Category: Church
What is a society?
On Facebook my friend Scott Pryor rightly notes that if Dr. Miller failed to define ‘justice’ in his essay at Providence, my post suffers from the lack of a definition of “society.” So here is a stab at answering that question.
When the News Isn’t News: On Deconversion Narratives
Let’s just say a few things without naming any particular people or referring to specific events. First, there is a well-defined social script for someone who grew up in fundamentalist Christianity to become progressive later in life. This shift toward...
Why do so many people feel the need to lie about Cardinal McCarrick?
Here is Timothy Egan, a columnist writing in the New York Times:
On Not Being Like Juan Gines de Sepulveda
If you haven’t read Catherine Addington’s post on the main page today, please do.
What do we mean by “community”?
There’s a piece over at TGC I want to flag for a couple reasons. That said, before I get into some reservations about it, I wanted to note that the author is a pastor in Fargo, ND and he’s reporting...
A Brief Note on Paige Patterson’s Defenders
If we practice latitudinarianism either individually or corporately in an age like our own, we have removed our credibility before the non-Christian, post-Christian relativistic, skeptical, lost world. If you think that those who have rejected the plastic culture and are...
Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 2018
Brief notes on this question: First, Rod is correct in his response to Walther in which he notes the extremely American characteristics of American Catholicism. Moreover, this is a trend that goes back some time—at least to JFK’s awful speech...
Losing a Majority Mindset
I’m not entirely happy with this approach from Russell Moore, but I think the quote sums up much of the good and bad in what I take to be his major project: The loss of a majority mind-set is hastened...