Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as sexual transgressions against children, while the political Left has defended them as an . . . Continue reading →
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Paul Re-Forms The Body In Corinth
Embodiment is central to salvation, so is suffering in the body. Without the incarnation, passion, and ongoing enfleshed intercession of Christ, there is no redemption. This was the heartbeat of the apostle Paul’s preaching in ancient Corinth, a city pulsing with ideas . . . Continue reading →
Queer Culture Destabilizes, Subverts, And Excludes
In a recent New York Times opinion column, Pamela Paul makes an impassioned argument for why we should continue to use the word “gay” rather than “queer.” Not all gay people identify as queer, she correctly claims, and the Q-word’s rise to dominance thereby . . . Continue reading →
Christopher Yuan on Holy Sexuality and the Gospel
In September of this year HRA board member Chris Gordon, host of Abounding Grace Radio, sat down to talk to Christopher Yuan about the crisis precipitated in the West by the latest phase of the sexual revolution. Here are those discussions harvested for . . . Continue reading →
Religious Liberty Watch: Senate Bill On Same-Sex Marriage Advances
The Senate on Wednesday narrowly advanced legislation to protect same-sex marriage, sending it on to near-certain passage. In a 62-37 vote, 12 Republicans voted with all Democrats to move forward on the bill, after negotiators reached a bipartisan deal to include protections . . . Continue reading →
“Oppressor” Narrative Plays A Role In Growing Number of Teen-Related Gender Identity Issues
Patricia (a pseudonym) is the mother of a teenage girl who in recent years has come to identify as transgender. She lives in California, considers herself progressive, votes Democrat, and leads a group for parents of children with rapid onset gender dysphoria . . . Continue reading →
Engaging Greg Johnson
The church desperately needs clear, careful, biblical, and confessional interactions with these issues. Still Time to Care, however, is not these things – for that reason, this AIC cannot recommend it as a general resource for our churches. Rather, we encourage our . . . Continue reading →
Religious Freedom Watch: 1994 RFRA Under Attack?
An op-ed Wednesday in The Washington Post laid out how the left is attempting to dismantle what Congress once unanimously recognized as “undergird[ing] the very origin and existence of the United States”: religious freedom. Specifically, Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, argues . . . Continue reading →
With Presbycast Discussing Side B, Concupiscence, And The Distinction Between Nature and Grace
The Presbycast is always weird—the intro music for this episode comes from Ralph Carmichael; a blast from the CCM past—wild, and fun and this episode is no exception. HB contributor Stephen Spinnenwebber and I joined HB contributor and Presbycast co-host, Brad “Chortles” Isbell, . . . Continue reading →
Reinventing Pronouns Aids The Deconstruction Of Language
There is far more to pronoun usage than someone’s personal preference in how he or she wishes to have others refer to him or her. The woke tyranny affects all pronoun usage because it de-constructs our entire language. A pronoun must have . . . Continue reading →
Homosexuality, Christianity, And Suffering For The Gospel
Gay people, Johnson argues, have “sacrificed everything the world values to follow Jesus.” Apparently, the world values sodomy — or, perhaps, by “everything,” he means merely the satisfaction of any and all sexual urges. It doesn’t matter, because either way it’s a . . . Continue reading →
The Holy Spirit’s Identity Politics
It is pretty common nowadays, especially on the political left, to hear people talking about “identifying” as or with different things. Some people “identify” with whatever ethnic, national, cultural, or gender identity they were actually born into (although doing that usually doesn’t . . . Continue reading →
Rosaria Butterfield On AGR About Lies Of The Anti-Christian Age
Side-B gay Christianity believes that the sin of homosexuality is not in the desire but in the practice, as though sin were not an ethical and moral problem but really just a physical one. In a Roman catholic soteriology, that all makes . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast For July 24, 2022: Every Tribe, Tongue, And Nation (9): Second Head Of Doctrine (1)
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on the the Canons of Dort where we are looking at the Second Head of Doctrine of the Canons of Dort on the atonement. Synod was responding to Remonstrant criticisms that the orthodox Reformed . . . Continue reading →
Truth, Transgender, And Twitter Suspension
The other day, a friend wrote to tell me he’d been suspended from Twitter. Two of his tweets had triggered the ban on “promoting violence against, threatening, or harassing other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, . . . Continue reading →
Something New To Discuss During Our Q&A Session: Rosaria Changes Her Mind About “Conversion Therapy”
The category “conversion therapy” (CT) was always dubious. Coined in 1991, the term was a grab-bag, a way of lumping together a variety of approaches to the treatment of same-sex attraction (SSA). As a result of the various bans on CT, when . . . Continue reading →
Transgender Mania Grips Pre-Teen Girls
A quarter of the girls in my daughter’s class identify as transgender. Seven out of 28. When I said that on Twitter recently, I was roundly attacked for being a TERF who makes up ridiculous stories to harm trans people. While I . . . Continue reading →
Psalmody And The Sexual Revolution: Or Yet Another Reason Why We Should Only Sing God’s Word
It was only a matter of time. There is a story on CNN about the the 2019 publication of a LGBTQ hymnal, Songs For The Holy Other: Hymns Affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community. This collection is published by the Hymn Society, which is . . . Continue reading →
Rosaria Butterfield In Conference Friday July 29, 2022: Five Lies Of Our Antichristian Age
Rosaria Butterfield will be in conference Friday evening, July 29, 2022 at the Escondido United Reformed Church (located at 1864 N. Broadway, Escondido CA, 92026) at 7:00 PM. Raised and educated in liberal Roman Catholic settings, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield earned her PhD from the . . . Continue reading →
God Of The Rainbow, Even In June
In keeping with common grace, this year’s month-long celebration of sexual sin brought with it rain on the righteous and the unrighteousness alike, harvests for the godly and the ungodly alike, new life, and even the protection of life in the overturning . . . Continue reading →