34 articles from 30 issues, 1995 to 2025 · Page 2 of 3
Why does the Bible, and not Christian experience, stand at the center of the faith? In a chapter from Christianity and Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen argues that the gospel rests on an event, that Scripture records it truly, and that liberalism puts human experience in its place.
Does the proposed replacement for G-6.0106b keep the church under the Lordship of Christ, or quietly drop its standard for ordination? Tom Hobson and Susan Cyre compare the two texts, answer common objections and urge a vote of no.
Can the debate over homosexuality and marriage be settled without first settling what we believe about God, the church and Scripture? Mary Holder Naegeli leads readers on a walk through the roots of the Presbyterian forest, from the Trinity to the Scripture tree.
What can sixteenth-century believers teach us about living under the Bible’s authority? Ann White follows Luther, Calvin and women such as Argula von Grumbach and Katherina Schutz Zell to show what faith, obedience and study looked like in the first Reforming generations.
If a pledge to obey Jesus Christ can be separated from obedience to Scripture, what is left of the church’s ordination standards? James Edwards argues that Amendment B drives that wedge, and that the Book of Confessions refuses it.
What happens to a church that treats the Bible like letters it no longer needs? Mary Holder Naegeli, drawing on Nehemiah 8, calls Presbyterians to read the Word aloud, explain it, and receive it again with joy.
Is the church’s trouble a lapse in biblical authority, or something older? Eric Laverentz calls it “hyper-humanism,” traces its family line through Arianism, Pelagianism and Donatism, and argues for patience, plain witness and trust that Christ has already won.
What can Presbyterians learn from a mainline denomination that lost nearly three million members in thirty years? James Heidinger of Good News offers five convictions from United Methodist renewal, from theological work to the courage to say no.
Did the Auburn Affirmation of 1924 offer a middle way for the church? Paul Leggett traces its history and argues that its view of Scripture, its attack on Assembly authority and its talk of “theories” left doctrine without any meaningful definition.
How does what we believe shape the way we see life and death? This Presbyterians Pro-Life curriculum, three sessions with questions for discussion, sets out a biblical worldview, the authority of Scripture and what it means to be made in God’s image.
Did reason alone, as the deists claimed, show humanity the truth about God? Gerald McDermott follows Jonathan Edwards’s argument that fallen reason fails without revelation, and explains why he defended the Bible against the deists.
Why has the Presbyterian Church (USA) shied away from the abortion question? Mark Patterson argues that the church has reasoned from the skepticism and individualism of the age instead of Scripture, and calls it back to a view of personhood grounded in God’s address to each life.
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