I came across this editorial this morning. The author argues against the idea of the U.S. as a distinctly Christian nation, a notion which I believe both history and good theology bears out. Yet, the author claims he does not wish to be “tolerated,” but to be freed of religion in public life altogether. He wants […]
Is San Francisco Really All That Bad?
This morning I discovered that the city which ranks first in the nation in searching for online pornography is… Elmhurst, Illinois. That’s right. NOT my adopted hometown, San Francisco. According to these stats on internet pornography, this leafy, upper-middle class suburb of Chicago (population 43,298, median household income $81,925) had the highest number of internet porn searches […]
Not so much “star” dust…
One thing about San Francisco I did not expect before moving here was the degree to which everyone seems to remember the 1960s. Of course, most people I’ve met here are not old enough to remember the 60s, but that doesn’t seem to matter. The collective memory of my adopted city does not seem to […]
Father, Son; Mother, Daughter
Despite what you might think, the title of this post does not refer to kinds of picnics or dances at a wedding. This is the way my friend Bill likes to describe the persons in the Godhead. I met Bill through his small piano-tuning business. Our church in San Francisco inherited an old baby grand […]
Frontline Dispatches
I am on a church plant in the city of San Francisco. That’s right. San Francisco. Before making my way up here with my family, we were living in Christian country. As we were preparing to move, I made a sort of hobby of telling people we were planting a church in SF. With few […]
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by Joshua Gielow | May 12, 2022Mark your calendar for September 26th through the 30th, TruthXChange’s 2022 Symposium in the month of September: “Stolen Identity: The Theft of the Binary in Contemporary Society.” “What are your pronouns?” “How do you identify?” These current cultural questions are a restatement of one of the oldest questions of the human race: “Who am I?” Today’s […]
Black Fathers and White Fathers
by Dr. Peter Jones | April 22, 2022Part of Critical Race Theory is the assumption that racism is inevitably related to white male heterosexuality and the oppressive patriarchy that occurs under the selfish rule of powerful father-figures. Thus, the contemporary version of a “man” in U.S. society is “hyper-masculine, straight, and white…the wealthy white male property owner.” So “…we must begin to […]
Still Time to Care About the Whole Gospel
by Dr. Peter Jones | March 2, 2022In his book Still Time to Care (2021), Greg Johnson, an intelligent Christian thinker, seeks to make a valid case for allowing someone who, like himself, is openly same-sex attracted, gay, and celibate to be an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. Johnson adopts a profoundly orthodox and well exegetically supported view of biblical sexuality. […]
Post-Christian Ideologies at Christian and Secular Colleges
by David Talcott | February 24, 2022For some time now, truthXchange has been warning the church about the inroads that post-Christian ideologies are making into Christian colleges. The pagan worldview that reasserted itself in America in the late 20th century has now incorporated new ideas about sexuality, race, and other hot-button topics. A recent series of articles in mainstream outlets shows just how bad things have […]