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On Images (or Against Images)

Colin Fast
Aug 14, 2024
We live in an image-obsessed culture – everything we do is captured in images: photographs, drawings, videos, and TikToks. Images and images and images and images. They help us think. They help us learn. They help us better understand ideas and concepts. ‘I’m just a visual person,’ some will...

Gender, Sexuality, and What it Means to Be Human Podcast

Jonathan Master
Sep 5, 2022
The title of the most recent Blue Ridge Bible Conference seems an appropriate descriptor for today's episode of Theology on the Go. Jonathan and James discuss the biblical, familial, and social implications of the latest manifestation of gender dysphoria: transgenderism. Why is a decision to reject...

Giving Sight to the Blind

Martin Blocki
Mar 15, 2021
Back in the 1980’s when my wife and I were pursuing our Master’s degrees in music at Arizona State University, before we understood Reformed/Covenant Theology, we experienced first-hand a situation similar to what is given to us in the Gospel of John, chapter 9. Seeing a blind man, the disciples...

A Matter of Life and Death

Amy Mantravadi
Dec 4, 2019
The issue of abortion is one of the most divisive in modern political discourse. The option for a woman to end a pregnancy has been proclaimed by some to be a basic right, while others have decried it as the murder of a fellow human being. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult for so-called "pro-...

Adoption and the Image of God

David Barry
Mar 25, 2019
When I was in my early 20s, I met a college friend of my parents for the first time. After a short conversation, she smiled and commented, "You're just like your dad!" She wasn't just referring to my appearance, but to my personality, mannerisms, and demeanor. She was talking about what I was like...

No Mere Morality Issue

Nathan Shurden
Jan 25, 2019
I was gutted this week when I heard that the New York State Senate passed the Reproductive Health Act, giving women the right to abortion up to the point of birth. I welled up with grief imagining the thousands of boys and girls who will be killed as a consequence of this expanded abortion law. Why...

The Statement on SJ&G Explained: Article 10, Sexuality and Marriage

James White
Nov 5, 2018
[Editorial Note: This is the tenth post in a series of posts in which we have invited the authors of "The Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel" to expound upon the statement's affirmations and denials. We encourage our readers to take the time to read through our prefatory editorial note at...

Love Thy Body

Louis Markos
Feb 6, 2018
Nancy Pearcey, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality , Baker, 2018. 336 pages, hardcover, $22.99 The Fall of 2017 saw a rash of sexual misconduct accusations and lawsuits leveled against such high-profile celebrities as Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose and...

Love Thy Body

Louis Markos
Feb 6, 2018
Nancy Pearcey, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality , Baker, 2018. 336 pages, hardcover, $22.99 The Fall of 2017 saw a rash of sexual misconduct accusations and lawsuits leveled against such high-profile celebrities as Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose and...

God and the Transgender Debate

Tom Breeden
Jan 25, 2018
Andrew T. Walker, God and the Transgender Debate: What Does the Bible Actually Say About Gender Identity? , The Good Book Company, 2017. 174pp. Paperback., $14.99 Introduction It seems that hardly a week passes without a new gender related story making headlines. Is it a magazine's cover story as a...