New Books Alert: The Many Minds of Evangelicalism
Review of Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
For Worthen, though, the problem is not that the evangelical straw man doesn’t have a brain; it has too many. The evangelicals of the American Century want to have it all: faith AND reason, status AND separateness, the Great Commission AND Great Low Prices. Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American... Continue Reading
Single Mothers With Family Values
Single mothers choosing to break mold of government dependence.
The left has recast marriage not as a lifelong contract, but as a civil right, a choice, one of many paths to empowerment. An old-fashioned covenant that binds two people in mutual submission sits uneasily in a secular ideology that holds personal autonomy as the highest good. WHEN Jennifer Maggio was in her early... Continue Reading
PCA Heartland Presbytery Votes to Prohibit Practice of Intinction Within Its Bounds
Heartland Presbytery voted to prohibit the practice of intinction in the churches within its bounds
At its stated meeting on November 2, 2013, Heartland Presbytery voted to prohibit the practice of intinction in the churches within its bounds. Heartland is a presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Intinction is the practice in a communion service of participants dipping the bread into the wine before it is eaten. There... Continue Reading
The High Cost of Negligence
When pastors, churches, and other caregivers fail to report sexual abuse, they may aid and abet crime along with subjecting abuse victims to lifelong trauma
Child-safety advocates say it’s not uncommon for church leaders to try to handle abuse allegations themselves. During a panel discussion at a recent conference on childhood sexual abuse at North Hills Community Church in Taylors, S.C., abuse experts said churches often worry about false allegations. But false accusations comprise a small percentage of reports on... Continue Reading
Birth Control Mandate Is Unlawful, Federal Court Rules
The court did not rule, as other courts have in similar cases, that for-profit companies are protected by the Free Exercise clause
The American Center for Law and Justice, which represents the Gilardis, view the decision as a partial victory, Senior Counsel Frank Manion explained to The Christian Post in a Friday interview, because the Court found that the birth control mandate violates an individual’s religious freedom, but would not say that it violates a business’s religious... Continue Reading
The Sufficiency of Christ and the Sufficiency of Scripture
Scripture is enough because the work of Christ is enough. They stand or fall together.
The Son’s redemption and the Son’s revelation must both be sufficient. And as such, there is nothing more to be done and nothing more to be known for our salvation and for our Christian walk than what we see and know about Christ and through Christ in his Spirit’s book. Frame is right: “Scripture is... Continue Reading
Lay Aside the Weight of Discontentment
The secret to contentment in “whatever situation” is seeing the Treasure that trumps them all
Sinful discontentment is a weight to lay aside. But you can also think of it as a gauge in your heart that tells you when your spiritual eyes have strayed from the real Prize. When it shows up, stop what you’re doing, look at what you’re looking at, and redirect your mind to the real... Continue Reading
Boring Grace?
A review of Tullian Tchividjian’s One Way Love- Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
There are doubtless those who live by the law and don’t quite get grace, but is that the world most of the readers of this book inhabit? Maybe it is, but maybe it has just become the accepted norm to repeat that there are lots of people out there drowning in legalism endorsed by... Continue Reading
What Will Happen To Afghan Women When The Taliban Returns?
Will a resurgent Taliban return women to wearing burqas, withdraw them from schools, and force them to live behind painted glass in their homes?
Mavis Leno (wife of The Tonight Show’s Jay Leno) chairs a committee of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) on Afghan women and girls. In a telephone interview, she told me she is “worried sick” about diplomatic negotiations with the Afghan government and fears the Taliban could again leave women at a disadvantage: “Women are last in... Continue Reading
Adultery: Divorce or Rebuild
Once the affair has come to light, both spouses have a choice to make
A second reason to make every effort to help the couple rebuild their marriage has to do with the future quality of the relationship. Even those not writing from a Christian worldview say that while the memory of the unfaithfulness never goes away, it often becomes a catalyst for the marriage to become more honest... Continue Reading