Sexual Ethics

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...

Redemption from the Powerful Art of Selling Fake News

Mortification of Spin
May 12, 2021
Carl and Todd can truly say that they have “arrived” when they have the privilege to chat with former Cosmopolitan magazine writer Sue Ellen Browder! Our guest played an important role in the feminist movement and “sexual revolution” of the 1970s, 80s, and beyond. Sue’s story is compelling as she...
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Healing His Patient Slowly

Nick Batzig
Jan 21, 2020
Recently, I preached on the devastating consequences of Jacob’s polygamous and incestuous marriage to Leah and Rachel. This was not the first time the Old Testament confronts us with the sticky problem of polygamy. It first appears in the genealogical record of Cain’s reprobate descendants, where...

The Westminster Statement on Biblical Sexuality

Jeffrey Windt
Jul 8, 2019
Ray Ortlund , one of the original signers of the Nashville Statement, in his book Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel , wrote poignantly on the gospel implications of taking a public stand on sexual issues in a culture such as ours: "Everyone who reveres the gospel has compelling reasons to...

An Evangelistic Time to Stand

Lamont English
Jul 6, 2019
A square circle. A married bachelor. An African-American millennial PCA pastoral intern who believes in biblical social justice and agreed with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) commending the Nashville Statement as a biblically faithful document. I not only agreed with it but I signed it...

Four Cheers for PCA Approval of the Nashville Statement

Richard D. Phillips
Jul 1, 2019
There have not been many times over the last twenty years in the PCA General Assembly when I had no idea how a crucial vote was going to turn out. Late last Thursday night (or was it Friday morning?), the GA's vote on the Nashville Statement was one of them. The Nashville Statement was produced by...

When Dead Men Speak...

Adam Parker
Jun 13, 2019
I just finished watching the TV miniseries Chernobyl . I was brought to tears by the end of the series. In the final episode (spoiler alert, the reactor explodes), Legasov, the nuclear expert rises to speak before the Soviet tribunal tasked with determining whose fault the explosion of Chernobyl...

Christians in the Cultural Closet

Terry L. Johnson
Mar 27, 2019
Our society celebrates the openness with which it accepts homosexuality and transgenderism. It contrasts our present enlightened times with past eras when what are now called "sexual minorities," LGBTQers, were once consigned to the closets, forced to keep their "sexual identity" hidden. Now those...

The Rhetoric of An Affirming Non-Ministry

Zachary Groff
Mar 4, 2019
Last week in St. Louis, representatives of the United Methodist Church from around the world gathered together for a special session of their General Conference. The delegates to the meeting collectively represented over 12 million church members, worldwide. Called for the purpose of considering a...

The Karen Pence Rule

Adam Parker
Jan 21, 2019
Recently it was announced that Karen Pence - a private citizen who is not even occupying an elected office in the United States of America - is going to resume her teaching career at a Christian school. Part of this school's beliefs is that homosexual behavior is a sin, and they require their...