Category Archives: CRC

How the Pulse Tragedy Tempts the CRC to forget their Confessional Scripts and Mimic the Competing Civil Religions of our Day

Confessions in the Papers Over the next few weeks we will read a lot of statement like this piece in the Orlando Sentinel.  The piece is an appeal for the church to love like Jesus did and love as Jesus commanded. … Continue reading

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Overture 31 from Wisconsin and the Confessional Conversation

i A friend asked my comment on Overture 31 from Wisconsin in the light of my confessional conversation discussion. The overture nails the defects of the Pastoral Guidance report.  I think it’s probably the best, concise treatment of the report from … Continue reading

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What a Confessional Convention Might Look Like

I’ve been pushing this idea of a Confessional Conversation  as a way forward on the conflict over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ liberation and struggling to answer the question “what would that actually look like?” A few posts ago I talked about … Continue reading

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Cedric Parsels blogs on Synod and SSM

Introduction part 2

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The Banner and Me and Us

James Schaap Who my age will forget a pair of wooden shoes blazing away on the cover, set there by an immigrant preacher/editor who may well have been more Dutch than most of his readers? People cared deeply about issues, … Continue reading

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YALT: Looking Forward to Synod

http://weareyalt.org/looking-forward-synod/#.V1hWU4-cGUn

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CRC and RCA Synods on Same Sex Marriage

Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell Scott Hoezee

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How Confessions Relocate Law

It Gets Better Whichever way you go on LGBTQ you can’t simply deny or avoid stories or judgments like these. For so many people these stories just expose the judgment of the tellers as self evident, but if you embrace … Continue reading

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Two or more kinds of Scripture Scholarship by Alvin Plantinga

Calvin College Or the whole book on Warranted Christian Belief on CCEL

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Confessional Commitment and Academic Freedom at Calvin College

Calvin College

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