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View MoreIn a recent church small group, in which I was the youngest participant by several decades, I witnessed a surprising display of emotion. Older women—saints in the church who have nurtured and fed me literally and spiritually—tearfully sharing painful memories from their middle school years. Here, in the winter seasons [...]
The New Testament does not present the Lord’s Supper as an occasional supplement to Christian worship, but as something bound up with the church’s gathered life. The Supper appears there not by way of explicit scheduling command—“observe this weekly”—but through a pattern [...]
When Seminaries Stop Believing in God: A Personal Witness to Theological Drift at Claremont School of Theology
Doctrine is not decorative. It is constitutive. The church does not merely possess a creedal faith; she is shaped by it, governed by it, and sustained through it. When orthodoxy is quietly displaced, institutions may continue to function administratively, yet they no longer recognize their purpose. They become [...]
Throughout the Old Testament, the people of God are repeatedly warned about the making of idols and images which are false. This finds its most explicit articulation in the first two commandments of the Ten Commandments given on Mount Sinai (Exod. 20:4–5). Yet a few weeks later in the story, the people of Israel are [...]
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I was blessed with a grandfather who modeled a life that represented an impeccably well-ordered hierarchy of loves. Jasper N. Dorsey (1913–1990), whom we all called “Papa,” was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, friend, churchman, patriot, and public servant. He was the most honorable man I have ever known. [...]
In this essay, I want to make the case that disciple-making belongs exclusively to the church, because disciples are made by God alone through the liturgy—the ministry of word and sacrament in gathered worship. Liturgy is discipleship; discipleship is liturgical. [...]
Holly Pivec and R. Douglas Geivett are apologists and recognized experts on the New Apostolic Reformation movement. I first met Holly and Doug in 2018 when I was publisher for Lexham Press. We had recently acquired the rights to their first two books on the dangers of this movement. [...]
