The CSBI has enjoyed over four decades of usefulness due to the care the original framers took to articulate the doctrine of inerrancy within a broader doctrine of Scripture. In light of contemporary challenges to inerrancy, however, it is time to exercise that same care and re-formulate the CSBI to strengthen it for future generations.   Over... Continue Reading

Any who are concerned about the changes that may be coming to the Chicago Statement should also take some time to consider whether its statement on biblical authority was sufficient in the first place. We suggest that it was not and invite the reader to return to a more classic expression of Protestant bibliology.  ... Continue Reading

The problem here is that this basic structure of reality is at odds with ascendant transgender ideology, which says that being a man or a woman is entirely disconnected from biological realities but rather is rooted in what a person thinks themselves to be at any given moment. If a biological male thinks he’s a... Continue Reading

The first two Great Awakenings were a mix of religious fervor and doctrine—particularly the Second, with its rather dubious theology. But they had this in their favor: They did at least press people toward a Christian ethic that took social responsibility seriously. The Third Great Awakening is clearly pushing people toward social irresponsibility.   According... Continue Reading

We can impoverish ourselves and rend our garments in pursuit of environmental, racial, moral, or medical purity. But “the gifts and sacrifices being offered are not able to clear the conscience of the worshipper” (Hebrews 9). There is and has only ever been one God who can do that.   Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution,... Continue Reading

Suffering can be one of the loneliest experiences, making us feel estranged and isolated from our friends, from our community, and from God. Yet paradoxically, as we let the church minister to us in our pain, leaning into God and into our friends, letting them carry us when we are weak, we often will find... Continue Reading

The church needs to understand this grief. We must understand in order to care for parents and families who are walking this hard road as well as for the children who are wandering. We need to understand in order to love well and pray well.   Losing a child is a terrible thing. It strikes... Continue Reading

There is nothing to be gained and much to be lost by treating those with whom we differ as if they were tribal objects in a quasi-anthropological investigation. Are those who differ from us merely stupid, or perhaps venal, or even evil? Were they simply dropped on their heads as infants? Or do they have... Continue Reading

Jesus reaches out to sinners with love, but Jesus does not condone their sins. He offers sinners not a tolerance to live in their sins but deliverance from their sins. If we need an example to show us how to implement the Golden Rule, surely this example is found in Jesus as revealed to us... Continue Reading

In Synod’s long paragraph on Call to Repentance, we find that we must not deny responsibility for or excuse “unnatural desires” even if they began in infancy. (Johnson does not quote that part of the report.) Synod’s report then disagrees with Johnson head on when it speaks of cure when it says, “In sanctification we... Continue Reading