“People celebrated Saturday as a day of change, but the magnitude of the vote only revealed that seismic change has already happened in Ireland. Yet, despite those seismic changes, there are some things which remain unchanged.”   So Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to change our Constitution by repealing the 8th Amendment. This leaves the way... Continue Reading

The wording of BC0 59-1 and 59-6 goes beyond that of chapter 23 of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and thus, if it were made constitutional, it would place new, harmful bounds on the consciences of Christians dealing with abuses of the government.   In light of the efforts in the Presbyterian Church in America... Continue Reading

…the real goal of the Revoice conference, its organizers, and other advocates of getting rid of the shame attached to homosexuality/same-sex-attraction/LGBTQ won’t be satisfied until the churches come to affirm that homosexuality/same-sex-attraction-LGBTQ is A-okay so long as it remains only in the mind and isn’t acted out—and that implies that all other sins, too, are... Continue Reading

Around the world, and through history, governments have misunderstood and abused marriage in many other ways, and we would do well to broaden our perspective as we consider the proper relationship between church and state on the subject of marriage.   Chapter 59 of the Presbyterian Church in America’s (PCA) Directory of Worship opens this... Continue Reading

Embracing a gay identity prevents us from knowing ourselves as we are known by God. Instead, we are kept captive by faulty categories of the human person, created in the mind of man. It is more than mere semantics. In departing from the clear teaching of the Church on our sexual identity, we do injury... Continue Reading

The word “minority” is out of place. It’s troubling because it makes disordered sexual desires (which can be repented of and forgiven, just like any disordered desire) essential to one’s personhood. More to the point, in our culture, “minority” does not simply mean “less than the majority.” Minorities are considered an aggrieved group in our... Continue Reading

Until we see the darkness of our world, until we see the darkness which holds the homosexual in bondage, until we look into his eyes and see the pain, shame, rejection, rebellion, and stronghold of the evil one, we will not seek the Lord as we ought. We will have no power to effect any... Continue Reading

No, it is not true that “God made me this way.” All sin, including homosexuality, is a consequence of the fall but God did not make anything fallen. Our sinful dispositions, attitudes, and acts are the consequences of our fall in Adam. We sin because we are sinners. On analogy with the other sins forbidden... Continue Reading

The role of the champion of Christian chastity today, I argue, is to dissociate the Church from the false absolutism of identity based upon erotic tendency, and to rediscover our own anthropological foundation for traditional moral maxims. If we do not wish to be swept away with modernity’s orientation essentialists, then we need to remind... Continue Reading

Why are we hosting this gathering? Because there are a lot of gay men and women becoming Christians—or who grew up in Christian homes—and found themselves attracted to the same sex. They aren’t always sure what that means for their sexuality or for their church life. They want to obey God, but they often feel... Continue Reading