Body Image: What the Church Can Learn from a Dance
by Rebekah Zuñiga Recently my church has been preparing for Vacation Bible School (VBS) with our elementary children. My husband and I are in charge of teaching the music. In Sunday School we teach the kids the words and motions to the VBS songs. This Sunday some questions occurred to me: why do VBS songs have motions? Do the kids simply think they are more fun that way? Possibly. But I began to notice that the kids learned the words...
Concrete Genders in a Gender Fluid World
On March 23rd of this year, North Carolina’s General Assembly proposed and passed HB2 (House Bill 2), or what is more informally known as the “bathroom bill.” In very plain language, the bill responds to an ordinance passed in Charlotte, N.C., which called for further public accommodation for those in the LGBT community. Specifically, this ordinance would have allowed transgender individuals to use the bathroom of the gender with...
An Introduction to the Regulative Principle
Throughout both Old and New Testaments, Scripture make clear that God cares about how we worship. It’s not something He has left to us; rather, He has given us principles to follow. From the beginning God has been interested in how we worship Him. The first Scriptural occasion in which worship is mentioned is the Cain and Abel narrative. Abel’s worship was pleasing to God, but Cain’s was not. Perhaps the most explicit Old Testament...
The Christian Publisher, Church, and Family: An Interview with Ron Hunter
For decades, Randall House Publications has served the National Association of Free Will Baptists as its publishing arm. In addition to being the main provider of curriculum to our churches, they also provide a range of resources and products designed to foster spiritual formation and discipleship. More recently, under the leadership of Executive Director and CEO Ron Hunter, they have attempted to move family ministry to the forefront...
The Ethics of Just War
In a world filled with terrorism and nuclear threats, the ethics of war and peace are as relevant as ever. For centuries, Christians have tried reconcile these two seemingly contradictory ideas, war and peace, through the Just War Theory. In this essay, we’ll see why most Christians through history have believed that free nations may use force against enemy threats. While Scripture says little about the actual means of warfare, it...
Scalia: Man of Faith (Part II of II)
In the previous article, we introduced the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, offering an overview of his life, and examining his contribution to the Court. But just as Scalia took his family, the law, and friendship seriously, he also took his faith seriously. He was a man of deep and enduring faith. As Edward Whelan puts it, it “sustained” him.[i] Or as John L. Allen Jr. remarks, his faith was “a defining element of his...
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