Ultimately, this is a real problem for American Christianity. One should be able to trust Christian groups to provide accurate information and nuanced analysis. However, on issues relating to sexual orientation, I cannot trust them. Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center posted a revision of their hate groups list, including the Family Research Council... Continue Reading

Headship and submission are God’s ordained order to achieve oneness in marriage and unity in the church. Whenever a woman inverts this order, she becomes a life-taker. Instead of nurturing a sense of place and family in her home and church, she sucks the life out of that relationship/situation. “Even to old age and gray... Continue Reading

Reverend Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, confesses to being an unlikely ‘folk hero in India’ on Twitter: Who knew (this would happen), he writes with rhetorical flourish, when he argued that yoga was inseparable from Hinduism? Reverend Mohler was reacting to the recent ‘Take Back Yoga’ launched by the Hindu American... Continue Reading

And thank you, that as we return to mom’s grave together again today, it will not be a day of grieving as those who have no hope, but as those with a living hope and an unspeakable joy. I treasure knowing dad and mom are with you. “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O... Continue Reading

We should embrace the moments in our ministries where we must tackle the issues of sin that plague our people. It is part of the burden in our joyful call to shepherd God’s people and it is inevitable to face I recently came home late one night having spent a few hours counseling a couple... Continue Reading

With the advent of hymnody in Reformed churches…the criteria for meaningful worship began to turn toward the subjective experience of worship and away from the objective content of the Word, sacraments, and prayer. At the time of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, the worship of the Reformed churches was easily distinguished from that... Continue Reading

It is worth reading. I wonder how rarely we see this kind of opportunity, for a Christian to answer civil questions in the public arena about how he embraced Christ and what he believes? My mother says that I played in the floor of our living room while the Watergate hearings played out on our... Continue Reading

There is very little accountability among Christians in the United States, a new survey found. Only 5 percent of Christian adults indicated that their church does anything to hold them accountable… There is very little accountability among Christians in the United States, a new survey found. Only 5 percent of Christian adults indicated that their... Continue Reading

For example, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church has stayed orthodox thus far by God’s grace, not because of the superior godliness of its officers, still less because of its worship aesthetics, but because it has generally played by the rules and, more importantly, punished rather than rewarded those who break or subvert them. In this final... Continue Reading

“One statistic I saw when writing my book that floored me was that a child living together with unmarried parents in Sweden has a lower chance that his family will disrupt than does a child living with married parents in the U.S.” “When an institution so central to human experience suddenly changes shape in the... Continue Reading