The PCA is currently facing two “crises” with a view to deacons. The first deals with the question of whether a deacon possesses any authority in his office; the second is the question of whether the Book of Church Order makes room for unordained female and male deacons. It might be difficult for some to... Continue Reading

How does one create a hero at a time when heroes have fallen out of favor? Much of the literature of the twentieth century shows an ambivalence about this question. During the bloodiest century the world had ever known, a time of ever increasing disillusionment, the conventional hero became an increasingly rare figure in literature... Continue Reading

Christian sociologist Os Guinness has observed that there are as many people going out the back door of mega churches as coming in the front door. I spend a lot of my time wandering in and out, worshipping in Episcopal and Anglican churches around the world. I have come to some conclusions about church growth... Continue Reading

To ensure a glorious future, the “B team” must be denounced, demonized and demoted…The “B team” is the global capitalist Empire, controlled by patriarchal heterosexuality and religious “dualism”, led by U.S. militarism and multinational corporations. You know—the Age of Aquarius, chakras and crystals, Shirley MacLaine’s “going within,” and Marianne Williams, guru to the stars. Well,... Continue Reading

Reed said, “people have not only the right but the have the duty and the obligation to overthrow that government, by force if necessary,” if government violates those God-given rights. At the annual Values Voter Summit last weekend, Billie Tucker, co-founder of the Jacksonville, Florida–based First Coast Tea Party, recounted how “some people say, ‘don’t... Continue Reading

Many in the young, restless, reformed movement do not realize that there is an alternate stream of Reformed theology, one that stands more in the tradition of Barth, Berkouwer, and Torrance than Warfield, Berkhof, and Frame. I happen to think that second stream is truer to the source, but not all agree. Of course, the... Continue Reading

Timothy Keller, author of The Reason for God recently authored a paper for the theistic evolutionary organization Biologos entitled “Creation, Evolution, and Christian Laypeople”. In this paper, he wrestles with how to present science to Christian laypeople in such a way that evolution and the Bible seem compatible (read the entire paper here). Keller frames... Continue Reading

The girl was given to understand, from various quarters, that it was girls like her, girls who delayed marriage, that were the trouble with her generation, with Christianity, and with the country in general. Once there was a good Christian girl who dreamed of growing up, getting married, and having children. She read all the... Continue Reading

Elders and pastors who believe that their local church does not need to be concerned about the “progressive” issues being advanced in the “far away” denomination are, in a word, naïve My favorite World War II movie is “Where Eagles Dare,” starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. The scenery, suspense and drama make this a... Continue Reading

Waiting is not my preference. I don’t believe in lines! I try to avoid waiting in lines at the grocery store and I try to avoid traffic on the road. In fact I’d rather be moving in the wrong direction than stuck in traffic going in the right direction. Let me begin this post by... Continue Reading