Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Church and the Culture Wars

The Church Catholic -- including its principal branches, the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, and others -- is in a fight for its life, meaning it is in a struggle to the finish. This is a struggle that has been going on since before its founding. It was evidenced in the temptations offered to Jesus, in the fight between the early Church and the various heresies that threatened to engulf it, in the temporal entanglements of the Church after it became a State religion, and in the battles following the splits in 1054 and in the sixteenth century.

I am interested in all these historical facets of the struggle. But I am particularly interested in how the struggle is taking shape today, in the form popularly referred to as "the culture wars." At issue is whether or not the Church can keep her eye on her main raison d'être: to reflect the revealed truth of the Word of God. This revealed truth is eternal and unchanging. Mankind's perception and reception of it, however, is fallible, and the Church is not exempted from such fallibility.

On this page are collected the various posts in which I offer my own modest contributions to this tremendously important topic.


The Ghost of Bishop Pike

On "the Faith Once Delivered to the Saints"

We Have a Problem . . .

Dr. Williams, Sharia Law, and GAFCON

The Most Important Teaching of Lambeth Thus Far

The Teaching Continues

On the Gulf that Divides Us

Feudal Morality? Or Blind Perversity?

On the Gulf that Separates Us

In the Land of the Canon-Eaters

Bart Ehrman, Meet Frank Tipler

The Church of Enablers

The Unvarnished Truth

A Classic Restated: "Christianity and Liberalism"

Representing Jesus at GC 2009

Jesus' Warning to Those Perpetuating False Teaching

Start Them Early: Religion for Kids

The Future Before Your Eyes
Fuzzy Logic and the Church We Know (I)

The New Colonialism: Ganging up on Nigeria

The 2009 Church Follies (I)

The 2009 Church Follies (II): How to Feel Good Spending $1,300,000 per Day

Episcopal Church "Rescue" Announced

Fuzzy Logic and the Left

A Tale of Three Hyperlinks

Playing Back the Resurrection

The Oxymoron of Church Politics

From the Outside in, or Vice Versa?

How to Be Irrelevant - Just Watch

A House Divided Against Itself

The Dog in the Manger

The 2009 Church Follies (III): Veni, sancte spiritus

Hollywood Goes Episcopal: Over to You, Greg!

Ten Theses contra General Convention

Night and Day

Gordon Brown at TED: Political Heresy Equal to +Schori's

Presiding Bishop Defies General Convention

A Modest Proposal for Going Forward

Culture Wars: Dispatches from Behind the Lines

Dispatches from Behind the Lines (Continued)

Does the Truth Change with Time?























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