Articles: Culture
A Sad Day
It was a very sad day for the Christian church, for Protestantism, and particularly for Presbyterianism. May 10, 2011 the Presbytery of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, voted to remove all restrictions on practicing homosexuals (and practicing fornicators for that matter) from serving as clergy. Because it was the 87th Presbytery to do so, their vote to amend the church’s constitution confirmed the action last summer of the PCUSA’s General Assembly, opening the door for their ordination. The new policy will be effective July 10. How do things like this happen? How can it be that the denominational heirs of John Calvin and John Knox, of Archibald Alexander and Charles Hodge, of B. B. Warfield and J. Gresham Machen, have come to this? more...
Childrearing in a Hostile Culture
It is almost unbelievable to me how crude America's public life has become. It has become so bad that even secular commentators are concerned (e.g., recent issue of U.S. News and World Report). Perhaps we have been newly sensitized to vulgarity by the recent spat of Jane Austin movies, which portray life in a more restrained, genteel, well-mannered era. Indeed life then was so different from our life today that one commentator likened it to a visit to Mars, to a culture utterly unlike our own. Does the Christian community have an interest in promoting a more polite society, or is this a matter of indifference to us? more...