There are ideas so absurd they once belonged safely in satire. Imagine telling your grandfather—a man who hunted, farmed, and fed his family from the land—that one day a political movement would treat killing animals for food as moral barbarism. Explain that raising livestock, fishing in rivers, and harvesting game in season would be criminalized.  […]

Imagine yourself as a Jewish teacher in first-century Palestine. A foreign empire rules over you and your land. A rival group, centered on the famous rabbi Jesus of Nazareth, is spreading rapidly even though he was condemned for blasphemy by Jewish leaders and executed by the Romans. The greatest headscratcher eventually happens to be the […]

Modern Evangelical Pharisees In my previous article, “When Repentance Becomes Costly,” I described a great problem in the American Evangelical Church. There is a need for pastoral repentance, but it has been absent in large measure. While the Lord has raised up many good shepherds, there is indeed an entire class that has disqualified themselves, […]

The Presbyterian Church in America is the second-largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States. As with all conservative Presbyterian denominations, it is experiencing differences over political and social views, especially those centering on the term “Christian Nationalism” and what it may or may not represent. At the General Assembly last June, the PCA approved Overture […]