reading
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