Gay vs. Queer
Queer theory means that you could be saying anything you want about yourself and are therefore communicating nothing stable or meaningful at all.
The winners and losers may change, but the game is always the same: to dethrone whatever today’s dominant categories might be, whether of heterosexuality, whiteness, or the gender binary. It is categorical stability, not the categories themselves, that is the real enemy. In a recent New York Times opinion column, Pamela Paul makes an... Continue Reading
Conservative Presbyterians Lay Out Why Mainline Cousins Are Losing Members: “Supernatural Battle”
The liberal Presbyterian Church USA has approximately 700,000 fewer members than in 2012.
The Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA)…made headlines in October when its Office of General Assembly announced that it would be adding a “nonbinary/genderqueer” option to its official church statistics in a push to be “inclusive,” according to a press release. The mainline denomination is theologically liberal and ordains women as well as practicing members of the... Continue Reading
Harvard on the Way Down
Excellence today at Harvard has taken a back seat to "wokeness."
Harvard today is at a crossroads. What it does next will impact the rest of American higher education, the nation, and the world in many ways. President Bacow has announced that he is stepping down in June. A presidential search committee is looking for a successor. Much is at stake. Harvard University has consistently ranked #1... Continue Reading
Indescribable Descriptives
A songwriter wishes to draw Christians to encounter the beauty of God through poetic descriptions.
Talented songwriters can do better. It is not as if we don’t have an inspired songbook to show us how it’s done. Let’s mine the Word of God and the world of God for analogies that will fire and inspire the Christian imagination to rightly know and encounter our infinite God. Don’t use adjectives... Continue Reading
Yahweh Miśrâh: Christ, the Lord of Politics
To claim that Scripture does not “provide express precepts and/or general principles that adequately govern every contingency” (Psalm 119:105; 2 Tim. 3:16-17) of politics is diminishing the sovereignty of God.
To help us depend on Him, God gave us self-governance, or self-control (Proverbs 25:28). He also gave us three external forms of government: family government, church government, and civil government. Each operates in its own sphere, though each sphere overlaps with the others. In the case of “caregiving,” the family government, not civil government, is... Continue Reading
Covid Added to the Childhood Vaccine Schedule: No Science, No Rationality, No Morality
Mandating these injections with very real harms and liffle-if-any benefit for children is indefensible.
The addition of Covid vaccines to the childhood immunization schedule legalizes mandates imposed by left-wing school districts at the local level, while shielding companies like Pfizer from liability, ensuring that no amount of harm caused by the vaccines will cut into their profits. In a ghastly new crime against America’s children, particularly those in... Continue Reading
Our Church Calendars
There is something wise about catechising our people to think Christianly about their lives by shaping what we do across the year (and not necessarily just on Sunday) to fit the shape of the gospel.
I think there’s wisdom in the church calendar, I don’t think we need to slavishly follow it—in fact enforcing it is probably against Paul’s instructions (Galatians 4). There is something wise about catechising our people to think Christianly about their lives by shaping what we do across the year (and not necessarily just on Sunday) to... Continue Reading
Where Is There Side B in the PCA?
Competing claims: The PCA has always been Side B vs. Side B isn’t happening in the PCA.
Throughout this time many in the PCA have publicly promoted Revoice while at the same time claiming that Side B does not exist within the denomination. They have said that rather than change our Constitution to address a non-existent issue that we should make use of the AIC Report on Human Sexuality because it gives... Continue Reading
He Gets Us? But Who Is He?
A trendy new "Jesus marketing" campaign seeks to rebrand a familiar figure; HeGetsUs is a movement to reintroduce people to the Jesus of the Bible and his confounding love and forgiveness.
The HeGetsUs campaign aims not to get people to “go to church,” but rather invite people to “consider the story of a man who created a radical love movement that continues to impact the world thousands of years later”….While the goals of HeGetsUs may be to make Jesus palatable to sophisticated urbanite worldings frustrated with... Continue Reading
Letter to Editor: From a Memorial PCA Member
I appeal to you to remember that whether Memorial stays or leaves the PCA, we are still one body with one Lord.
Those who criticize Memorial often do so from beyond our walls. I write as one who worships weekly in her pews, who has walked with Greg Johnson through the last five years of controversy, who has seen the toll it has taken upon my leaders and the resources of our church– resources which should have... Continue Reading
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