A Brief Introductory Glossary on the Relationship of Christians and Jews

Introduction: At a recent meeting of Knox Presbytery (CREC), we adopted two short statements on ethnic issues. These statements reflect the position of our presbytery, and were entered accordingly into our minutes. The first passed unanimously, and the second with one dissenting vote—and that was only because he believed the second one was redundant, having …

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Don’t Waste Your Fifteen Minutes

Introduction: Andy Warhol once famously said that in the future everybody was going to get their fifteen minutes of fame. If you make the second and third rounds, as we here in Moscow have done a few times, a predictable thing then happens. What happens is that if the critics were puppies and kittens, all …

Not Different Truths, Just Different Tribes and Teams

In news that should startle and amaze precisely no one, it appears that a controversy has broken out on Twitter. It happened on this wise. In response to the #BuffaloMassacre and #ReplacementTheory, Jackie Hill Perry tweeted this: “Say what ya want about Farrakhan (because there’s a whole lot to say) but this right here is …

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Does Grove City Have Worrisome Dark Spots on Her Lymph Nodes?

Introduction: To address my question right at the outset, the answer would appear to be yes. But as one who has been the subject of various online hit pieces myself, I think we need to proceed charitably and cautiously, and hear everybody out. At the same time, we should not blithely assume that somebody must …

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