Within 24 hours of Synod 2022’s declaration that its stance on homosexual sex is confessional, I started receiving emails from people lamenting this decision.
Editorial
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Although orthodoxy and orthopraxy are both necessary, I think we have overemphasized them at the expense of orthocardia.
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We will always fight over something unless we face and resolve our underlying issues. As far as I can tell, we have collectively ignored them.
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Genuine peace requires transformation of hearts and relationships.
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Moderates within each party are often the most vulnerable and isolated.
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It seems we have a tendency to approach issues mostly as intellectual problems to be solved even when they involve real, complex people who need to be loved.
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We cannot cherry-pick one half of that verse and ignore the other half.
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How do we know if we have domesticated Scripture to feed our spiritual pride? There are at least three major signs.
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These facts are only a few in a long list of social ills, conflicts, and challenges God’s people have faced these past few years.
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For me, Christian spirituality is holistic because the biblical truth and worldview is holistic.
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Even though that 2013 report named them, I wonder how much these fears have been openly acknowledged and transparently wrestled with by CRC leaders.
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An estimated 150,000 children went through the residential school system, most of them traumatized and abused.
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If these collective strengths that we pride ourselves on can solve our decline, wouldn’t they have solved it by now?
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When through our words we reduce a person made in God’s image into an object of derision in our minds and hearts, we have made them less human.
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When we look at the world today with all its problems, from wars and racism to abortion and climate change, we are tempted to despair.
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The “evangelical” label in North America, especially in the United States, has over the years taken on a meaning beyond its historical roots.
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True, God shows no partiality or favoritism (Rom. 2:11; Eph. 6:9). But God does not erase our ethnic or racial differences either. We need to avoid two extremes.
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In striving to be a fair forum for diverse perspectives in the denomination, I know that not everyone will be happy with some of the views I allow to the table.
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I feel that Christians have not reflected deeply enough on the radical significance of the story of the “wise men.”
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It’s a time to remember, honor, and pray for persecuted Christians.
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This is a danger for people of all political stripes, from conservatives to progressives, from anarchists to conspiracy theorists.
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Both harbor simmering resentment at perceived slights and mistreatments. And both, it seems, would love to punish the other by various means.
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All the way up the ride, I wondered if I should say something. I was afraid to confront the man.
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The God who guides us along the right paths also guides us through the darkest valleys.