Mainline Decline “One of our finest hours was when our Presbyterian Publishing House, Westminster Press, published books on the death of God theology.” Thus spoke the 1996-97 moderator of the PCUSA, as he accepted the 1996 Alumnus of the Year award from Chicago Divinity School. This “finest hour” helped promote a sustained and growing rejection […]
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Confronting Neo Paganism Part 2
In the Culture and in the Church III. The Revolution Is Just Beginning: What ever happened to the New Age? I recently registered for an online forum, Beyond Awakening: The Future of Spiritual Practice. You could say Beyond New Age. Hailed as “the most important conversation for the planet today,” the program consists of interviews with […]
Confronting Neo Paganism Part 1
This was first posted 11 years ago. Revolutionary Times We are living in a most disorienting time, especially since someone said that orientation is knowing where the East is! When I came to the States in 1964, the threat from the East was not spiritual but material—atheistic Marxism and a fear of the disappearance of religion altogether, predicted by […]
The End of the Family?
The End of the Family?By Dr. Peter Jones As Christians observing the huge behavioral changes in Western culture, we need to evaluate what our public witness will mean in the days ahead, whether for us individually, for the church community or for our children. It will not be business as usual. Someone recently observed: “If […]
The New Trans Challenge
According to transhumanism, what is the chief problem with humanity? It is human finitude. Unlike the Bible, which anchors the fall of man in our moral rebellion against our glorious Creator, transhumanism sees human limitedness and physical frailty as the main problems to be overcome. Our determination of human normalcy (what is expected of the […]
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Barbra Streisand: “Don’t Rain on My Parade”
by Dr. Peter Jones | March 16, 2020Barbra Streisand is the top-selling female artist of all time, worth $400 million and second on the all-time popular music charts (ahead of the Beatles and The Rolling Stones), exceeded only by Elvis Presley. She has recently emerged as a secular Jewish opinion-maker, whose message to America is that we are in dire straits. Her fear reminds us […]
The Mind of Christ on the Throne of the Home
by Joshua Gielow | March 16, 2020Dr. Brian Mattson Offers a powerful statement of the normativity of the nuclear heterosexual family as representing God’s intention for the good of humanity and for the glory of his person. God’s image, reflected in the human family, is a clear organic statement both of human dignity and of God’s grace.Today’s non-traditional, non-binary families are built […]