Emergent leader Brian McClaren says "everything must change," not only websites and titles. Our political candidates seem to agree. I too am witness to enormous changes over my adult life.    I was raised in the heyday of European rationalistic secular humanism, and came as a student to America in 1964 to discover a... Continue Reading

  We have been notified some of the families whose children attend the elementary school at Valley Presbyterian Church (PCA) in North Hills (located in the San Fernando Valley area of Los AngelesCounty) have been affected by the wildfires.   Ferocious desert winds pushed one of three major wildfires burning across Southern California to nearly double... Continue Reading

  How often have we heard or given the counsel, "Just do the right thing." So many of life’s problems could be avoided if we and others would only do what we know is right. Of course, the problem is as old as Adam and Eve. Had they just done the right thing, there is... Continue Reading

At its meeting on October 3, 2008, Pacific Northwest Presbytery overwhelmingly determined that Rev. Peter Leithart’s theology is within the bounds of Reformed confessional orthodoxy. Pacific Northwest Presbytery debated the merits of a Majority Report  [Editors note: the original URL (link) referenced in this article is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.] over... Continue Reading

  WASHINGTON, Christian Newswire — The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh voted on Saturday, October 4, 2008, to end its affiliation with the national denomination. The vote carried with support from 119 of the 191 lay delegates and 121 of the 160 clergy delegates. The diocese has aligned itself with another province in the Anglican Communion,... Continue Reading

  A casualty of the left’s hatred for President George W. Bush has been a destructive inability to separate fact from fiction in the ongoing history of the war in Iraq. The latest case, which, sadly, has dug its way into the head of the Democratic presidential nominee, is the allegation that American troops, when... Continue Reading

  When I was a young minister, a man who never attended church (though formally a member) died unexpectedly. Sometime later I was visiting with one of his sons and the son’s wife. During our conversation the young man said to me, “My Daddy believed that the Second Coming was near and would occur, if... Continue Reading

  Economic and political destabilization ranked high on al-Qaeda’s list of strategic objectives in the 9/11 attacks on the WorldTradeCenter and Washington, DC. In addition to killing nearly 3,000 innocent people, the attacks immediately inflicted over $80 billion dollars in damage, sent the airline industry into a tailspin, and forced the United States to undertake... Continue Reading

I see a war going on right now between two different views of creativity in theology. Quite a bit is at stake in this battle. In fact, nothing less than the confessions are at stake.   The first view is that creativity should not be limited by the confession. Creativity spills over the boundaries of... Continue Reading

In a presidential campaign issues arise and then fade from view. The emergence of new media preoccupations may make it seem as though yesterday’s controversy has been resolved. This is rarely true.   Such is the case with the issue of Barack Obama’s position on legal protections for infants while an Illinois state senator. In... Continue Reading