Keller thought a strength of Protestantism is its willingness to innovate but a weakness its unwillingness to cooperate. But he knew from history that innovations were sustained only when they became institutions.
I met my husband on a dating app. We’ve had a mixed reactions when we tell people how we met. My husband Tom apparently told his cousins we met through ‘mutual friends’, to avoid the awkwardness. We’ve had people acknowledge it’s just like a new form of speed dating, and even some encourage us for being proactive. It’s tricky being a conservative Christian but growing up in a society where there’s an app for everything. So I thought I would add my two cents as someone who owes her marriage to her phone. 1. Find an App where Religion...
In the midst of a passage about marriage, Christ, the Church, headship and submission, the apostle Paul alludes to the love command: “love your neighbour as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18): In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. (Ephesians 5:28) However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5:33) The imaginative ethical reciprocity built into the love command appears to also be in the background of Paul’s discussion of marriage and singleness in 1...
The Scriptures are fully sufficient to guide us to salvation, the worship of God and the godly life. We do not need to supplement Scripture with human traditions or philosophy, as if it were incomplete. However, it is important to understand that Sola Scriptura does not demand a simple kind of biblicism—believing nothing but what individual texts explicitly teach—as if that were ever actually possible. As the Westminster Confession of Faith describes: The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good...
I have been to quite a number of Christian weddings—it is a delight to witness two people coming together to serve God. The happiness that the couple exude is infectious and it is exciting to be around that much love. It is a beautiful event to be a part of and I am always delighted that people invite me to be a part of their special day. But it is not necessarily easy to attend weddings as a single person. The day is a reminder of what I deeply desire but do not have. Couples sit each other in church...
