The Heresy of Racial Superiority — Confronting the Past, and Confronting the...
Among Christians, the word heresy must be used with care and precision. Not every doctrinal error is a heresy, though all doctrinal error is to be avoided. A heresy is the denial or corruption of a...
View ArticleEverything Has Changed and Nothing Has Changed — The Supreme Court Legalizes...
Everything has changed and nothing has changed. The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday is a central assault upon marriage as the conjugal union of a man and a woman and in a five to four decision the...
View Article“A Lot of People Want Intact Hearts These Days”— Planned Parenthood,...
Yesterday’s release of a video showing the senior medical director of Planned Parenthood casually discussing the sale of organs from aborted babies is a moral challenge thrown right in the face of all...
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When ‘Discernment’ Leads to Disaster
The historic First Baptist Church of Greenville, South Carolina, announced in May that it would declare itself be “open and welcoming” to all people and that it would allow same-sex marriage and ordain...
View ArticleAshley Madison and the Death of Monogamy
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.” One of the most striking aspects of the Seventh Commandment is its utter simplicity. Without equivocation or evasion, God’s law is clear and self-explanatory. The very...
View Article“In this World You Will Have Trouble”— Welcome to Rowan County
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is now the setting for a dramatic display of judicial arrogance, even as the larger story points to the sweeping moral change that is transforming the nation’s landscape....
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the Reading of Books
I cannot really remember when I did not love to read books. I do know that I was very eager to learn to read, and that I quickly found myself immersed in the world of books and literature. It may have...
View ArticleBad News, Indeed — Playboy Opened the Floodgates and Now the Culture is Drowning
A venerable parable from Confucian China told of an elderly man who had seen emperors and events come and go, and observed from his Confucian worldview that good news and bad news were often difficult...
View ArticleWE CANNOT BE SILENT — Released Nationwide Today
One of my most vivid memories of childhood is standing with my grandfather, looking out on the landscape after a hurricane had passed through our town. Growing up in Florida, I knew to respect the...
View ArticleWhy Can’t Christians Just Join the Revolution?
Why not just join the revolution? This question seems obvious to many people who look at conservative Christians and honestly wonder why we cannot just change our views on homosexuality, same-sex...
View ArticleThey Did Not Honor Him or Give Thanks — Why Thanksgiving is Inescapably...
Thanksgiving is a deeply theological act, rightly understood. As a matter of fact, thankfulness is a theology in microcosm — a key to understanding what we really believe about God, ourselves, and the...
View ArticleRelativity, Moral Relativism, and the Modern Age
This intellectual revolution began with four lectures in late 1915 presented to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. The lectures were given by Albert Einstein, and before the end of the year Einstein...
View ArticleFor the Fall and Rising of Many in Israel
If your house is like mine, the Christmas cards are now arriving at full blast. Some come with letters and notes, some with inscriptions and Christmas messages. The most explicitly Christian cards...
View ArticleDo Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
A statement made by a professor at a leading evangelical college has become a flashpoint in a controversy that really matters. In explaining why she intended to wear a traditional Muslim hijab over the...
View ArticleFor the Mouth of the Lord Hath Spoken It: The Real Meaning of Handel’s “Messiah”
Though his work is almost universally known within the English-speaking world, Charles Jennens is virtually unknown. He was a brilliant librettist — a writer of texts to be put to music by others. Born...
View ArticleThe Courageous Leadership of Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill is widely regarded as the greatest leader of the twentieth century. Born in the splendor of Blenheim Palace on November 30, 1874, Churchill’s life would span the most decisive...
View ArticleThe Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy: It’s Our Problem
While America’s evangelical Christians are rightly concerned about the secular worldview’s rejection of biblical Christianity, we ought to give some urgent attention to a problem much closer to...
View ArticleSecularization and the Sexual Revolution: Evangelical Theology and the...
This post is the first in a four part series on Secularization and the Sexual Revolution. In the face of the sexual revolution the Christian church in the West now faces a set of challenges that...
View ArticleA Giant has Fallen — The Death of Justice Antonin Scalia and the Future of...
“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.” So advised a man who ought to know, William Howard Taft. After serving as President of the United States, Taft went on to serve —...
View ArticleThe Secularization of the West and the Rise of a New Morality
(This post is the second in a four part series on Secularization and the Sexual Revolution.) The new sexual morality did not emerge from a vacuum. Massive intellectual changes at the worldview level...
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