One of the Most Original Books on Homosexuality in Years
A review of Unchanging Witness: The Consistent Christian Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition by Don Fortson and Rollin Grams
And I can tell you, the result is absolutely devastating for the claim that Christianity and homosexuality go together. A person might be able to convince themselves that the Bible allows it (by reinterpreting even the plainest of passages), but it is a bit hard to explain away 2000 years of absolutely consistent church history.... Continue Reading
Children at the Lord’s Table?
Dr. Cornelius Venema’s Children at the Lord’s Table? Assessing the Case for Paedocommunion provides a Biblically-grounded and confession-honoring answer
At the time, all I found on the historic, Reformed practice of requiring profession of faith before admission to the Lord’s Table were a few passing references in the confessions and theological books, and a helpful though somewhat poorly recorded tape series by Kenneth Gentry. Thankfully, Dr. Cornelius Venema’s scholarly yet accessible work Children at the Lord’s... Continue Reading
Why Kids Today Are Out of Shape, Disrespectful – And In Charge
Kids have been indoctrinated in their own awesomeness
“It’s common now in this country to find parents who are chauffeuring their 8-year-old or 12-year-old around to various schools, among families that are choosing a school, and the parent functions as educational consultant. The parent makes a recommendation, but the child makes the final decision.” Dr. Leonard Sax has been a family physician... Continue Reading
Book Review: America’s Original Sin
Repeating the overused and untrue narrative that blacks are permanent victims of white racism doesn’t make it any more true simply because it’s accompanied with Christian veneer.
In the age of Black Lives Matter and the social expectation to support its agenda or be slandered as racist, Christian contributions to racial reconciliation should approach this issue carefully. Racial inequality deserves the attention and engagement of Evangelicals but not through a superficial and self-righteous agenda that does more damage than good. It’s simply... Continue Reading
A Post Mortem on A Year of Biblical Womanhood
I think Evans did her readers a disservice by not distinguishing clearly between what was and was not actually found in the original text of Scripture.
I also knew that much of what Rachel Held Evans was literally living out was not actually in the Bible. The Bible doesn’t command a woman to call her husband master and so forth. But though I knew that much of what she was literally living out was not actually in the Bible, I didn’t... Continue Reading
Does “Jesus Plus Nothing” Mean “Jesus Minus Something?”
Here are six reasons why this phrase is lacking and unhelpful.
Finally, the sad fact is that talk of ‘Jesus plus nothing’ usually ends in holding to a form of Christian faith that is ‘Jesus minus something.’ Most often it represents a faith with an inadequate grasp of truth or too little theology and thought, or a faith that is ‘all Jesus’ but no God the... Continue Reading
You Can Get with THIS, Or You Can Get with THAT
There’s a whole line of Bibles one can purchase now for “creative journaling.”
Now, I love to doodle, but I think it’s highly inappropriate to doodle all over God’s Word. And this is doodle-for-show. I get it when people like to add a visual element to learning, but this is not really a method that would help someone truly study God’s Word. So you paint an abstract scene... Continue Reading
Amusing 1-Star Reviews of Great Books
Sometimes I amuse myself by reading really bad reviews of really good books
“I do this in part for the amusement factor but in part to remind myself of the nature of Amazon reviews. I read a lot of books and do much of my research and purchasing at Amazon. I find myself prone to look at a book’s star-rating and draw conclusions from it. Reading the 1-star... Continue Reading
‘A War for the Soul of America’
The “next American movement for liberation” will have to reckon far more with class and capitalism
“In recent months, campuses across the country have exploded with such conflicts, with Yale and the University of Missouri prominent among them. Then as now, questions about race, gender, and sexual orientation were at the forefront.” In some ways it is a mixed blessing for a book to be timely—and not just in the... Continue Reading
Why We Should Read Books
“We now have the intellectual attention span of squirrels – and it shows.” Denton
It’s becoming harder for us to focus on reading a whole article, much less an entire book. But we don’t have to give in to that. We need to exercise our brains to keep the firing paths moving for endurance in our attention spans and capacity to think deeply. Just like a constant diet of... Continue Reading
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