“He is an exquisitely trained scholar, an eloquent proclaimer of the Gospel, a thoughtful analyst of culture, and a graceful and prolific author,” said John Buchanan, editor of the Christian Century . “His election as the next president of Princeton Seminary is very good news.”

This overture was filed as early as possible to give the GA Administrative Committee and the Cooperative Ministries Committee opportunity to review and comment, if they wished. After receiving feedback, our Presbytery is willing to consider revising and resubmitting prior to the 2013 overtures deadline.

At the end of the day, people need to see that God’s truth as well as his grace and love are more than theoretical beliefs. God is true and his Son Jesus Christ is mighty to save. Churches that show Jesus Christ is real will always attract people of all ages.

The home which God has given to me and my family is one for which I am deeply grateful. However, as with cars, computers and bodies, home-owning is one of the great demonstrators of entropy. In my case, though, it also happens to demonstrate something a little more.

By any criteria, it has become one of the most disastrous and devastating ecclesiastical battles since the formation of the Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMIA) and the later birth of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). It may well be the greatest single spiritual blot on the emerging landscape of North American Anglicanism.

Multiple sources are confirming that an incident in which about 25 to 30 Christian college students massacred at a university in northeastern Nigeria late Monday night (Oct.1), has caused Christians to pray for a "change of heart" among the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram to put a stop to the continued violence.

‘The study itself was neither intended to undermine nor to affirm any legal rights about same-sex marriage.’ – Mark Regnerus   If you want to know how University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus’s summer has gone, look no further than The Weekly Standard. On the cover of the conservative magazine’s July 30 issue are two... Continue Reading

I'm thinking on how the church worships. My contention is: a mature Christian ought to be able to worship anywhere, in any style, as long as the content of worship is within Biblical bounds

I have been persuaded today by concerned parties to enter the lists on the issue of how Luther has been co-opted for the cause of a kind of neo-antinomianism/Sonship theology by some figures in the YRR movement who are using his idioms of law/gospel dialectic and theology of the cross for their own theological ends.

It is impossible to summarize all the findings and contentions related to this survey; the purpose of this admittedly brisk report is simply to remind ourselves that, while class-talk does not tell us everything, it tells us much, and we neglect it at our peril if we want to deal intelligently with politics, cultural life... Continue Reading