“The Republican Party, the Republican Congress, and a future Republican President should regard and treat the decision just as the Republican Party, the Republican Congress, and the Republican President—Abraham Lincoln—regarded and treated the Dred Scott decision. They should, in other words, treat it as an anti-constitutional and illegitimate ruling.”   Dred Scott v. Sandford was... Continue Reading

“It may begin with the text, but the text functions as a mere peg on which to hang the preacher’s “concerns.” Its hermeneutic is inadequate. It fails to look at the intention of God in the passage. What emerges is often full of passion but devoid of precision, earnest but effervescent, relevant but unrelated.”   Alec... Continue Reading

“Many children raised by gay parents are now young or middle-aged adults. Some say their upbringing was positive, but a growing number are beginning to speak out against what they feel is a dysfunctional parenting model.”   Heather Barwick always found it easy to love her mom. But loving two moms? That was a bit... Continue Reading

“Evolutionists tell us that natural selection has produced all sorts of false concepts in the human mind. Many evolutionary materialists maintain that free will is an illusion, consciousness is an illusion, even our sense of self is an illusion — and that all these false ideas were selected for their survival value. So how can... Continue Reading

When we come to a full understanding of how serious our situation is as fallen human beings, our perspective on these doctrines changes dramatically. If we view fallen man as merely disabled or sick, we will never understand the full riches of God’s grace. When we see ourselves as God sees us, however, the truth... Continue Reading

What began as a good desire to see women uphold their God-given roles turned into an unhealthy desire among some to play border patrol, ensuring women stay within the narrow confines of acceptability. While boundaries can be helpful, it also can be easy to draw harsh lines where they ought not be. This is exactly what the Pharisees did when they... Continue Reading

God provides “helpers,” “men able to judge,” to aid Moses in the task to which he was called. Similarly, to provide an “appropriate helper” for Adam’s present ineffectiveness, God goes to the trouble of creating not another human friend but a whole new human female, a complement to Adam, enabling him to do the specific... Continue Reading

I understand that Christianity Today is a reflection of evangelicalism and that in the new media age there are more writers and websites than there are editors but even so it is hard to fathom how CT can publish something so confused, so contrary to basic creedal Christianity. CT serves Christians from a variety of backgrounds,... Continue Reading

The Protestantism they founded has since had a rich history of confessions. The very existence of these witnesses to the fact that classical Protestants understand that Christianity is not reinvented every Sunday when the minister opens his Bible and begins to preach. That being the case, it is critical that in educating the rising generation... Continue Reading

Calvin’s argument from tradition against tradition (understood as a source of unique Christian doctrine) constitutes a case of rather clever argument. He takes Rome to task on its own turf (tradition) and shows how un-traditional Rome’s teaching is. But in the process Calvin also demonstrates his own profound appreciation for tradition properly understood; indeed, Calvin... Continue Reading