3 Reasons President Obama Is Wrong About Stay-At-Home Mothers
Obama: “Sometimes, someone, usually Mom, leaves the workplace to stay home with the kids, … “That’s not a choice we want Americans to make.”
Every time you look at us with disappointment for our decision to stay at home with our children, that’s what you’re doing. People also do it with women who choose to provide for their children in other ways. Neither is a good look. But it’s particularly disappointing to see some of those bad traits in... Continue Reading
Why Won’t the Gay Theologians Debate?
Why are "gay Christian" activists and theologians so unwilling to debate the issues publicly?
Prof. Robert Gagnon, the foremost authority on the Bible and homosexuality, would be delighted to debate Prof. Brownson or any qualified gay theologian, yet he too is studiously avoided, despite his sterling academic background and his gentle demeanor. Why? Dr. White ended his dialogue with Matthew by stating, “I stand ready to work with Matthew... Continue Reading
Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans?
Research questions themselves may become biased without conscious consideration
There’s a simple test of whether a question is objective or ideologically loaded. It’s what, in 1994, the political psychologist Phil Tetlock termed the turnabout test: imagine the opposite of your question. If it sounds loaded, your original phrase probably is, too. Consequently, if the premise of a study is to look at something like... Continue Reading
Evangelical Leader Russell Moore Denounces Ex-Gay Therapy
Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore denounced reparative therapy saying the controversial treatment that attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation has been “severely counterproductive.
“The utopian idea if you come to Christ and if you go through our program, you’re going to be immediately set free from attraction or anything you’re struggling with, I don’t think that’s a Christian idea,” Moore told journalists. “Faithfulness to Christ means obedience to Christ. It does not necessarily mean that someone’s attractions are... Continue Reading
Reformed Tradition Taking Root In China
China may be emerging as another global center of Reformed faith and practice
“For decades China’s house churches tended to despise denominations but that has been changing rapidly as they face the need for institutional structure and better church practices in order to support the work of the ministry–defending the faith, practicing discipline, training up the children, ordaining ministers, sending out missionaries, and so on. Interestingly, their quest... Continue Reading
Questioning Faith On The Front Lines Of The Ebola Outbreak
Asking medical missionaries of various religions to separate their practice from their faith asks them to deny the very reason for their service
“I was raised to revere missionaries and support them. Over the years, many of my friends in the medical profession have given their time and talents to missionary hospitals around the globe. It never occurred to me that someone might consider medical missionaries to be pressuring “their patients, at moments of maximum vulnerability and desperation,... Continue Reading
The Closing of Discussion in the Public Square: Bowing to the New Social Orthodoxy
Homosexualist advocates are driving out of the public square with abusive rhetoric and the teeth of "sexual orientation" laws anyone who calls into question their agenda
In most mainline seminaries today candidates for faculty positions who are known to have published in favor of the scriptural and orthodox position on male-female marriage will not be hired. It is even less likely that candidates for faculty positions in secular colleges and universities will be hired. After all, institutions of higher learning cannot... Continue Reading
What Led You To Become An Atheist? Some Surprising Answers
Surprising answers creating a completely unexpected composite sketch of American college-aged atheists
They felt their churches offered superficial answers to life’s difficult questions: Churches did not address questions like creation v evolution, sexuality, reliability of the Bible, purpose of life, etc. Messages were bland, shallow, irrelevant, and boring….Ages 14-17 were decisive: Most embraced unbelief in the high school years. What leads people away from religion and into atheism?... Continue Reading
Good News For The Naked Public University
Christian study centers are emerging from the epistemological rubble of our naked public universities
We noted together that universities specialize in small and medium-sized questions, and have largely removed the big questions from consideration, except in philosophy or perhaps classics. The logic of academic specialization means that we have our disciplinary logics, ground rules, and accepted theories that define what we count as proper. Academics have no higher allegiance... Continue Reading
Houston To Drop Pastor Subpoenas
The City of Houston will withdraw its controversial subpoenas of five pastors tied to a lawsuit over the city's equal rights ordinance
I didn’t do this to satisfy them,” Parker said of critics. “I did it because it was not serving Houston.” Parker’s administration already had withdrawn its request for some of the pastors’ sermons, which proved a particular flashpoint, and the clergy said Tuesday she seemed to be considering whether to remove the subpoenas altogether. ... Continue Reading
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