The temptation is for Christians go silent and give up the marriage fight: “It’s no use staying in this battle,” we think to ourselves. “We don’t have to change our personal position. We’ll keep speaking the truth and upholding the Bible in our churches, but getting worked up over gay marriage in the public square... Continue Reading

J.D. Greear, lead pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., a Southern Baptist congregation, urged the church’s members to support the amendment. “Government did not define or establish marriage. God did. Government merely recognized that which has been established by the Creator.” North Carolina voters have made the state the 30th in the U.S.... Continue Reading

[Court] said McGlone’s desire to share his beliefs is protected First Amendment activity and the open areas of Tennessee Tech’s campus are public forums. When deciding to allow people on campus, the policies must not grant overly broad licensing discretion to government officials…[and] the two-week notice period is unreasonable, far longer than other timeframes upheld... Continue Reading

There have always been men–like this fellow and like Chrysostom or Knox or Whitefield or Spurgeon or Lloyd-Jones or ten thousand others–who have been “famous among all the churches for [their] preaching of the gospel.” It is not a capitulation to culture to admit this fact. And it’s not bad to acknowledge these men and... Continue Reading

“It’s easy to believe in the separation of church and state when one has nothing but scorn for all organized religion. That was the position of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s hatred of the clergy and established churches knew no bounds. He thought that members of the ‘priestcraft’ were always in alliance with despots against liberty.” –Gordon... Continue Reading

What Kaine and his successor, McDonnell, have in common is they are Virginia’s first two Roman Catholic governors, and both are mindful of the church’s opposition to capital punishment. Kaine allowed executions to proceed, as has McDonnell, despite faith-based teachings to the contrary. “I think they’re both right. Justice is a fundamental tenet of our... Continue Reading

Thankfully in time the Reformed tradition came to see the mistake in insisting that civil magistrates are to enforce the true religion, and both the Westminster Confession of Faith (the Presbyterian confession) and the Belgic Confession of Faith (the Dutch Reformed confession) were modified to eliminate that requirement. Nevertheless, I can’t help but think that... Continue Reading

The following aphorism speaks to Christians living under tyranny. “When tyrants reign, let us first remember our faults, which are chastised by such sourges; and, therefore, humility will restrain our impatience. Besides, it is not in our power to remedy these evils, and all that remains for us is to implore the assistance of the... Continue Reading

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet, amended the ban on all-comers so that it applies to any private school that receives more than $24 million in state tax revenue. Only Vanderbilt takes in an amount that large The state Senate approved legislation Monday afternoon targeting Vanderbilt’s all-comers policy on a 19-12 vote. The... Continue Reading

Since the government mandates education for children and provides resources for fulfilling that mandate, no organizations seeking to fulfill the government’s education mandate should be denied access to such resources simply because they provide education from an explicitly religious perspective. Nor should parents whose religious convictions direct them to choose religion-based schools be compelled through... Continue Reading