‘Yes’ to Worship: Churches Allowed to Use NYC Public Schools
Pastors win a round as the New York City Council approves resolution on houses of worship renting from public schools
“We had a huge, huge victory today,” said Pastor Bill Devlin, who with Council Member Fernando Cabrera (D-Bronx) has headed up a group of pastors pushing for churches’ equal access to public buildings. “Here you have the most progressively leaning Democratic city council in the entire U.S. And they vote by a huge margin in... Continue Reading
Unisex Bathrooms, Homosexuality, and First Names: Blurring the Lines of Distinction
The importance of cultural ties that bind us together
Please don’t misunderstand me. From the pastor to the pews, we all need God’s grace and mercy. In that light, no one is superior or inferior to another. As the old saying goes, “We all stand equal at the foot of the cross,” but that does not mean that there aren’t distinctions and that we... Continue Reading
Illogical Ontology – How We Misunderstand Ourselves
Perhaps it’s time for a paradigm shift.
When I inquired about the reasons for this “Black flight,” the residents pointed to the rumor that underclass people were moving in … This observation shook me to my foundation; I never dreamed that “Black flight” was possible. It was then that I realized that I had imbibed the intoxicant of ontological Blackness – believing that we were immune... Continue Reading
Don Draper Meets Abraham Kuyper
The exposure of an empty illusion.
Kuyper saw two “lords” at work in the spirit of the age around him, contesting the lordship of Jesus Christ. The first lord, Bratt explains, was Mammon, which he defines as “a thorough absorption in getting and spending within the horizon of the material world.” … The second lord was more intriguing to me: Art.... Continue Reading
The IRS Targets Adoptive Families
What is the IRS Morality? To defend Planned Parenthood, while deluging adoptive families with audits. Here’s the under-reported story.
So Congress implemented a tax credit to facilitate adoption – a process that is so extraordinarily expensive that it is out of reach for many middle-class families — and the IRS responded by implementing an audit campaign that delayed much-needed tax refunds to the very families that needed them the most. Oh, and the return on its investment in this harassment?... Continue Reading
When Tornadoes Twist Our View of God
What do these events say about God?
Our view of God cannot be formed through the lens of a fallen world with eyesight distorted by cataracts of pride. We must understand Him as He wants us to understand Him. We want to embrace God for who He is and ourselves for who we are. That’s called operating in the fear of the... Continue Reading
Jonathan Edwards: Why Read Him?
25 volumes, and they’re not boring or meandering
Jonathan Edwards’ writings fill twenty-five imposing volumes in the Yale Works. The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University, a beacon of unfiltered light in American academe, has plans to disseminate many more online. Did you catch that, or did your eyes skip over it? 25 volumes! And they’re not boring or meandering. If you just... Continue Reading
Eureka! My Quest for an Authentic Liberal Christianity
In the first of a two-part series, I look at the tensions between the rational and ritualistic traditions. Next week: the way forward
How could the right sort of liberalism be distinguished from the wrong sort? Ad fontes! Go to the origins. I made a fresh attempt to understand the historical source of the problem. I found that the Reformation gradually gave rise to two forms of liberal Christianity. One of these was deeply involved in the first... Continue Reading
Reading Scripture as The Apostles Did or Some Other Way?
A Reply to a Question about National Israel and Old Testament Prophecy
So, it’s not a matter of spiritualizing the OT prophets, since the charge of spiritualizing assumes things that aren’t true—that those who follow the NT pattern aren’t reading Scripture the way it’s intended to be read. This approach is in contrast to, e.g., the classic/modified dispensational approach which (e.g., J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come)... Continue Reading
Huge Anti-Gay Marriage Protest March in Paris
"This is something we cannot accept because of the fate of the children"
Opposition to gay marriage has become conflated with all sorts of other anti-government grievances coming from the right and the atmosphere in the country is particularly volatile, the BBC’s Hugh Schofield says. France is now the ninth country in Europe, and 14th globally, to legalize gay marriage. Tens of thousands of people have rallied... Continue Reading