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I recently had a chance to discuss the topic of Supreme Court nominations with a young woman who was studying for a career in law. Some of the terms we used included confirmation hearings, Senate committee, Federal Appeals Panel, separation of powers, checks and balances, and Chappaquiddick. In order to carry on our conversation, we [...]
Continue Reading →The purpose of culture is not to reach the lost or give authentic expression for Christians; it is to express and cultivate right worship.
In my last article I addressed the argument for using contemporary music forms based on a missions philosophy that stresses indigenous ministry. I suggested that such an argument is [...]
Continue Reading →And all would serve, the more speedily and effectually, to change the taste of Indians, and to bring them off from their barbarism and brutality, to a relish for those things, which belong to civilization and refinement.
Another thing, which properly belongs to a Christian education, and which would be unusually popular with them, and [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, I spoke at the Preserving the Truth Conference in Troy, MI. Of the three points that I made in my presentation (notes, audio), one is especially relevant to the discussion of missions.
The antithesis, then, presents us a goal: to explore and articulate a Christianity that is [...]
Continue Reading →Jonathan Edwards very much wanted to see the American Indians believe the gospel. His famous grandfather, Solomon Stoddard, had published in 1723 a sermon asking Whether God is not angry with the country for doing so little towards the conversion of the Indians? After being ousted at Northampton over the communion controversy in [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s the reality: those of us blogging here fully realize that our positions are not popular. Not popular, I suppose, greatly underestimates the matter: for many Christians today, our positions are not even fathomable—it is impossible for them to believe that anyone could hold a position as outlandish, and even as offensive, as ours. And [...]
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