In the 1920’s and 30’s the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. was convulsed by the fundamentalist! modernist controversy. The public issue in the controversy was whether or not the church should require its pastors to adhere to what were then called the “fundamentals” of the faith, doctrines such as the full inspiration of the Bible. the […]

I hope I am wrong, and I hate to say it, but twenty years of the pro-life movement, representing millions of dollars and millions of hours of work, have had only limited success. It is true that we have some pro-life Supreme Court justices, and we have some fine pro-life organizations and crisis pregnancy centers, […]

Ever since the Sexual Revolution of the 60’s and the 70’s, western Christians have been tempted to retreat from traditional Biblical sexual ethics. Even if our personal practice has not changed, we have felt some pressure with regard to our teaching, either to raise our voices because of the conflict with our culture, or else […]

“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14). Every year at this time the attention of Christians comes back again and again to one miracle in the Bible: The Virgin Birth of Jesus. Our […]

This past January those of us who are us citizens had to sadly acknowledge that abortion has been widely and legally available for a full 25 years. In spite of the diligent efforts of many of our “pro-lifers,” some 30 to 40 million children, teenagers and young adults are missing from our country. And this […]

In a previous article I argued that to see a significant reduction in the number of abortions in America we need to repeal the Sexual Revolution of the 60’s and 70’s, because popular acceptance of divorce, abortion and extra-marital sex form a unified cultural pattern. The three sins became socially acceptable in one cultural transition […]

Outlook readers probably all sensed God’s hand at work in 1989 when the Communist governments of Eastern Europe began to collapse. One after the other they toppled like dominoes in a row . It seemed to me that God was both judging the system of communism and offering the people who had lived in darkness […]