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Homosexuality and the Bible — The Rejectionist Approach

Luke Timothy Johnson thinks that the Christian crisis over homosexuality is not really about sex at all. Instead, it "has less to do with sex than with perceived threats to the authority of Scripture and the teaching authority of the church." In real ...

August 29, 2007

Without Fathers, Without Rules, Without Consequences, Without Hope

Modern societies seem absolutely determined to undermine their own foundations. This is especially true of intellectual elites who see the traditional structures of society as repressive rather than essential. Thus, overthrowing these structures beco ...

August 27, 2007

Institutionalized Hypocrisy — A Failure of Courage

This week's question at On Faith [Newsweek andThe Washington Post] has to do with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's vote to encourage its bishops not to enforce the doctrines and standards of the church -- at least when it comes to the mat ...

August 23, 2007

“What Does God Care What We Call Him?”

A retiring Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands has been making headlines around the world in recent days with his suggestion that Dutch Christians should pray to Allah. Bishop Tiny Muskens of Breda, a former missionary to Indonesia, suggested ...

August 22, 2007

Heresy Precedes Homosexuality

The mere fact that the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson is the Episcopal Church's first openly homosexual bishop ensures that he will be a media celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. To a great extent, he has become a symbol to both conservatives and libera ...

August 20, 2007

Heresy in the Cathedral

The Rt. Rev. Peter Jensen, Australia's Archbishop of Sydney, is making headlines for denying a heretic access to the pulpits of the churches under his care. The heretic is the retired bishop of Newark, New Jersey, The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong -- a ...

August 16, 2007

Why the Baby Bust?

Azure is a serious journal of ideas that states its mission as providing "ideas for the Jewish nation." In the Summer 2007 edition [Jewish year 5767], assistant editor Noah Pollak deals with the reality of the European baby bust. Pollak deals first ...

August 15, 2007

Why Heresy Matters — A Remembrance

The concept of orthodoxy requires the concept of heresy. If we are warned by the Apostle Paul to "follow the pattern of sound words" [2 Timothy 1:13], there must be a pattern of unsound words that we are to avoid. The very concept of truth requires t ...

August 14, 2007

The Fate of the Family and the Future of the Church

Is the future of our congregations tied to the fate of the family? Professor W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia is sure that this is so, and his research and analysis is impossible to ignore. In his essay, "As the Family Goes," publishe ...

August 13, 2007

Is This How the West Really Lost God?

Does worldview determine behavior or does behavior determine worldview? In the end, the process must certainly work both ways. An individual's basic worldview surely determines moral choices and behaviors. But habits of life and moral context can als ...

August 10, 2007