Why Facebook Makes Us Sad
Why do we feel this way? Why does Facebook make us sad? Rest assured that the underlying problem is not unique to our generation but one that people, including Christians, have wrestled with since the fall. To put it bluntly, our problem is envy. A number of recent articles have remarked how the social network... Continue Reading
An Open Letter to the President of Liberty University: Reconsider your decision to invite Mitt Romney to speak!
Much of the growth occurs through the relentless efforts of their 60,000 missionaries, who are responsible for converting about 250,000 individuals a year. In fact, Mormons like to brag, “We baptize a Baptist church every week.” Dear Rev. Falwell: I was deeply disturbed at the news that Liberty University has invited Gov. Mitt Romney as... Continue Reading
Together for the Gospel Panel urges ‘complementarians’ to practice what they preach
He described people who “think they are complementarian and what they mean by that is ‘Woman, get me my chips,’ which is not Ephesians 5. “Complementarianism bears a cross,” Moore said “Male headship is, ‘What is in the best interest of my bride and of my children?’” A movement in evangelical Christianity that promotes male... Continue Reading
Don’t Tweet that Sermon!
Twitter is two-way, so that when you open the program, you are barraged with other messages from other people. That is the whole point of it! We may attempt to keep ourselves from being distracted, but this is a fool’s errand; the medium is inherently distracting and inherently responsive. When a new technology explodes on... Continue Reading
From Big Tent to Pup Tent: A Canadian Pastor’s Response to Dr. Gleason
Dr. Gleason is against camping, and Democrats, and Obama, and immigrants. Ok I get that, but what exactly does that have to do with the PCA? I read pastor Gleason’s recent columns(Part 1, 2, & 3) with interest, and I must admit a certain sense of puzzlement. I know that since I’m way up... Continue Reading
The end of religion at Vanderbilt (By my devious design!)
You see, over the past two and a half years, I have been coordinating with some of my fellow atheists to get into every religious group on campus. I am not in any of them myself, as my incredible fame has made me too high profile and thus a risk to the operation. Nevertheless, I... Continue Reading
Vanderbilt University’s totalitarianism: your tax dollars at work…
TB: This post is submitted by a calm and reasonable man who is himself the product of a large public research institution’s school of law. As if breathing the breath that comes from their Heavenly Father’s hand weren’t enough, as if the fruit of the Holy Spirit and centuries of Christian spiritual capital deposited into... Continue Reading
Uncool? Deal with it
Tullian Tchividjian, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has a “You may be too fashionable if …” list for Christians. I had to sympathize with rock singer Bono when he discovered he was uncool. Uncool? The frontman for supergroup U2, one of the biggest bands in the world? The activist... Continue Reading
The Two Kingdoms and the Reformed Tradition
We desperately need clarity on this matter if we are to overcome the increasing contentiousness and suspicion relative to the two kingdoms doctrine in our churches. We do not help ourselves when we make sweeping condemnations of doctrines or ideas or persons or institutions based on their tendentious association with some controversial claim and without... Continue Reading
The Case for Adam and Eve: Our Conversation with Professor C. John Collins of Covenant Seminary
If someone should find himself persuaded that there were, in fact, more human beings than just Adam and Eve at the beginning of humankind, then, in order to maintain good sense and a biblical mind, he should envision these humans as a single tribe. Adam would then be the chieftain of this tribe (produced before... Continue Reading