There are only two coherent positions (1) abolish separate men’s and women’s competitions and teams and let women (try) to compete with men in all sports; or (2) separate the sexes in athletics by, well, *sex*–a biological category–not by “gender” or “gender identity.”   In many sports, at all levels, we have separate men’s and... Continue Reading

The invocation of “structural racism” in political argument is both a bluff and a bludgeon. It is a bluff in the sense that it offers an “explanation” that is not an explanation at all and, in effect, dares the listener to come back. So, for example, if someone says, “There are too many blacks in... Continue Reading

We must be prepared also to offer the far better vision of identity, love, sex, and friendship found in the Christian account of reality. To not offer the better way of the Gospel would be heartless and foolish. Not only do we have a better story to tell, but the timing is right. This late... Continue Reading

From what I heard from many of the dissenting voters at GA was NOT a progressivist agenda, but a reasoned assertion that those who came before us did a pretty fine job of upholding these things in how they set up BCO 24-1, and that it does not need to be re-written.   I respectfully... Continue Reading

Here is a last word. A worldview without forgiveness, such as the worldview of CRT, offers no hope. There is no vision of a world in which this sin is defeated or redeemed, much less one in which the guilty are forgiven and restored. But the great message the gospel brings to the world and... Continue Reading

The alternative to BTTY is to seek meaning outside of ourselves in Jesus Christ. But how does faith in and submission to God—our infinite, external authority—satisfy rather than stifle us as human beings?   “Be true to yourself.” -EVERYONE This cultural gospel is so common it doesn’t strike us as odd. Put simply, BTTY asserts that... Continue Reading

Throughout history, most men and women—and even children—have recognized the wisdom of not sending our mothers, daughters, and sisters to the battlefield. The pattern in the Bible is that when combat is necessary it is men, not women, who bear the responsibility to participate in warfare.   The Story Congress appears poised to force young... Continue Reading

How is it that the transcendent, majestic, sovereign God could stoop Himself so low to our earthly affairs? How is it that the Son, who is God Himself (what a mysterious union this is, that Jesus is both the Son of God and God the Son, truly God and truly man!), condescends to our lowly... Continue Reading

There is a God who spoke this ancient stone into existence, when the first dawn broke over this landscape, when the ochre red rejoiced at its own birth. No explorers were there to sketch it, no photographer to capture its light. When God commanded that stone to stand as a sentinel, or that the twisting... Continue Reading

Perhaps the most astounding aspect of this book to me is that in a book about knowing the times in which one lives, and the 1940s-70s were very different times than my own, I found myself constantly making a note in the margins of my book that a statement or a comment he had just... Continue Reading