Though he is beloved by many for his very personal and severely introspective autobiography––the Confessions ––this project was addressed to God alone. And though it...
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is threatened by a new Orthodoxy, a new brand of Fundamentalism, and a new breed of Fundamentalists who seek to impose new ordination standards.
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. It is one of the bestselling religious books ever published in...
Though he is beloved by many for his very personal and severely introspective autobiography––the Confessions ––this project was addressed to God alone. And though it...
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is threatened by a new Orthodoxy, a new brand of Fundamentalism, and a new breed of Fundamentalists who seek to impose new ordination standards.
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. It is one of the bestselling religious books ever published in...
Do we still believe in the notion of the “preaching office” or the “pastoral office”? Or have we joined the ranks of so much American “free church” congregationalism that replaces the notion of “office” with that of mere “function”?
When Martin
Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on true repentance at the Wittenberg
Castle church in 1517, John Calvin was an eight-year-old French schoolboy. He
was first...
Jesus Christ comes to us in a realized eschatology of invisibility. When he comes to us, he lights flames that remain invisible to us, both saints and sinners. What we should also remember is that he has rarely come to us as the Northern Lights.
Christ likens the Church to a sheepfold in which God assembles his people, and compares himself to the door, since he is the only entrance way into the Church.
Might it still be possible to recover the former understanding of the office of elder, which is so central to our history, identity, and being as Presbyterians?
In 1898, the ruling elders of the Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Missouri,became aware through local media that one of their members, Dr....