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A few weeks ago, I wrote the following in this space: We should also stop conflating the church and the natural family as if the former may be substituted for the latter. While there is some overlap, and family works as a metaphor to describe the church, these are two separate spheres that God has […]
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If you are looking for more from the Westminster Confession of Funk, check out my blog hosted by the Fight, Laugh, Feast Network. Check out my books at amazon.com/author/jason_farley. And visit Jovial Press for more.
If you are looking for more from the Westminster Confession of Funk, check out my blog hosted by the Fight, Laugh, Feast Network. Become a member of the Fight, Laugh, Feast Network today! Check out my books at amazon.com/author/jason_farley. And visit Jovial Press for more. My new book, Robo-Buffer, I am not Human, is available now on Amazon. […]
Let’s discuss how to win the battle against social media and the battles that have come before.
In my first church job the Pastor gave me a bit of advice that stuck. Children learn most of their theology from the songs that their church sings. They may not remember your sermons, but they will carry the songs they sing in church the rest of their lives. This is not just true of […]
Round Two Same-sex mirage and divorce. Same-sex mirage and fornication. In a previous post, I argued that far too often, the idolatry we enshrine in our own hearts matches the idolatry present in same-sex mirage. As Christians, when we countenance any sort of abuse of God’s gifts of sexual intimacy and marriage, namely divorce and […]
Post One in the series “A Church for the Next Generation” The church, we are told, is graying rapidly. Churches in rural areas are shrinking as Americans migrate to the cities, while churches in urban areas are not the bastions of ethnic and religious solidarity they once were. One Philadelphia church, its congregation having dwindled […]
The Christian Church is in exile. Not that we are living in tents (though many church buildings may qualify as temporary). Instead, there is a deeper exile. The soul of the American Church is in the plot point of the epic poem in which the protagonist becomes a homeless wanderer Like the exiled warrior of […]
The church in America has in part given way to a social club that maintains the apparatus of Christianity while providing different social classes, from the lower middle class on up, respectability and community. This respectability and community sometimes comes at the cost of exclusion of the poor and less-educated.
Netflix’ new documentary Hip Hop Evolution is a history of the development and rise of Hip Hop and Rap. In one of the interviews, Ice T, a primeval purveyor of Gangster Rap, talks about his early rhymes: “I was just writing about my reality.” He was trying to capture “the laid back vibe of reality.” The people in the neighborhood listened because they recognized their life in his words. According to Ice Cube, another early Gangster Rapper, Ice T wrote rhymes that “were our version of what a day in the life of Los Angeles was like.” They were not trying to create a new genre. They wanted to fetter their daily insanity with verse.
How should immigration look in our current context, and was Trump’s immigration executive order wrong-headed? We also discuss what walls are good for, and what the Old Testament has to say about building walls. Lastly we interview the director of Is Genesis History? Thomas Purifoy Jr. Throughout most of history, Genesis was considered an accurate and […]
Coming at you live from New Saint Andrews College, CrossPolitic host a discussion on Church and race with Dr. Voddie Baucham and Pastor Doug Wilson. This topic gets a lot of attention in our culture and in our churches, but with little substance or progress in the conversations. Adding to the challenges of this discussion, we […]
The debate over homosexuality is raging as much as it ever was. Indeed, arguments advocating its acceptance have gotten more and more fabulous. This has not diminished the need for Christians to give a defense of what the Bible says about homosexuality but only increased it. But when it comes to actually confronting unbelievers about […]
Bekah Merkle, wife of Dr. Ben Merkle president of New Saint Andrews College, joins us to discuss why biblical femininity lost its way and how to recover the Christian role for women in this world. Christians can focus on real women, so what did God make real women for? You can find Bekah’s new book here […]
The Church Curmudgeon, brainchild of David Regier, is the old guy who sits on the back pew just waiting to find something wrong with your service. Every church has one and this is why the Curmudgeon hits all the wrong notes in all the right ways. Join our discuss as we fight, laugh, and feast […]
American Christianity has surrendered ground in areas that have supposed “little gospel application”. But the Lordship of Christ is over every area of our lives, and this means the gospel applies to everything–including our healthcare. Dr. Jim Brook, author of The High Price of Socialized Medicine, joins us to discuss why the free market would provide higher quality, […]
Why is the church is so impotent when it comes to impacting culture? According to the Pew Research Center evangelicals make up about 70% of the US population, and yet why are we so impotent at influencing our culture for the good of our country and the glory of God? Pastor Doug Wilson joins us […]
President Dr. Ben Merkle (New Saint Andrews) joins CrossPolitic to discuss why the empty promises of higher education are so expensive. We also dive into the recent Town Hall debate with #neithertrumphillary and why Jerry Falwell Jr. triples down on his support for Trump. And the author of Fail U, Charlie Sykes, joins us to […]
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