An Anniversary that Deserves More than a Mug
The Orthodox Presbyterian Church turns 75 today. Festivities have so far included lectures, presentations from the General Secretaries of the Assembly’s standing committees, a banquet tonight, and the...
View ArticleWhy Do Reformed Think They Are Evangelical?
If Reformed Protestantism is basically evangelical then how do you account for the major divisions that have occurred among American Presbyterians? The fundamentalist controversy apparently has nothing...
View ArticleMore than You Bargained For?
If a person living in the United States discovers that he prefers democracy to other forms of political governance, glaces at the major parties and discovers a Democratic Party, and decides that’s the...
View ArticleThree Strikes and You’re Out
The piece by David Noe on Christian education (or the lack of it) has attracted a number of heated responses and none of them give much confidence that the proponents of Christian education are going...
View ArticleVossians and Neo-Calvinists Together?
I have puzzled often about the lack of support in Vossian circles for two-kingdom theology. Many Vossians I know — and I consider myself to be one — find the spirituality of the church agreeable but...
View ArticleBeing Reformed and Avoiding Landmines
I don’t want to discourage the young and restless from growing in their understanding of Reformed Protestantism but sometimes even the best of intentions cannot prevent stepping in it. Over at the...
View ArticleMore Van Tillian Than Thou
The new book that critiques republication (the idea that the Mosaic Covenant had in some sense a works principle) is curious in various respects. But one of the more glaring (if the paper originally...
View ArticleMore Orthodox Presbyterians in the News
Sometimes, people who grew up in the church make news in a variety of ways. Here is a story about a woman who is the daughter of an executive in OPC foreign missions: Chrissy Clawson, 35, a manager at...
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