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What Would Luther Say? — A Church Apologizes for Church Discipline

The great moral revolution on the issue of homosexuality collides with the total surrender of a liberal denomination, and the result is the church's apology for having once stood on biblical grounds. That was the picture just a few days ago, when the ...

September 23, 2010

Real Enough? — Relics, Gopher Wood, and the Sufficiency of Scripture

For centuries, an inordinate and unhealthy attention has been directed to certain items claimed to be relics of Christ, Christian leaders, or illustrious Christians. The veneration of relics has been a major feature of Roman Catholic popular piety si ...

May 13, 2010

This Man Was No Moderate: The Legacy of Cecil Sherman

Some men leave an indelible mark on their times. Cecil Sherman was one of those men. Sherman died April 17 at age 82, just two days after suffering a massive heart attack in Richmond, Virginia. He lived long enough to be almost unknown among a genera ...

April 23, 2010

“The Year of Our Lord” — Diploma Trouble in Texas

A group of students at Trinity University in San Antonio is petitioning the administration to remove the words "in the year of our Lord" from the school's diplomas. Senior Sidra Qureshi said she started the petition in order to assure the school's co ...

April 21, 2010

“The Essential Edwards Collection” – An Interview with Owen Strachan

Widely-caricatured as nothing more than a puritanical 18th century thinker, Jonathan Edwards is only known by many for his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.  And yet, Edwards' life and works have lasted well beyond his own day, and he is ...

April 5, 2010

Is the Reformation Over?

The Rev. Eric Bergman thinks he has seen the future -- and it isn't Protestant. Known as Father Bergman now, Rev. Bergman became a Catholic priest after serving for years as an Episcopalian minister. His conversion to Roman Catholicism came, he relat ...

February 26, 2010

Vanishing Christianity — A Lesson from the Presbyterians

A recent study reveals that over one-third of the members of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) no longer believe that Jesus Christ is the exclusive way to salvation.  The PCUSA is another example of the slide into libera ...

February 11, 2010

How Will They Hear Without a Preacher?

Preaching has fallen on hard times. So suggests a report out of Durham University's College of Preachers. The British university's CODEC research center, which aims to explore "the interfaces between the Bible, the digital environment and contemporar ...

January 20, 2010

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