This post originally ran April 11, 2016. I want to argue that the war on marriage has many fronts. And while evangelical Christians have done a decent job in resisting some of the more outlandish attacks (e.g. Obergefell), in other areas we have tended to go along with the secular flow completely. One area where acquiescence …
Unleashing Your Inner Fundamentalist
This post originally ran August 5, 2009. Suppose that John R. Rice, during his Sword of the Lord days, accidentally took a couple hits of acid, and prophesied wildly about what would happen down the road if women quit wearing their hair in a bun, and started wearing slacks like crazy. Suppose he got really …
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Like a Gelatinous Pudding
Introduction: In the New Testament, obedience is a good word. Also in the New Testament, works is not, unless it is modified with a word like good. We are called to good works (Titus 2:7), but ...
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Like a Float for the Tournament of Roses
Introduction: One of the men in that Founders trailer said something like this. “If we can take a clear passage that says ‘I do not permit a woman to teach” and turn it into something like ‘I ...
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What Would Solomon Have Done With an Orc-Baby?
Introduction: So yesterday was eventful. There were events in the PCA, in the SBC, and in the CREC. You like how I am starting out in such measured tones, calling these things “events”? The old Chinese curse goes, as I am sure you remember, may you live in interesting times. And, as it transpires, we …
The Effeminacy of Silence
Introduction: I suppose the title might take some explaining, but if the post can’t explain a title like that, then what are we all doing here? Let me say at the outset that this is not a post about overt effeminacy—effeminacy of the lisping mincing kind. If that kind of thing were a virus, then …
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Financial Friction in Marriage
Dear Jon and Diane, Thanks for your questions, and I hope I might be in some position to help. When it comes to help for married couples in dealing with their “issues,” there are generally three areas where most of the action or conflict occurs. Most marriage counseling is going to revolve around three general …
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Emoting Like Pelagians
Introduction: It may seem odd to put it this way, but the only thing that can save us from the sexual revolution now is total depravity. Of course this is shorthand, but it is shorthand with a point. Of course we know that it is Christ who saves us, and total depravity is not the …
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A Quick Explanation
Given how many institutions have been going the squish route on all matters homosexual, it is perhaps understandable that Pulpit & Pen took us to task over the fact that Andrew Klavan is speaking for our Called conference next week. Called is hosted by New St. Andrews, and is a Christian worldview conference that we …
Murder on the Orientation Express
Introduction: Comes now the Amazon Death Star with news that they will no longer carry books by a gent named Joseph Nicolosi, the founder of what has come to be called conversion therapy. Conversion therapy or reparative therapy for minors (therapy designed to reverse homosexuality) is now illegal . . . oh, in loads of …
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