Reparations: A Critical Theological Review
Kwon and Thompson are right to show us the failures in our national history and in our churches; what’s more debatable is whether racism and White supremacy are embedded in every institution and encoded in every aspect of our society.
Suppose American history is as bad as Kwon and Thompson aver. Suppose our corporate guilt is everything they say it is. Suppose everything they want to see under the banner of reparations would be good for our country and good for our communities. The religious vision is still one that I find more in line... Continue Reading
“Woke” Public School Teachers Are Targeting Christian Students
The teacher... compared religious discussions to offensive ethnic and racial comments:
This is what “wokeness” has come to—shaming middle school students for expressing their joy in their personal relationship with Jesus Christ because it is considered “offensive.” This was a clear violation of this student’s First Amendment rights and an affront to the religious liberties rooted deeply in the history and culture of the United States.... Continue Reading
A Nation Primed To See Racism In Everything Will Think Only About Race
Americans are now trained to see racism everywhere, even where it doesn't exist.
Trees are racist. Hiking is racist. Your cereal box is racist. Your depictions of Santa Claus and Jesus are racist. Claiming otherwise to any of it is also racist. Minorities are trained to see themselves as hopelessly oppressed and facing endless aggressions at every turn. Every slightest impolite infraction can earn the morally indignant condemnation as racist, wrecking the perpetrator as... Continue Reading
In The World, But Not of It
The woke, in contrast to the toleration of Christians, make changes in underhand ways.
God’s kingdom, (mentioned by Paul) which transcends all other organisations, the members of which worship Christ her king, need ‘room’ in order to flourish ‘in the present evil age'(Gal.1.4), agencies in education, literature and society. The growth of such a kingdom, God’s kingdom, creates effects in society, as you would expect, but not of a... Continue Reading
Dad Who Wrote Scathing Letter to Brearley about Race Focus: ‘Someone had to’
He blasted the posh, all-girls Brearley School’s “cowardly and appalling lack of leadership [for] appeasing an anti-intellectual, illiberal mob.”
“If the administration was genuinely serious about ‘diversity,’ it would not insist on the indoctrination of its students, and their families, to a single mindset, most reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Instead, the school would foster an environment of intellectual openness and freedom of thought.” He criticized the school for gutting the traditional curriculum... Continue Reading
Losing Ourselves
The deepest and more fundamental shifts that have taken place in Western culture over the last several decades have not been in our definition of what’s right and what’s wrong. They’ve been in our definition of reality itself...
When who we are as human persons is completely disconnected from any design and from any creator, then the only thing there is left to us is whatever I express about myself. With this framework, when anything – whether it’s religious, moral, or social norms or even laws and public policies – gets in the... Continue Reading
On the Primacy of Embodiment, Against the Online Instructors
What view of the human person does online instruction tend to reinforce? Why does our language tell us that 'in-person' education is necessarily not online?
Our year-long experiment in social distancing has given us more acute and tragic reminders of this truth about our nature. Anyone who in the last year has been unable to attend a birth, baptism, birthday, graduation, engagement, wedding, death, or funeral in person can tell you that being there matters more than words can tell. Again, our... Continue Reading
Men and Women in the Church
“My overriding desire,” DeYoung says, “is to put into the hands of churches, leaders, and curious Christians a work that is intelligent and readable.”
One of Kevin DeYoung’s particular talents is explaining complicated subjects in a simple way, and that talent is on full display in this book. Those who read it will better understand the complementarian position and see how it is grounded in God’s Word. They will understand some of the contemporary challenges to that position and... Continue Reading
To Be Continued: The Unstoppable Mission of Jesus
As king, Jesus now reigns in the hearts of all who bow the knee to him.
The people in the book of Acts, including Paul, were clay pots. They were ordinary people. They were reliant upon the Spirit of God to continue the mission of God. Likewise, God has given us the necessary resources—the gospel and the Spirit of God. As you read the following pages, you will see how ordinary... Continue Reading
Bo Giertz – True Pastor and Insightful Writer
" if you think you are saved because you give Jesus your heart, you will not be saved. …"
“One does not choose a Redeemer for oneself, you understand, nor give one’s heart to Him. The heart is a rusty old can on a junk heap. A fine birthday gift, indeed! But a wonderful Lord passes by, and has mercy on the wretched tin can, sticks His walking cane through it and rescues it... Continue Reading
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