The San Antonio City Council approved changes this afternoon to the city’s nondiscrimination policy, making it illegal to show bias “in word or deed” against anyone in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community. Opponents say the ordinance criminalizes any disagreement with homosexuality. Despite the religious community’s widespread opposition to the policy, which already banned... Continue Reading

So here is the nightmare. If the U.S., France, and some miscellaneous allies strike at the regime, they could conceivably so weaken it that it would collapse. Out of the ruins would emerge a radically anti-Western regime, which would kill or expel several million Christians and Alawites. This would be a political, religious, and humanitarian... Continue Reading

Yes there is some diversity within classical Reformed theology on the Sabbath but it is diversity within unity. There is a Reformed view of the Sabbath. There is a fundamental unity that God has established a 1 in 7 pattern in creation. To that creational law was added typological and temporary Mosaic legislation but the... Continue Reading

Tadashi Agari, an elder commissioner in the presbytery, wrote in an email to The Layman that the sessions for each of the six churches cited no issues with the presbytery or Synod of the Pacific, and often expressed appreciation for the presbytery’s policies, ministries and fellowship. The frustration came from the GA and changes to the Book of... Continue Reading

Girls, it’s not too late! If you think you’ve made an on-line mistake (we all do – don’t fret – I’ve made some doozies, even today!), RUN to your accounts and take down the closed-door bedroom selfies that makes it too easy for friends to see you in only one dimension. Will you trust me?... Continue Reading

Now you’d think all this would mean something for life in the church where we hear the Word and receive the Sacrament. But, I am afraid it does not – at least not as it should. The church is too often a place where we “play pretend”, because we dare not do otherwise. We cover... Continue Reading

“My question to the political leadership of Germany is,” says HSLDA Director for International Affairs Mike Donnelly, “How long will you permit these kinds of brutal acts to be perpetrated against German families? Why is it so important to you to force people into your state schools? The echo of this act rings from a... Continue Reading

The major difference with the traditional Scouting movement, however, will be in the group’s Bible-based worldview: It promises to uphold marriage as the union between one man and one woman, and clearly define what is meant by “duty to God,” “morally straight,” “clean” and “reverent.” The group will be open to boys regardless of religion,... Continue Reading

Bob also had a love for philosophy.  At the time of his death he was working on a Ph.D. in philosophy.  He was a good friend, a fun travel companion to GA, a careful theologian, and one that many of us often turned to for advice.  I learned a lot from him and I will... Continue Reading

And so I come back to my sensitive son, with his preference for imaginative games over competitive ones. I wonder if he will soon find himself a misfit in the Christian community, pressured to prove himself—not by his neighborhood friends, who won’t care what he is—but by other Christians, who want him to stand up... Continue Reading