Deconstructing Doubt in the Church
While it might seem like your world is being shaken, perhaps even like you’re experiencing a kind of death, we are convinced a more robust, settled faith can exist on the other side.
Christianity—to be more specific, Jesus—can help, whatever your questions. Whatever your struggle, it gets better with more—not less—Christianity. It might be tempting to leave the church in order to find the answers. But we want you to reconsider the church as the best place to deal with your doubts and deconstruction. Deconstructing, however jarring and... Continue Reading
Reparations: A Critical Theological Review
Kwon and Thompson are right to show us the failures in our national history and in our churches; what’s more debatable is whether racism and White supremacy are embedded in every institution and encoded in every aspect of our society.
Suppose American history is as bad as Kwon and Thompson aver. Suppose our corporate guilt is everything they say it is. Suppose everything they want to see under the banner of reparations would be good for our country and good for our communities. The religious vision is still one that I find more in line... Continue Reading
Losing Ourselves
The deepest and more fundamental shifts that have taken place in Western culture over the last several decades have not been in our definition of what’s right and what’s wrong. They’ve been in our definition of reality itself...
When who we are as human persons is completely disconnected from any design and from any creator, then the only thing there is left to us is whatever I express about myself. With this framework, when anything – whether it’s religious, moral, or social norms or even laws and public policies – gets in the... Continue Reading
Men and Women in the Church
“My overriding desire,” DeYoung says, “is to put into the hands of churches, leaders, and curious Christians a work that is intelligent and readable.”
One of Kevin DeYoung’s particular talents is explaining complicated subjects in a simple way, and that talent is on full display in this book. Those who read it will better understand the complementarian position and see how it is grounded in God’s Word. They will understand some of the contemporary challenges to that position and... Continue Reading
A Review: Rejoice and Tremble
One of the most reoccurring themes in Scripture is the command to fear the Lord.
The fear of God as a strong biblical theme thus stands as a superb theological guard dog. It stops us from thinking that we are made for either passionless performance or a detached knowledge of abstract truths. It backs us into the acknowledgment that we are made to know God in such a way that... Continue Reading
The Prayer of a Weary Black Woman – Vistas in Woke Theology
Some commendations and some criticisms of “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman” while also exploring the insights that it gives us into woke theology.
Finally, this prayer does nothing to help race relations. It casts nearly all white people as the enemies of God. It casts nearly all black people as friends of God. But the Bible tells us that those who have faith in Jesus Christ—no matter their ethnicity—are friends of God. We should not think that God... Continue Reading
Book Review: Reparations—A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair
The authors' theological paradigms of the Church's mission are fundamentally flawed and weaken the Church and its spirituality.
It may be the case that Church’s that have held slaves or participated in slavery should engage in the work of restitution and restoration. But to draw this out to engaging every church in social work and public policy is distracting and weakens the spiritual mission of the Church. Reparations: A Christian Call for... Continue Reading
The Enneagram Goes to Church and the Angels Are Not Rejoicing
The effort to Christianize an occult pagan tool demonstrates there is no truth, objective, biblical or otherwise, at the heart of the Enneagram.
So how does the statement, “All truth is God’s truth” apply to something like the Enneagram? It cannot do so because there are no grounds to believe there is any worthwhile truth in the Enneagram. What lies at the root of the Enneagram are teachings of Gnostic, occult, and New Age teachers and information from... Continue Reading
The Elect: The Threat to a Progressive America from Anti-Black Antiracists
The Elect harbor a religion that harms black people in countless ways.
Social history is complicated. It’s why people spend eons in training in it, and doing it well requires more than simply identifying how whites have been racists and leaving it there. The real social historian gets, for example, that a meme can be especially tenacious when it happens to be useful for other purposes. Teens... Continue Reading
Is Your Doctrine of the Trinity Novel?
Listen to the living voices of the dead. If we do, we might just rediscover something intimate, immensely old.
C.S. Lewis once lamented that “a great many of the ideas about God which trotted out as novelties today are simply the ones which real Theologians tried centuries ago and rejected.” Today, that trotting continues. It is now up to you to decide whether or not the church going forward will continue that trotting or... Continue Reading
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