PT Johnston is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the St. Olaf College Religion Department. PT (Patricia) is Roman Catholic and gender non-conforming. As she says in a blog post: “Everyone’s biological sex is a spectrum, not a binary.” Yet every cell in the human body marks individuals as either male or female, with males bearing […]
Nigerian girls sustained by the Word
How did they survive? The Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. Some of 276 who were taken were killed. A few escaped. A group of 103 were ransomed last year, and they now live at American University of Nigeria. The Wall Street Journal reports: “A year ago, most of these young […]
US Christianity is not shrinking – 2
Gene Veith provides further analysis of the new findings that US Christianity is not declining but moderate denominations are. Believers with “intense” faith are restless. What should churches do? Veith points to the need for churches to evangelize their own members. With which gospel? Not that of an infallible church, an inerrant scripture, or infallible […]
US Christianity is not shrinking
US Christianity is growing stronger, not shrinking. But where is the Reformation concern for the pure gospel and sacraments? The ELCA has bought into relativism and yet at the same time an ecclesiastical authoritarianism. LCMC, the NALC, and the LCMS have bought into the authority of an inerrant Bible. Gerhard Forde describes the problem and […]
In the News
The firing of Rev Jacob Worley – Anglican Samizda How the exodus began. Read more here. Rev. Jacob Worley | Anglican Samizdat “…bishops regard obfuscation as a vocational calling…” – read more here.