Marriage

Sexual Identities: Legal Issues Podcast

Jonathan Master
Sep 19, 2016
This week on Theology on the Go, our host, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Mr. Jeremy Samek. Jeremy serves as Senior Counsel with Pennsylvania Family Institute and the Independence Law Center, where he plays an integral role on the legal and legislative policy teams. Since joining the staff in May...

Sexual Identity:Homosexuality, an Ontological Impossibility

Jeffrey Stivason
Sep 4, 2016
Over the last several years, some in the church have argued that a person may be oriented toward homosexuality but not act on the inclination or tendency. That may or may not be the case. However, the burden of this article is not that. In this article, I will demonstrate that to claim that...

Sexual Identity Podcast

Jonathan Master
Aug 22, 2016
This week on Theology on the Go, our host, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Dr. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield. Dr. Butterfield is a former tenured professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse University, converted to Christ in 1999 in what she describes as a train wreck. Her memoir The...

Wisdom and Biblical Principles of Complementarianism

Nick Batzig
Jul 13, 2016
Our little corner of the internet has been ablaze over the past several months with posts and articles about the Trinity and complementarianism. A number of individuals have raised concerns about certain segments of the church allowing chauvinism ( e.g . sanctified testosterone , soap bubble...

4 Approaches to a Balanced Complementarianism

Richard D. Phillips
May 4, 2016
I have been following the concerns raised over at the Mortification of Spin with respect to imbalances in the practice and teaching of biblical complementarianism (I think particularly of some of Aimee Byrd's posts - here and here ). I have long been an admirer of CBMW (Council of Biblical Manhood...

"My Spouse is My Best Friend"

Mark Jones
Nov 2, 2015
Answering who is your best friend is a little like answering who is your favorite character in the Bible. The rules of theology (rightly) demand that we answer the latter question with the name that is above every name. And the rules of society today seem to demand that we answer the first question...

What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense

David VanDrunen
Jul 1, 2013
Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and Robert P. George, What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defens e (New York: Encounter, 2012), 168 pp., $ 15.99 This book is an expansion of a controversial article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy in 2011. Given the seemingly inexorable advance of...

Chapter 24

Jeffrey Waddington Articles
Jun 24, 2013
i. Marriage is to be between one man and one woman: neither is it lawful for any man to have more than one wife, nor for any woman to have more than one husband, at the same time. ii. Marriage was ordained for the mutual help of husband and wife, for the increase of mankind with legitimate issue,...

Some Thoughts on Gay Rights

William Edgar
Apr 15, 2013
The rise of gay rights, including, now, the all but inevitable legal support for same-sex marriage at home and abroad, has the effect of a tidal wave: better get out of the way, or be drowned in obscurity. Sure, there will be ups and downs, advances and setbacks. But things are moving fast. Two...

Some Thoughts on Gay Rights

William Edgar
Apr 15, 2013
The rise of gay rights, including, now, the all but inevitable legal support for same-sex marriage at home and abroad, has the effect of a tidal wave: better get out of the way, or be drowned in obscurity. Sure, there will be ups and downs, advances and setbacks. But things are moving fast. Two...