Posts from June 2015

Gay Marriage and the Bible: My response to the Sonoma Sun

In light of the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage in all 50 states, the church will face increasing pressure from a culture in which the majority rejects the bible’s teaching on marriage–as a union defined exclusively as covenant between one man and one woman. Last month an article was published in the Sonoma Sun in which columnist Ron Ellis wrote…

Chimps, Courts, and the Religious Nature of Being Human

Nearly 500 years ago, the Swiss Reformer Ulrich Zwingli made an insightful observation in his Commentary on True and False Religion when he wrote, “There is no difference between the life of man and that of the beasts if you take away the knowledge of God.” Zwingli observed an essential relationship between knowledge of God and being human. Zwingli’s contemporary, John Calvin…