Beginning this week, on Mondays we will be posting primarily (but not exclusively) reprints from blogs. We have a number of well known bloggers that we use regularly (Piper, Sproul, Mohler, etc.) but we are trying to feature new, younger writers as well. My current scheduled has changed to the point that I will be... Continue Reading

“He [a federal agent] had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there.”—Anthony Wright, victim of a Dept. of Education SWAT team raid looking for a college financial aid fraud suspect. The militarization of American police—no doubt a blowback effect of the military empire—has become an unfortunate part of... Continue Reading

What’s new is not even the celebration of homosexual sin. Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia. What’s new is normalization and institutionalization. This is the new calamity. Jesus died so that heterosexual and homosexual sinners might be saved. Jesus created sexuality, and has a clear will for... Continue Reading

Each new generation must be trained to be responsible citizens … to be virtuous and conscientious,” writes Howard in The St. Croix Review. “Once the free society is well-established, the daily life of the family and the society is such that becoming virtuous is not a monstrous chore for the young people.” I encourage you... Continue Reading

There are some people who would say that Christians have abandoned patriotism altogether. This is not true, however. Christians should not turn a cold heart away from their nation. In fact, celebrations like those of Independence Day provide a good start for developing a Christian patriotism On July 4, our nation celebrates its independence with... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: The response we have long expected from Al Mohler to all the controversy in the past 2 weeks on his statements at the Southern Baptist Convention in June came yesterday – on the pages of the Wall Street Journal. The Christian church has faced no shortage of challenges in its 2,000-year history. But... Continue Reading

The Wesleyan tradition takes a different approach, challenging the sola scriptura misapplications and pointing to what Christians do in practice, namely, follow Jesus while negotiating the authorities of Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience. In the Protestant Reformation sola scriptura was meant to make the case that the Bible is the ultimate and final authority on... Continue Reading

“We urge pastors to exercise their First Amendment rights and speak out on candidates and what they say in light of the Scriptures from the pulpit,” he explained. “And we will defend them if the IRS comes after them.” With the 2012 election campaign heating up, many pastors across America may have a lot to... Continue Reading

Professor Stewart then elaborated: What does [our use of new media] display? What it can display is that we are ungracious. That we pile on. I like to think of what happened to Rob Bell in football terms. When the whistle is blown there’s not to be any more tackling. Dr. Kenneth Stewart, professor of... Continue Reading

{T}here may never have been a point in history when the church and the culture are as susceptible to such a message. Yes, the church must be included for, let us not forget, Bell is writing from within the church, and his is an increasingly popular position. Like many publications, the editors at Time long... Continue Reading