The Dating Hero, The Real St. Nicholas
I found myself watching a movie called “Red One.” It cast Santa Claus as—guess what?—a super-hero. The original St. Nicholas of Myra was instead a dating hero.
An Ancient Tradition for a Modern Problem
The Modern Problem is understanding gender. The Ancient Tradition is vestigia Trinitatis. That Latin term, meaning “traces of the Trinity,” looks through the doctrine of the Trinity to see how that truth about God illumines the way the world is. The simple reasoning is, if this is the way God is, it would likely show up in how He made …
Techno-Pagan Shadows Growing
Here is a term we should all know: in vitro gametogenesis (IVG). It will soon play a key role in the story of humanity’s unfolding.
Women Wanted for the Whole Job
I was this week reading a theology book by a reverent, orthodox yet creative theologian for whom I have immense respect. But my esteemed teacher misspoke.
News from 14th Century Sienna: Life-Inspired Painting
Currently, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition entitled, Sienna: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350. Mary K. and I had the opportunity to visit and wonder at this picture of transformation. Brought together for the first time, the work of three artists of Sienna, Italy, shows the moment when Western painting evolved to represent naturalistic detail. …
The Real Gender-Nonconforming (Giving Up Hope on Relationship)
One of the worst doctrines of our current culture dictates that little boys who like pink, or little girls who like dump trucks, are “gender nonconforming.”
I Will Not Punish Your Daughters
The ancient prophet, Hosea, distinguishes gender in a coming judgment. One of the Bible’s passing references to asymmetry demonstrate its consistent message.
Augustine’s Costly Miss
We have much to thank the Titan of Theological Discourse for. But he missed where the Scriptures point us to picture the central truth about God.
Should I Wait to Date?
Shall I finish my school program before dating? What you do is less important than how you think about doing it. Here is how to think it through.
The two-in-oneness of husband and wife expands with a child into a three-in-oneness
A long Echoing Voice The Dutch theologian, Herman Bavinck, has been called the most important theologian of the twentieth century. My son and daughter in law named their dog after him, so there’s that. If you know the name, you probably associate it with his four volume Reformed Dogmatics, happily translated into English just in 2009. He was a …