President Obama should have a Nixon-to-China moment. If he tells Hollywood it has made America sicker, Hollywood will be forced to listen. It won’t be so easy for them to turn away.  If the president had strong, clear, uncompromising words—if he made an address aimed only at them, a clear and unsparing one that told... Continue Reading

“The D.C. Circuit has now made it clear that government promises and press conferences are not enough to protect religious freedom,” said Kyle Duncan, General Counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, in a statement   The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow to the Obama administration by ruling in favor of... Continue Reading

There has so much hurt and division caused, and so much obfuscation, smoke and bewilderment, that the sooner we have an objective, independent assessment of the conduct of all the parties involved, the better for the Church itself. This matter has gone truly global, and the whole Reformed Church family, worldwide, is talking about it.... Continue Reading

The fact remains that even in the works that Christians do that look just like the best works of the most morally admirable nonbelievers, the context for the former distinguishes them from the latter.   Last week at Old Life Darryl Hart graciously ventured his agreement with my basic statement of the two kingdoms doctrine... Continue Reading

“Unexpected Journey” stays impressively close to Tolkien’s storyline, but introduces some minor twists and turns to fit the medium and keep everyone on their toes. It’s a good blend of fidelity and freshness.  For the ultra-purists, if you just want straight Tolkien, then just read the book. The movie, by necessity, is not, and cannot... Continue Reading

It’s impossible for a person to completely abandon her original culture in order to enter a new one. (Nor is it theologically consistent with the work of Christ, who didn’t abandon his deity in order to become man.) As much as parents would like to identify with our children, we can’t change everything about who... Continue Reading

The Book of Order makes use in some references to the true Church and in other cases to the true church. The problem is that people don’t “hear” the lower case or capital letter. When a presbytery recognizes one part of a congregation as the true church it denigrates the people of faith whom it... Continue Reading

If parents, who are primarily responsible for training up their children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, choose not to admonish for fear of driving their faithless children farther away from home, their fear might ultimately reveal their own faithlessness as well   As a pastor, I am often faced with the difficulty... Continue Reading

“So for the glory of God and of England, pray for us Anglicans, as we do for our brothers and sisters working hard for our Lord Jesus in Baptist, Presbyterian, and other churches across the land. The gospel which unites us is stronger than our historic differences; so let’s not jeopardise one by focusing solely... Continue Reading

Now younger evangelicals are reacting against that and are attempting to develop a robustly Christian social ethic that holds all of creation accountable to the claims of Christ. It’s an undeniably positive and most welcome development. However, it is important to understand that evangelical commitments to both the pro-life cause and the preservation of traditional... Continue Reading