The Institute for Jewish & Community Research found in a study that college faculty share significantly more negative feelings toward evangelical Christians than toward any other religious group.

We may be weak disciples or new disciples or struggling disciples, but we are all disciples.

In June, the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalized same-sex marriage nationally. Since then, many PCA sessions have been asking about how to respond to the new situation this decision has created.

Ambivalence toward formal church membership is increasingly common, and not without reasons.

Adam was not alone. The earth was teeming with living things. But that was the problem: none of those living things were like him, none were suitable for him, none could heal his aloneness.

We’re not to be swayed by fickle public opinion, or the latest fad, or by some deception that entices susceptible minds. These “prescriptions and doctrines of men,” Paul warns, lure us away from Christ and rob of us of life’s meaning.

Because it’s disturbing to talk about, we sanitize the most personal, traumatic of experiences for public, political consumption. But the cultural foundations that lead to sexual violence extend layers beneath the political landscape.

Culturally, we are in Babylon and are facing solipsism (the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist) as our fundamental philosophical point of reference.

A church of about 170 nestled in one of Dayton’s affluent, largely white suburbs, South Dayton Presbyterian doesn’t seem the most natural location for an outreach to non-English speakers.

A traditional interim is essentially pulpit supply. But an intentional interim has a ministry akin to that of John the Baptist: He prepares the way for the next pastor.