by Steven Schafer | Dec 12, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following is an adapted excerpt from Schafer’s book, “Marriage, Sex and Procreation: Contemporary Revisions to Augustine’s Theology of Marriage,” (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2019). It is used with permission. The book is available to purchase...
by Roger Olson | Oct 9, 2018 | Opinion
“Situation ethics” was popularized in the 1960s by Joseph Fletcher. As I shared previously, the writings of Augustine and Luther contain similar lines of thought to Fletcher’s ideas set forth in his book, “Situation Ethics: The New Morality,” but with several...
by Roger Olson | Oct 8, 2018 | Opinion
When I was a kid growing up in the “thick” of American evangelical Christianity in the 1960s, we were warned about one great horrible “bugaboo” (cause for fear and alarm), which would infect our thinking and lead us down a road to complete personal decadence and...
by David Hughes | Mar 14, 2013 | General
A se rmon by David Hughes, First Baptist Church, Winston Salem, N.C. Psalm 32:1-7; 1 John 1:5-9Imagine that you keep a personal journal in which you write with absolute honesty about your life. You assume no one else will read this journal so you don’t hold back. You...
