I am not an alarmist, but this is really serious: Gordon College may lose its accreditation over its opposition to homosexuality. Carl Trueman was so right six years ago. I'll put up his money quote on the blog again: What is becoming increasingly clear is that the...
Homosexuality
Review: Is God Anti-Gay?: And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible and Same-Sex Attraction
Is God Anti-Gay?: And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible and Same-Sex Attraction by Sam Allberry My rating: 4 of 5 stars I fear that we have already descended into the sloganeering phase of the argument over homosexual acts, just as we did long ago with...
The GOP and Social Conservatives
This is exactly what I said would happen. This is what I said almost a year ago: Republican Christian conservatives, I suspect that your party as a whole will only care about you as long as you give it votes. And this is what has happened, according to this morning's...
I Was Clearly Censored
I was censored. And as a blogger who has occasionally deleted comments (I generally contact the commenter to explain), I understand why. I did not read the commenting policy, and perhaps I would have adjusted my comment if I had. But over at Rachel Held Evans' blog,...
A Good Intro to the Neo-Calvinism vs. Two Kingdoms Debate
From an excellent, brief article on Neo-Calvinism vs. Two Kingdoms theology by David Koyzis: From my readings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Rawls and many other professed liberals, I have come to conclude that liberalism must be understood in terms of its...
Sloganeering and Homosexual Marriage
Sloganeering is not generally a persuasive form of argument: "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!" Has any American across the cultural divide from conservative Christianity ever changed his mind after reading that on a billboard or poster? Somehow I doubt...
Why Won’t Non-Christians Listen to Our Evidence?
This quote has been bouncing around in my head a lot since I read it a few weeks ago. It's John Frame, presuppositionalist apologist, responding to Gary Habermas, evidentialist apologist: The attitude of many [non-Christian] people today is that, whatever Habermas and...
Shame on South Carolina Republicans
I was only a teenager, but I remember the outcry among conservatives when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. Demands for impeachment were not limited to irate housewives on the Concerned Women for America blog (if there had been such a thing at the time). The...
Doug Wilson vs. Andrew Sullivan: Must-See Debate for All Christians
How can you argue about homosexual marriage in the American public square but yet argue from Scripture—while still making appropriately couched appeals to scientific studies? Listen to Doug Wilson debating gay conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan (whose blog I used to...
Review: The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Carl Trueman My rating: 3 of 5 stars I never miss a blog post from Carl Trueman. I’ve also enjoyed several of his books (Republocrat, Histories and Fallacies, The Creedal Imperative). So when Moody released a tiny Trueman...
Racism and Homophobia
Alarmists have been warning about coming American persecution of Christians—or exaggerating existing persecution—for a long time. It's a staple of those (supposedly type-written) fundraising letters sent out by parachurch groups. I've always been impatient and...
A Podcast Worth Listening To
I haven't been able to get into podcasts much; I just don't have much opportunity to listen to stuff. But to my tech life I recently added a bluetooth headset and a (finally) working smartphone (T-Mobile no-contract $30/mo. plan and a used Craigslist phone), and...