“If I had to be married to have sex, I would probably be married, as would every guy I know.” “Once upon a time, marriage made sense.” So write Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison in the June 11, 2010 edition of Newsweek magazine. The two women who wrote the article are both young adults who... Continue Reading

As our readers are well aware, Professor Bruce Waltke’s departure from Reformed Theological Seminary back in April was big news on these pages http://bit.ly/9MWqny. He left RTS because he no longer fit into the confessional standards of the school. Now, however, he has become both the whipping boy and role model of fundamentalism in the... Continue Reading

Editor’s note: A minister, about to write an article criticizing a fellow minister for his lack of orthodoxy, wrote to John Newton of his intention. Newton replied as follows: Dear Sir, As you are likely to be engaged in controversy, and your love of truth is joined with a natural warmth of temper, my friendship... Continue Reading

Want your children to go further in their education—high school, college, maybe more? Want them to earn more as adults? Here’s one key predictor of educational attainment and earning power. Is it IQ? Is it economic status? No, it’s the number of books in the home. That’s the finding of a 20-year study conducted in... Continue Reading

It is essential to be concerned about both the head, sound doctrine, as well as the heart, the life of faith. Strong on doctrine and scholarship, but weak on life, evangelism and passion.” Too frequently this is the popular image of Calvinism. Contemporary Calvinists may sometimes be responsible for perpetuating this image. In their eagerness... Continue Reading

“It excludes the right to raise your children in your faith; to have religious literature; to meet with co-religionists; to raise funds; …to carry out charitable activities……” “Freedom of worship” has recently replaced the phrase “freedom of religion” in public pronouncements from the Obama administration. Experts are concerned that the new rhetoric may signal a... Continue Reading

The collapse of the marriage culture within the working class…is due to the fact that women are in control and have set expectations “too high for the men around them to meet.” Is our postmodern, postindustrial society simply better suited to women than to men? Hanna Rosin makes the case for this claim in the... Continue Reading

Have you ever wondered why the Bible seems to be guilty of double-talk when speaking of “the world”? John 3:16 tells us that God the Father loves the world so much that he sent God the Son to fix it. But we’re told in 1 John 2:15‑17 not to love the world, and James tells... Continue Reading

A funny thing happened on the way to getting my hair cut: I ran into a former Georgian (as in Russian), now full fledged American “with an attitude!” That is dangerous in anyone’s book, but when you put scissors and a straight razor in his hands it is outright suicidal to be in his chair!... Continue Reading

They are all ignoring the facts that (1) Christianity is somewhat irrelevant to the world (I Corinthians says that the faith is “foolishness” to the world); and (2) they are all grasping at the wrong straws to appease the wrong people . I don’t have a bone to pick with the framers of the the... Continue Reading