All government is premised on force. Every government everywhere, at all times, if it has any power, will dispatch armed individuals to apprehend any persons who violate its laws and, ultimately, detain them in places surrounded by armed individuals empowered by lethal force.

It isn’t a different gospel that is needed. It’s not a different Jesus. It’s just a real gospel and a real Jesus. See, when every day of our lives is doused in a deluge of Jesus/gospel/Bible talk from our earliest memories, it is so easy for it all to become rote or rubbish to us. Satan’s greatest weapon against church kids is familiarity, and the contempt it breeds. So we need our families, biological and Christological, to show us the gospel.

Editor's Note: Word spread during the day on Tuesday that Wes White was closing down his blog. Here is his final post.

But lest we be guilty of hypocrisy ourselves, Eric Liddell’s example is one that Christians also should think deeply on. The willingness to sacrifice is a dimension that has largely disappeared from Christian discipleship today. The Gospel is proclaimed more in terms of the personal fulfilment it brings, the emotional and material benefits that accrue, rather than a dying to self and a wholehearted and sacrificial commitment to Christ.

We have to make a distinction, though, between the "working theology" of Mormonism today and its previous declarations. In the past, they put much more emphasis on good works. The most important development in recent decades has been an increasingly strong emphasis on the substitutionary atonement of Christ on the cross.

Those who are attacking Regnerus cannot admit their true political motives, so their strategy has been to discredit him for conducting "bad science." That is devious. His article is not perfect—no article ever is. But it is no scientifically worse than what is routinely published in sociology journals. Without a doubt, had Regnerus published different findings with the same methodology, nobody would have batted a methodological eye.

Four fears tempt every pastor. They are: 1. My fear of me…2. My fear of others…3. My fear of circumstances…4. My fear of the future.

I don’t have some Pollyanna view of people that would exclude violence against women coming from people with the complimentarian perspective. But, I also want to trust that when the authors respond with indignation to allegations and labels made of them that they promote violence against women, they really have been misunderstood

"In foster care alone, there are approximately 116,000 children waiting to be matched with a loving family right now. That's almost as many as the number of fans who will show up to fill the seats of Indy Motor Speedway this weekend," noted Marc Andreas, Vice-President of Bethany Christian Services, the nation’s largest adoption agency.

Satan isn’t a creator but a plagiarist. His power is parasitic, latching on to good impulses and directing them toward his own purpose. God intends a man to feel the wildness of sexuality in the self-giving union with his wife. And a man is meant to, when necessary, fight for his family, his people, for the weak and vulnerable who are being oppressed.