Carson v. Makin: A Trilogy of Cases Protecting Religious Liberty, Completed
Chief Justice John Roberts identified the court’s cardinal principle that “a state violates the free exercise clause when it excludes religious observers from otherwise available public benefits.”
These three cases, because they widen the spectrum of parental educational choice, are especially important. Regrettably, many public schools and their boards have allowed their schools to drift into instruction that parents increasingly find runs counter to their convictions and values. This decision recognizes that parents desire and ought to have real educational alternatives. ... Continue Reading
Is Power Abusive?
Is it appropriate to ground authority relations and theological claims in the created order? Is it possible to legitimately exercise spiritual authority?
Evangelicals require a new strategy for understanding whether a theological “meeting of the minds”—that is, fellowship in the truest and deepest sense—can be possible between those who disagree about political and cultural issues. Two Questions on Authority Over the last several years, American evangelicalism has become increasingly divided. And while that claim is certainly... Continue Reading
Christians Should Rejoice over Dobbs
Many Christians are feeling the need to “nuance” their relationship to the overturning of Roe.
The coming months will be fascinating, and I suspect rather depressing, to watch. When it comes to abortion, especially after Dobbs, Christians face a choice of social respectability or religious fidelity. And the Christian commentariat already seems divided on which way to go. The Dobbs decision has revealed fault lines in American Christianity. These... Continue Reading
Why Woke “Christians” Support Abortion
What woke “Christians” who support abortion need most isn’t pro-life arguments. What they need most is the gospel.
Woke “Christians” who support abortion have become friends with the world and enemies with Christ. They’ve become enemies with vulnerable pre-born babies, enemies with the pro-life movement, enemies with real Christians—and especially, enemies with Christ. If you’re surprised that the most outspoken Christians on social media for “justice” are not rejoicing over the most... Continue Reading
Reset This
Taking a stand against the machinations of our global elites.
At its heart, the Great Reset is a conceited and self-loathing central-European blitzkrieg against the cultural, intellectual, religious, artistic, physical, and, most of all, moral inheritance we have received from our Greco-Roman forebears. Part I: The Problem What is the Great Reset and why should we care? In the midst of a tumultuous medical-societal... Continue Reading
Tribalism’s Big Lie
Most of us learned long ago to value human cooperation; we recognize that harming others doesn’t foster either our own well-being or the well-being of others.
One of the most damaging illiberal beliefs is the belief in the supremacy of the tribe. From that meta-belief, other illiberal beliefs flow. Mistakenly believing others are less worthy, it becomes easy to fail to see the humanity in others. From that mistake, it is easy to adopt a zero-sum mindset and believe all that... Continue Reading
60 Questions for Pro-Choice Christians
It seems that we have little to no tolerance when it comes to embracing tough conversations.
You may have considered all of these questions before. You may not have ever considered any of these questions before, but they are certainly worth considering before condemning the position the church of Jesus Christ has held for a couple millennia. For many evangelicals, the leaked draft decision last month felt like the culmination... Continue Reading
Exploring Overture 15 from the PCA General Assembly
Considering Overture 15 in light of the Westminster Standards, the PCA’s own AIC Report of Human Sexuality, and Overture 29 itself.
This issue has caused disunity, confusion, and chaos in the PCA for far too long. If we desire that this particular sword should depart our house, then we will acknowledge that Overture 29 needs Overture 15 to be effective and pass both through our presbyteries. The two overtures go hand-in-hand. The one works through the... Continue Reading
A Plea to Missouri Presbytery From A Fellow Presbyter
A plea to work together to restore peace and unity in the PCA
I trust that you are men driven by Christian character who will not countenance watching a sound church of Jesus Christ – your church – be torn asunder, especially by a small minority. If this is true, then give no support, encouragement or succor to any man who would refuse now to submit wholeheartedly to... Continue Reading
A Response to the Notion of ‘Reformed Catholicity’
A response from someone who was brought to faith in Christ from deep within Roman Catholicism, who didn’t even know what a Protestant was at the time.
It would be much more accurate to say, as Calvin does in the Institutes, that arising from under the all-seeing eye of the office of Pope, there had been voices who slowly began to catch visions of the arising theology that would blossom into the Reformation. These voices were not arising because of Romanism, but... Continue Reading
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