How a Treehouse Reminded Me to Put Down my Phone
What will be the long-term effects on a generation raised by constantly distracted parents?
There are some things we should live to regret: our sin, our harsh anger, our poor choices and our arrogant words. But there are other things we should fight to protect from regret. And our kids’ childhoods, full of life, love and listening, are one of them. Recently, I was driving home from my son’s robotics class. As usual, we... Continue Reading
Kenya’s New Polygamy Law Bad For Families, Christian Leaders Say
Kenya’s new law legalizes polygamy, allowing men to marry multiple wives in a country where they previously were permitted to have one
Under the new law there are five types of marriages in Kenya: Christian, Islamic, Hindu, monogamous and polygamous. Kenya is predominantly Christian, with Muslims making up about 11 percent of its population, mostly along the Somali border, its coastal region, and in cities such as Mombasa. NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Christian clergy fear that a... Continue Reading
Does a Christian Wife Have Fewer Rights than a Slave Wife in Moses’ Day?
The moral law is abiding; Old Testament case laws and civil laws apply now only in general equity
The Exodus passages quoted above are examples of restraining laws that aimed to limit the most heinous types of sin which fallen humanity would get up to. Another way of putting this is that the laws we see in Exodus 21 and many other case laws in the Mosaic Code were aimed at protecting the most vulnerable: refugees... Continue Reading
Nigerian Cardinal: Schoolgirls’ Abduction Is Shameful
The kidnapping of 300 teenage schoolgirls by the Islamist group Boko Haram has shamed Nigeria
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau on Monday (May 5) released a video in which he threatened to sell the girls and abduct more children from other schools. The extremist group’s murderous rampages against “Western” education and the military’s failure to rescue the kidnapped girls and young women have generated widespread protests in major cities in... Continue Reading
Hispanic Catholics Differ With Evangelicals — And With The Church
There are distinct differences between Hispanic evangelicals and Hispanic Catholics
The Pew Research Center’s look at “The Shifting Religious Identity of Latinos in the United States” also examined their beliefs, behavior and views on social issues. It finds that, beyond the church doors in the lives of the faithful, there are distinct differences between Hispanic evangelicals and Hispanic Catholics. WASHINGTON (RNS) The Pew Research... Continue Reading
Update: PCA Minister Tom Cheely Called Home to Glory
Cheely was Pastor of Missions at Briarwood Presbyterian Church
Dr.Tom Cheely, 70, Pastor of Missions at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham Ala., was called home to glory on May 7, 2014. Cheely served on the staff of Briarwood since 1983. He was a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. Cheely was born in Hopewell, Va. He graduated from Wheaton College and Columbia Theological... Continue Reading
My Story in the White Ghetto
Excerpt from the new book ‘Aliens in the Promised Land.’ Why minority leadership is overlooked in White Christian churches and institutions.
This book is an attempt to humbly bring an issue that is important to minorities who are within and adjacent to evangelicalism to the attention of those committed to pressing the claims of Christ everywhere in life. This volume is a collection of stories and recommendations from Asian, black, and Hispanic leaders from multiple denominations,... Continue Reading
A Review: Leithart’s ‘The Baptized Body’
Leithart advocates for a radical root-and-branch reform of our baptismal theology
I would say that the most foundational error in the book is his rejection of the “dual aspects of the covenant,” a matter which I consider essential to good Reformed theology and well balanced Calvinism. Reformed theology at its best accepts all that Scripture teaches about both divine sovereignty and human responsibility, even though tying... Continue Reading
Gene Robinson, First Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop, Announces His Divorce
Robinson, whose 2003 election as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop rocked the Anglican Communion, has announced his divorce from his longtime partner and husband
“It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,” Robinson wrote. (RNS) Bishop Gene Robinson, whose 2003 election as the first openly... Continue Reading
Supreme Court Approves Sectarian Prayer At Public Meetings
The Supreme Court declared that the Constitution not only allows for prayer at government meetings, but sectarian prayer
“To hold that invocations must be non-sectarian would force the legislatures sponsoring prayers and the courts deciding these cases to act as supervisors and censors of religious speech,” Kennedy wrote for himself and the conservatives on the court. Lawmakers and judges would otherwise have to police prayer, he wrote, involving “government in religious matters to... Continue Reading