Joseph Horton: The Methodist Church is coming apart
The news of an amicable split of the church of my youth brings feelings of sadness for what could have been and hopefulness for what will be.
What’s In Your Locker?
I had a chance to open my mouth in sentences beginning, “Jesus tells us…”
How To Actually Support The Parents of Theybies
You know what is hard? Life in general. If you expect life in general to be easy peasy, parenting will be hard for you. And if you think that you are the center of your own universe, parenting will be the apocalypse, because the clash between you and the baby will be epic.
Recognizing Critical Theory
How many books by people of color do you have on your shelves? How about women? When you reach for a commentary do you inevitably grab one written by a white male? What about the Bible you read, were the translators mostly white and male? My guess is that you have...
Christopher Tolkien Has Died
A son, utterly devoted to his father’s brilliant literary legacy, has died. Requiescat In Pace
The Baby Is Still Not That Important
Much like the much confused American pursuit of happiness, which, having chucked the necessary element of virtue to the curb, has produced a generation of deeply unhappy people, so also recasting the purpose of parenting to be the rearing of a self-expressive child is bringing about the collapse of society. Think I’m being hyperbolic? I’m not. Children in this culture are unhappier than ever before and in any other place around the world.
Follow Your Heart?
About a year ago I posted the following on Facebook after reading an article by Joyce Meyer that advises Christian readers to read the bible, pray, and then, “follow your heart.” I wrote (with perhaps a bit of hyperbole): “Yes, check the bible. Yes. Pray. But no, do...
Jesus’ Affirmation of Our Sexual Identities
There are fair criticisms of churches’ historically extreme and even lethal takes on sexuality.
Justice for Nick Sandmann — and All of Us
The persecution of Sandmann and the Covington Catholic High School students could easily happen to any of us.
How Disappointing
Just as God reveals himself to humanity in the Man Jesus Christ, so also you must reveal yourself to the world in some identifiable way. When you do this, your bravery and courage will bring harmony and healing to a broken world.
Red Letter Lunacy
Fats Waller famously said of jazz, “if you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.” That should be the Reds’ approach to just war theory.
Are the Creeds Enough?
If an ordained leader in the church professes and truly believes the Creeds but promotes transgenderism and homosexual unions, should we accept him as a genuine brother and legitimate Christian teacher? The question goes to the heart of discipleship; what does it mean...
Not Sure I Care
Apathy? Wow, sounds like a lot of church members, even clergy.
Methodists Agree to Split Denomination
Not So United Methodists
Fulfilled. He would Be Called a Nazarene.
Matthew’s infancy narrative closes with the most intriguing of his claims to a fulfilment of Old Testament promise and prophecy.
The ‘Transgender’ Endgame
If a culture can be made to pervert something as foundational and long held as marriage, why not target elementary biology?
Fulfilled. Rachel Weeping for her Children.
There’s one part of Matthew’s infancy narrative that never seems to make the Christmas Cards or school plays.
Fulfilled. Out of Egypt I Called My Son.
When Matthew cites the opening words “out of Egypt I called my son” he evokes thoughts of much more than simply the fact of the Exodus. “Out of Egypt I called my son” is a lament, the tragic cry of a Heavenly Father who has poured loved upon his child, guided them like a parent holds a toddler’s hands to help them learn to walk, and yet now watches them run away from him.
Wait, I’ve Read This Before: Hollis, Machiavelli, and Jesus
Why would a “Christian” book have so much in common with a funny one about terrible corporate executive culture in one of the richest countries in the world? Indeed, I myself thought it was rather strange.
UK School Forces 6-Year-Olds To Write Gay Love Letters
England. Fork. Some assembly required.