Maybe Americans want public policy to reflect their moral judgments as much as ever, but they no longer regard smoking marijuana or casino gambling—or sodomy, gay marriage, or pornography consumption—as morally suspect. At the same time, maybe jurisdictions are implementing tough new laws in other areas—mandates to recycle, laws against dog-fighting, marital-rape statutes, trans-fat bans—because people... Continue Reading

There it is. We mess up. It is not just that we mess up, as it were, by accident or because things just tend to go that way. Rather, we have a propensity to mess up – to mess up ourselves, others, everything we touch.   “Sin is any want of conformity unto or transgression... Continue Reading

To add ‘cultural transformation’ to Christ’s command to his first disciples to go into all the world and preach the gospel, would (in Calvin’s view)  jeopardise Christian liberty, and no doubt we could add that it would be to privilege the educated middle-class Christians over their blue-collar fellow believers. A command, or a kind of culturally-correct pressure... Continue Reading

Yesterday I learned that Leithart is now teaching at a place called The Trinity House in Birmingham, AL. I Googled it and found this: http://trinityhouseinstitute.com/solomon-among-postmoderns/. The announcement says: “Trinity House fellow Rev. Jeff Meyers and Peter Leithart will lecture at the annual All Saints conference at Community Presbyterian church in Louisville, Kentucky, November 1-3. Click... Continue Reading

Modeling for my children how to be a minority has a bigger purpose than merely learning how to have dark skin in a white world. My lessons are about how to wear Christ’s skin. How to conduct yourself among a majority people who are instinctively prejudiced against you for who you are, and for who... Continue Reading

If these examples are instructive, then we may wonder about the wisdom of NAPARC congregations inviting to their pulpit a modern-day Arminius, a minister who leads a movement, which has many points of contact with the theology of Arminius—that is a form of “covenantal Arminianism“—that has been considered and rejected by the Reformed churches. Yes, our modern-day Arminius affirms... Continue Reading

Which is why my first reaction to the proliferation of even some of Reformed theology is profound gratitude. Do I think TULIP is the essence of Calvinism? No. Do I wish many who think of themselves as “Reformed” would go a lot farther back and dig a lot deeper down? Yes. But does it bother me that... Continue Reading

While pro-life is all too often associated only with those of us who oppose abortion it encompasses a much larger philosophy of making decisions in the favor of life. With life all things are possible, not necessarily likely or guaranteed, but possible. When physicians get into the business of taking onto themselves the authority to... Continue Reading

The instictive answer would seem to be, “Absolutely!” After all, when I think of my sin and what I deserve from the hand of the infinitely righteous and just God, how could He love me apart from a representative who is Himself perfectly holy and lovely? It might surprise you, then, to know that the... Continue Reading

Paul could have had every theological degree known to man, yet I am convinced that he would have been regularly undone and moved to tears listening to a 3-year-old sing, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” Let’s find ourselves at home with this truth. Lean and rest against these walls... Continue Reading