Everyone involved in the supply chain, from production to consumption, is participating in the economic juggernaut that is the porn industry, whether they realize it or not. And many of them are unaware of the harm being done to themselves and others. This industry fuels the global sex trade, builds the demand for exploitation, severely distorts sexuality,... Continue Reading

When it was still young it already looked mature because this was God’s design. Indeed, this was the case with the first human being. “When he made Adam, Adam was not a fetus; Adam was a man; he had the appearance of a man. By our understanding that would’ve required time for Adam to get... Continue Reading

For evangelicals the cross is at the centre of their faith. Bonhoeffer did not believe in substitutionary atonement – Christ suffering as a substitute for our sins, dying in our place to earn eternal life for us. The cross of Christ certainly is important to him, but in a very different way – it is... Continue Reading

“The truth is: The priorities and concerns of American evangelicalism have a highly tenuous and ambiguous relationship to those we find embodied in the confessions and catechisms of the Reformation and exemplified in the attitudes and actions of the Reformers.”   October is the month of the year in which, as a Reformation specialist, I... Continue Reading

What can we propose to this new powerful, unholy, planetary “Roman” Empire which, at best, reduces everything it knows about Christianity to “personal testimonies” of individuals. Personal testimonies are important but few in our culture have heard the deeply satisfying good news of a cosmology of holiness and beauty. This grand vision lies behind Paul’s... Continue Reading

The longer I’ve wrestled with this problem in my own family, the more convinced I’ve become that the ultimate answer is not “no technology” or “more technology” but “more theology.” If we want a deep, lasting, and spiritual solution, we need to learn and teach deep, lasting, and spiritual truths. Sound digital theology is the... Continue Reading

Traditional Christians must be willing to do the same in the coming years, to show society’s need for religious freedom and liberty of conscience. The cultural left in America, to which the courts respond, may be unyielding in its requirements that people be involved with sin, but if believers refuse involvement at any cost, there... Continue Reading

In the modern age, it became possible not to believe. A secular alternative to Christian theism emerged as a real choice. As a matter of fact, choice now ruled the intellectual field. As Peter Berger famously observed decades ago, this is the “heretical imperative,” the imperative to choose one’s worldview.   In his important Massey Lectures... Continue Reading

Since time immemorial, with the exception of very rich people who could afford servants and child care, women worked. Women had to work. (Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the home was an economic center.) I’ve discussed some of this before. The postwar strong economic expansion, job security, and innovation in household appliances created what we... Continue Reading

Why? Why bless the Lord at all times, in good times and even in bad? Because he is causing all things – both good and bad – to work together for our good. Because he is in control and does nothing but good to us. To praise the Lord at all times is an expression... Continue Reading