Who is the Pope?
From the NYR: On December 22, 2014, Pope Francis delivered the traditional papal Christmas speech to the assembled ranks of the Roman Curia. This annual meeting with the staff of the church’s central...
View ArticleThe Sad Story of the Evangelical Power Team
From Vice: The hulking members of the Power Team—veins budged, muscles swollen, eyes lit from radiant fire within—knew this. They’d come to this realization through years of practice, performing, and...
View ArticleThe Church’s Newest Doctor
First Things on Francis’s odd choice: This week, Pope Francis did something unprecedented. (One could perhaps write that sentence every week.) He named, as a Doctor of the Universal Church, a...
View ArticleThe Price of Church Splits
From Get Religion: Sometimes a news story drags on bit by bit, piece by piece, over the years and becomes so tedious that reporters miss the dramatic cumulative impact. It also doesn’t help that long,...
View ArticleReviving a Dead Language
This is a project to get excited about: This Easter season, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Davenant Latin Institute, our largest project to date. Responding to the urgently-felt need...
View ArticleWill Pope Francis Break the Church
Douthat in the Atlantic: In 1979, almost a year into the papacy of John Paul II, a novel called The Vicar of Christ spent 13 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. The work of a Princeton legal...
View ArticleWilson and Leithart Debate the Church
Littlejohn sums up an interesting conversation: Wilson kicked things off with an opening statement taken more or less straight out of the redoubtable Paul Avis’s magnificent Church in the Theology of...
View ArticleThe Latest on Rome and SSM
From the NCR: A one-day study meeting — open only to a select group of individuals — took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Monday with the aim of urging “pastoral innovations” at the...
View ArticleThe Child Preachers of Brazil
Via the NYT: It was fall in Brazil, and rain drizzled under a gray moon. The faithful were beginning to arrive at the International Mission of Miracles, a Pentecostal church in the poor and...
View ArticlePresbyterians, Race, and the Old Testament
Matthew Tuininga being interesting: The primary problem with southern Presbyterian defenses of segregation was not that they assumed an individualistic view of sin but that they embraced a...
View ArticleThe Invisibility of High Churches
Interesting piece: The point is that in the end nobody, at least nobody with a proper command of church history, believes that their church today, in visible outward terms, is the same as the apostolic...
View ArticleChildren of the Tribes
Pacific Standard: Shuah Jones, 15, stuffed clothes under her bed blankets in the shape of a body, grabbed her diary and Bible, and crept downstairs. Wearing a long blue linen skirt and clunky buckled...
View ArticleThe Latest Controversy in the PCA’s Missouri Presbytery, Explained
Last weekend the Chapel, a secular arts venue owned and operated by Memorial Presbyterian Church, a PCA congregation in St Louis, MO, hosted Transluminate, an arts festival put on by an LGBTQ+ advocacy...
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COVID-19 Packet
I’m putting together a list of resources for people to use as they deal with various aspects of life under social distancing during a pandemic. If there are other pieces you have found useful that fill...
View ArticleSummarizing the PCA Committee Report on Human Sexuality
Though this summer’s General Assembly has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PCA’s Ad Interim Committee on Human Sexuality has published their report, which was to be given at GA. At 62...
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