Americans generally know that abortions happen, but the reality of abortion is kept out of sight and, for most, largely out of mind. To acknowledge that abortions do occur does not require any actual knowledge of the numbers of abortions performed and the scale of the catastrophe. News reports that emerged in recent days will... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: Following is a blog post written by a PCA Teaching Elder, in fact by one of the 29 signatories to the Jeffrey Meyers Letter of Concern that is currently in the news. His post is followed by one of his respondents on the blog site. The Presbyterian Church in America is a confessional... Continue Reading

I pray that we may be rekindled through this debate to be once more that creative, faithful, outward-looking body of God’s people who love Him and each other. Dear Editor: In his article advocating the adoption of the proposed funding plan, RE EJ Nusbaum correctly analyzes the immediate problem we confront in the PCA with... Continue Reading

Do they know that I love them enough to stand up for them? Protect them? Fight off the world for them? Because they are MY children! Not in a manner that is blind to their sin, but in a manner that communicates that if they come to me with a deep pain they know I... Continue Reading

The common thread in these cases is the confusion of expression with coercion. It would be nice if the new Congress found some way to coerce federal judges into living up to their oaths. The jurists should be upholding real constitutional rights instead of twisting the Constitution into a battering ram against any public edifice... Continue Reading

Politicians are always talking about taxes. Some of them want to “soak” the rich; others want to raise “sin” taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. But I can think of one “consumer item” we’ll never see a tax on: sex. But maybe we should. Sex-the wrong kind of sex, that is-is driving up the cost of... Continue Reading

In such a world we are no longer moral beings with the propensity for great acts of righteousness and great acts of evil. We are instead, at least when we are bad, the mere product of our circumstances, our society, our upbringing, our biochemistry, or our hurts… We are so awash in the language of... Continue Reading

We need to keep in mind that what we are dealing with is not merely the question of the office of deacon, but also the larger question of ecclesiology. Quite often that point is either neglected or forgotten in the current discussions surrounding deacons. The “deacon question” is merely one isolated comment in a much... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: Mr. Jordan has been blogging since 2004, focusing on issues of interest to North American Anglicans. This article was originally intended for that audience. I do not find in the Bible any support for the post-apostolic concept of a monarchial bishop-a bishop who governs or rules his see as a prince might govern... Continue Reading

It is a strategy that attaches real consequences to individuals with power, rather than to an esoteric and powerless collective. Campus speech codes are no longer public property inherited by unknowing public servants. The speech codes now belong to those who oversee their maintenance. And they ignore them at their own peril. Back in 2002,... Continue Reading