Book Review
As is the case with many aspiring readers, I have filled my bookshelves with titles with every intent to devour them—but they remain unopened. To my shame, the Ninety-Five Theses is one such work in my library; a seminary class first incited . . . Continue reading →
Article
On June 11, 1936, a small company of ministers, ruling elders, and laymen gathered in Philadelphia and constituted what was then called the Presbyterian Church of America and would later become the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. To their opponents, the meaning of the . . . Continue reading →
Article
Schism is a serious sin. Presbyterian history gives us no warrant to treat the visible church as a purely voluntary association from which Christians may withdraw whenever they are disappointed, inconvenienced, or persuaded that they could construct something better. This is why . . . Continue reading →
News & Announcements
These were the top five posts for the week of August 31–September 6, 2026. Continue reading →
News & Announcements
Reformed Heritage Study Center (RHSC) is an exciting new online learning platform providing foundational and formational instruction in the Bible, theology, and the liberal arts. Qualified instructors offer personalized college-level courses and other learning experiences from a reliably biblically faithful perspective. Students . . . Continue reading →
Podcast
Recently pastor Brian Borgman gave a lecture at a Baptist seminary criticizing the distinction between law and gospel. In that lecture he repeated a number of criticisms that continue to crop up despite the fact that they have been answered repeatedly. For . . . Continue reading →
Article
John Calvin is frequently recruited into the current debates about schism, usually by isolating one side of his ecclesiology. Calvin’s severe warnings against abandoning the visible church are quoted as though he regarded nearly every institutional separation as schismatic. Alternatively, his denunciations . . . Continue reading →
Book Review
Over one million violent crimes were committed in the United States in 2025. The staggering number of perpetrators and victims in the United States means it is likely you attend church with someone whose life has been changed by violence. You probably . . . Continue reading →
Article
The Protestant Reformation undeniably divided the visible church in Western Europe. Congregations ceased communion with Rome, rejected papal jurisdiction (the pope), reconstituted worship according to Scripture and the early church,1 and established new ecclesiastical governments. In that descriptive sense, the Reformation involved . . . Continue reading →
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Article
In order to interpret the text of the Scots Confession and the Westminster Confession we must decide on a hermeneutic, a way of interpreting confessional texts. Often in the interpretation of confessional documents the temptation is to try to interpret a specific passage without reference to the broader context, but that is no way to read a text. Continue reading →
News & Announcements
These were the top five posts for the week of August 24–30, 2026. Continue reading →
Article
Of the three controversies surveyed briefly in this chapter, perhaps none of them better illustrates the diminished influence of the Reformed confession, and the rise of the QIRC in the conservative Reformed churches, than the thirty-year struggle over the doctrine of justification. . . . Continue reading →
Book Review
It is my opinion that one of the more detrimental developments in modern evangelicalism has been the rise of the celebrity pastor. While the church has always been tempted to elevate gifted and influential leaders beyond their proper place, our digital age . . . Continue reading →
Article
Church division has troubled Christians from the earliest generations of the church. The New Testament repeatedly warns against factions, quarrels, false teachers, and those who disturb the unity of Christ’s body. Those warnings did not become less urgent after the death of . . . Continue reading →
Article
In a previous article, we considered the argument against schism in the Old Testament. Redeemed Zoomer’s (RZ) argument does not rest on the Old Testament alone. He also maintains that Jesus and the apostles remained within the temple and synagogue system until . . . Continue reading →
Article
“Brothers, there is reformation happening in the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC). And that is something that we ought to be thankful for.” This statement was not made at the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. It . . . Continue reading →
News & Announcements
These were the top five posts for the week of August 17–23, 2026. Continue reading →
Article
As the baby-boomer generation came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, it led a broad cultural and religious reaction to traditionalism in various spheres. This is the era that brought us Woodstock and post-Vatican II guitar masses. The evangelical version of . . . Continue reading →
Book Review
“David sure seems to complain a lot.” These were the words of thirteen-year-old yours truly after reading through the Psalms for the first time. Even in my unsophisticated (and apparently unsympathetic) reading, it was obvious that many of the Psalms contained lament. . . . Continue reading →
