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Kicking the Can Down the Road: why the RCA cannot have unity if it disagrees on homosexuality
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWel has written an essay about the process unfolding in the RCA titled, “Moving the Goalposts and Kicking the Can”. Published in the, Reformed Journal: The Twelve, this essay is a response to what the author sees as the many errors of the conservative movement in the RCA concerning human sexuality and the denomination. […]
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The Great Mystery: How our sexuality and biblical ethics are theological
Here is a sermon I did last Sunday. It is a reflection on the arc of redemption in the Bible and how sexuality, gender identity and desire find their meaning in the Great Mystery. Hope it blesses you.
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What the Methodists reveal about the RCA and Vision 2020
This is a reflection on two denominations, the RCA and United Methodists. Both have been in turmoil over human sexuality and biblical hermeneutics. Both have conservative majorities and also tenacious, liberal minorities. Both have been on this journey for a long time. One has found a way forward; the other is struggling to do so. […]
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What happens after 2020 in the RCA? A Conservative Vision
In the late 90s and early 2000s, there was a movement called, the emergent church. Brian Mclaren was part of the same denomination I was part of at the time and he was a major force for the emergent church movement. He and others were capturing something that was happening in my generation; many of […]
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Are the RCA 2019 General Synod’s decisions unethical and (un)reformed
The 2019 general synod is over and there are two general feelings taking place across our denomination. Either, a sense of relief and hope that the denomination is moving the “right way”. Or, a sense of despair that things will fall apart for “our” side. It has gotten tense on this portion of God’s garden. […]
