Regarding “gay marriage” the brilliant New York Times social commentator, Ross Douthat, is batting .500. He is right that present society will not be able to refuse it. He is wrong that it will help salvage our morally challenged world. It is surely true that the Sixties’ “liberation” of sex from marriage and gender (by […]
44: Gender: A Non–Issue?
This statement might have been said by the multitudes of well–meaning contemporary Christians who believe that egalitarianism (same roles for men and women in the church and the home) is an essential element of New Testament Christianity. It was actually said by Kristina Wertz, legal director of the Transgender Law Center in San Francisco, hailing […]
27: Our Granchildren – and Yours
This week my wife flew to Berlin to be with our oldest daughter, who is having her fifth child. I can’t help thinking of the unrecognizable world in which our grandchildren will live if the present radical agenda becomes the cultural global norm. It is said, “As California goes, so will go the nation.” Living […]
Androgyny: The Pagan Sexual Ideal
The material below was published in the September, 2000 Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. For footnote references, please refer to the printed version. …being a gay man or lesbian entails far more than sexual behavior alone…[it entails] a whole mode of being-in-the-world. Paiens unt tort e Chrestianes unt dreit-Chanson de Roland Introduction Like the […]
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Confronting Neo Paganism Part 1
by Dr. Peter Jones | August 20, 2019This 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 […]
Papal Paganism’s Kiss of Death
by Dr. Peter Jones | July 12, 2019Papal Paganism’s Kiss of Death Pope Francis is walking away from most forms of historic Roman Catholicism, taking countless followers with him. Obviously Protestants do not accept works righteousness, the divinization of Mary, papal divine inspiration and many other Roman Catholic doctrines. However, Protestants and Catholics believe that God created the world; that Jesus is […]