The efforts to use inclusive language to refer to God are in conflict with today's gender sensitivity, in which we should accept the gender that a person affirms, regardless of other considerations, and use that person's preferred pronouns. God has given us His preferred pronouns. He has told us His gender identity.
As I've been blogging about "the great dechurching," I was reading a book that I was asked to review with a more encouraging message about the future of Christianity: Justin Brierley's "The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God." He chronicles how the New Atheists crashed and burned and how serious thinkers are changing their attitudes about God and Christianity.
"The Stupid Party" vs. "the Evil Party," playing fast and loose with abortion statistics, and how archaeologists recognize a brothel.
A study from the Baptist research group Lifeway has found that most Protestants, both evangelical and mainline, believe, to one extent or another, in the prosperity gospel. And mainline liberal Protestants are the worst offenders.
Some Senate Republicans are saying that pro-lifers need to change their terminology. What do you think?
The Christian view of the nature of marriage and its purposes is stated both in the Bible and in the church's wedding liturgies. Examples from the Book of Common Prayer and from the Lutheran Service Book.
Liberal theologians used to argue with conservative theologians about truth claims--the inerrancy of Scripture, the historicity of Christ's resurrection, and the like. Now the divide is over sexual morality. So observes Carl Trueman in a discussion of the new issues Christian must face.
"God doesn't need our good works. Our neighbor does." That's a great quote from Luther, but did he really say it? The source of that quote and two times when Luther develops that idea in his sermons.
Trump and the 14th Amendment, a plea for a church for the nones, and a scientist confesses how he left out the whole truth so he could get published.
I have always thought that advocates of theocracy--whether the dominionism of the Reformed, the Seven Mountains Mandate of the Pentecostalists, or the Integralism of the Catholics--were mainly engaged in a theoretical exercise. How would that be possible in our highly secular society? But the integralist Adrian Vermeule has some strategies for imposing Catholic rule.
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