Announcing the Manhattan Declaration
I've signed and so should you, at least if you care about the future of the Christian witness in the public discourse of our nation: The Manhattan Declaration I find this effort to be extremely hopeful. Anytime we can get Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Evangelical Protestant leaders together to witness to God's vision for the human family and the value of human life is a great thing!

PC(USA) Bizarroworld: Claiming a relationship that does not exist.
Knowing that this post will probably get about a hundred remonstrances, I still have to ask: What kind of fantasy world is this pastor living in? I mean the GAPJC has ruled that such a thing does not even exist. So, is she a delusional dreamer or a resident of PC(USA) Bizarroworld?

Climate Change: Why people often leave us and how we can remain.
With the PC(USA) corner of the internet all ablaze with the recent public declaration of a former evangelical PC(USA) professor that he has now left the fold and with the comments pro and con on the blogosphere about this announcement, we are left to wonder if anything more needs to be said. But this is blogging. Of course there is more to be said! I don't want to write about Achtemeier or Carmen Fowler or any one situation specifically today. I want to write about the locus of the mainline church and why we lose our own to madness and error. I think this is the larger issue and this is what brings the lament from our souls whenever one who formerly p

Reaction to the proposed Larges ordination: Whatever.
Perhaps it seems that my blogging has been markedly silent on the pressing issues of our day. It may also seem that I'm being fairly cautious when I approach the topic of the recent decision of San Francisco Presbytery to send Lisa Larges on to ordination or even to comment on the Stay of Enforcement that is in place to bar that ordination made possible by constitutionalists in that presbytery. You're right! I have been pretty uninterested in such things as of late. So, is it malaise, fatigue or neglect? None of the above, I hope. I'm just so dreadfully uninterested in all of this because it has all happened before. Way back to my time in Missionless Presbytery I w

Baxter Brings It!
Richard Baxter always knew how to hit us right where we need to be hit:Directions for Hating SinRichard Baxter (1615-1691) Direct. I. Labour to know God, and to be affected with his attributes, and always to live as in his sight.—No man can know sin perfectly, because no man can know God perfectly. You can no further know what sin is than you know what God is, whom you sin against; for the formal malignity of sin is relative, as it is against the will and attributes of God. The godly have some knowledge of the malignity of sin, because they have some knowledge of God that is wronged by it. The wicked have no practical, prevalent