Rev. Dr. Peter Sanlon wrote a kind pastoral letter to members of the PCA as they wrestle with human sexuality issues. Sanlon's approach is to show the lessons learned in the Anglican Church in England, as he contends that they are 10 years ahead of the USA in these matters. Could Sanlon's wisdom also apply to the CRCNA? Perhaps it is time to take notice.
Our Biblical Interpretation class looked at 20 popular statements. Can you detect anything wrong with them?
Both Islam and Christianity have systems of ethics that essentially answer the question: "What ought or ought not to be done?"
This article is a brief review of Thaddeus J Williams' recent text Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice.
Check out this resource from Duane A. Miller about presenting the Gospel to Muslims and how one disciples new converts.
In two separate blogs, Dr. Stan Wallace of Global Scholars (USA) navigates through the turbulent waters of Social Justice (intentionally capitalized) and social justice.
In this video, Dr. Voddie Baucham, Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Zambia, carefully unpacks Ephesians 2:10-11 as he asserts that racial reconciliation is "something that we must believe" rather than achieve.
This post highlights Jason Helopoulos' two-part blog A Reformed and Confessional View of Missions.
In this article, I hope to sketch out the idea of a balance in Islam which compares the weight of good and bad deeds.
In Christianity, if we want to describe Jesus, we use the words prophet, priest, and king to describe who he is, what he did, and what he continues to do. In this article, I will use those three terms to describe the person of Muhammad from Islamic sources.
Your additional item is a challenging statement. You might or might not be aware that I have lived and worked for almost half of my adult life in contexts other than North America. Doing so has...
Hello Benjamin:
I am a CRC commissioned pastor who teaches at Mukhanyo Theological College in South Africa. The list of quotes, yes, does include 2 quotes from overtures. The quotes...
Thank you for engaging, Daniel.
These statements and more have been told directly to me, or have come up in class discussions. What we did in the class was break into small groups and...
Hello Stewart:
You raise very key questions. It is a topic of great interest, especially since both secular and Christian authors are using the term "the religion of Anti-Racism" more...
Good day Kristen and company.
I read through your article and the subsequent comments. It appears to me that three things are going on:
a. You want to facilitate voices that...
Thanks for posting this article Staci:
As an author who has frequently contributed to the Network, there is much to applaud about it as a vehicle for disseminating information....
Thanks for engaging, Roger.
To answer your challenge, perhaps I could picture the situation in a different way. Imagine that you had an ancestor named King Gelwicks. He was a model king...
Good day Gilbert:
Having lived in West Africa for 11 years and Egypt for 3 and now on a short-term teaching assignment in South Africa, your post caught my attention.
In...
Thanks Roger:
I am using "spiritual bondage" in a negative sense in the quote above. That is to say, Duries's book suggests a bondage of demonic origin. This has nothing to do with...
Greetings:
Here is the citation. I contacted Dr. Greenlee, but he no longer has the document that he cited.
Ken Wycherley, Evangelism and discipling (London: EUROM, Evangelical...
