When Grace Meets Gender Confusion
The mental picture of this precious woman sobbing uncontrollably in a hospital bed after receiving the treatment she was convinced she wanted is one that will stay with me for a long time.
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The mental picture of this precious woman sobbing uncontrollably in a hospital bed after receiving the treatment she was convinced she wanted is one that will stay with me for a long time.
I was on my way to a baseball game when I heard the news that Charlie Kirk had been shot and killed while debating with students at Utah Valley University. I was aware of Charlie mostly as a political commentator who was popular with many young conservatives, who had openly identified as a Christian. I knew him mostly as the “prove me wrong” guy who went viral for setting up a booth on college campuses and offering to debate all comers. As I looked further into the story of his murder I was horrified to discover that he was 31...
Central Baptist Seminary (CBS) in Toronto, where I began my academic career as a church historian, experienced a deep financial crisis between 1989 and 1991. A three-man management team was put in place to lead the school instead of a president. One of the three men serving on this management team was Roy Lawson, in every way a larger-than-life figure in the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. And to be honest, he frightened me! But not my academic colleague, Stanley K. Fowler. In fact, once when Roy was complaining about hyper-Calvinists within our Fellowship (Calvinism was a controversial...
I grew up around John MacArthur. My brother and brother-in-law attended schools associated with him. We read his books, listened to his sermons, and used his Study Bible. Eventually, I even served on staff as a pastoral intern at Grace Community Church. With the death of Pastor MacArthur, I find myself reflecting on his life and influence—especially his influence on my own life. Reading John MacArthur As a teenager, I remember being unable to sleep one hot night. I moved to a cooler room, but still couldn’t rest. Then I had a curious thought: doesn’t the Bible have something about...
Recently, N.T. Wright argued that in some circumstances, Christians may terminate a pregnancy. While he did not argue for unrestricted abortion, he believed that in certain situations, terminating a pregnancy could be “the best thing to do.” Wright explains: “There are many, many cases where it is about the mother’s health versus the health of the child or whatever. And particularly that, as you cited, in cases of rape or in cases of incest, there may be a very, very strong argument for saying this ought never to have happened. And with sorrow, because we do not want to do...
