Coldplay, Legitimate Couples, and The Hypocrisy of The Sexular Age

‘I did say that cheating on one’s spouse is NEVER okay, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that we are so inoculated by The Sexular Age that there is one scenario on that unfortunate Coldplay concert night in which there may have been a more muted disapproval.’ Steve McAlpine looks at our wider cultural hypocrisy on sexuality. Impossible (I think) to disagree with him here.

The Most Common FALLACY Used Against Christianity (video)

You will almost certainly have seen this fallacy used against Christianity. You have probably committed this fallacy yourself. This one looks at how we can address it when it happens to us and how we can aim to avoid committing it ourselves.

Marrying an Unbeliever

This one is a lament that not nearly enough of us lament properly: ‘Today I’m glowing blue. You, my precious daughter, have decided to marry an unbeliever. When you broke the news, I tried to smile, but deep inside where the deep hurts hurt, I was crying. Forgive me, please, precious daughter. I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but parents have dreams as well.’

5 dangers to avoid in parenting

This one looks at various ways we might end up discouraging and exasperating our children.

You Come to the Bible With Assumptions

‘There was a time, especially during my 20s, when I thought people could and should approach the Bible with a (supposed) neutral posture. My concern was about the effect bias has on us, and this concern was prompted and fed by some academic resources I’d been reading. My thought was, “If I come to this text with predispositions, that bias is going to affect how I interpret it.”’

In Praise of Honest Hypocrisy

We all, rightly, despise hypocrisy. We all, unfortunately, can’t avoid it. This one looks at how we can be “honest hypocrites” and why that isn’t such a bad thing: ‘Hypocrisy is repugnant. It’s simply wrong to say one thing and then do another, and we are right to despise it. But I want to argue here that it is also unavoidable. We can so loathe hypocrisy and so prize authenticity that we are left unable to say anything about right or wrong at all.’

From the archive: A personality score isn’t grounds to neglect Jesus’ commands. But nor should it be ignored.

‘We need to be alive to the reality of Christian freedom. The question isn’t about allowing people to ditch the commands of Christ, it is about allowing them to express and apply those commands in ways that might be different to how we fulfil them. We do well not to force any particular types into specific moulds, but to allow them to serve Christ, as best they are able, in and through the personality that he has given to them.’