Carl And Todd Are Not Nice

by R. Scott Clark on October 23, 2013 | 4 Comments

So far the best thing about the Mortification of Spin podcast has been the occasional appearances—an odd word for a aural medium—of Aimee Byrd. One of these days she might just roller-skate right over to Philadelphia and then whammo! Certainly they are proving . . . Continue reading →

Todd Is Recovering The Reformed Confession

by R. Scott Clark on January 3, 2014 | 5 Comments

From the end of 2008 to 2013 I was the lead teaching pastor of a large non-denominational church in the northeast. During my time there I was told by various elders to lead the church in a more “broadly evangelical” direction. By . . . Continue reading →

We Are Not Merely Discussing Economic Subordination

by R. Scott Clark on September 8, 2016 | 9 Comments

So Burk argues that Christ’s not grasping for equality with God belongs not only to the economic but to the ontological Trinity. That is an extraordinary claim! He is asserting far more than a simple acknowledgement that the Father and Son are . . . Continue reading →

When The “Tone Police” Appear

by R. Scott Clark on December 6, 2016 | 4 Comments

One of the unfortunate features of the current Trinity debate is the moaning over “tone.” Such a complaint fails in at least two ways. First it fails in not affording proper weight to the content of the debate. In generations past men . . . Continue reading →

Pruitt: A Plea To The PCA To Avoid The Both The Meat And The Bones Of Critical Theory

by R. Scott Clark on February 5, 2021

If you care to read the architects of Critical Theory—Benjamin, Horkheimer, Fromm, Adorno, Marcuse, etc.— you will find that their project was animated in large part by a desire to undermine Christianity and its moral and philosophical norms. They believed these norms . . . Continue reading →

Pruitt: PCA GA Overtures 23 And 37 Address Serious Errors

by R. Scott Clark on July 6, 2021

The incursion of Revoice theology into the PCA has caused great division and confusion in our churches. We have been told to accept as an “orientation” what God’s Word calls “contrary to nature” and “dishonorable passions” (Romans 1:26-27). Some of our own . . . Continue reading →

Latitudinarianism In The PCA Is A Big Gamble

by Heidelblog on March 15, 2022 | 8 Comments

Many of us were raised in broad evangelicalism. We left that for what we thought was an intentionally confessional denomination. We love confessionalism because it both guards our fidelity to Scripture and offers a firm foundation for unity. By definition, confessions of . . . Continue reading →

The Church Should Speak Up In The Moral Revolution

by Heidelblog on December 19, 2022 | 10 Comments

The breathtaking success of the new moral revolution has made both clarity and, yes, redundancy on issues of sexuality and gender all the more pressing. Bottom line, it would be difficult for the church of Jesus Christ to speak too often of . . . Continue reading →

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