by Jeff Straub | Aug 8, 2017 | Vocation
In the new issue of Themelios, Don Carson offers some of the best counsel on ministerial retirement I have read. I think all ministry types ought to read this and keep it for a later date when we actually begin to ask this question. Now that I have reached my 6th...
by Jeff Straub | Jul 17, 2017 | Social Issues
Here is one last (?) word on the Eugene Peterson debacle of last week that is particularly well written.
by Jeff Straub | Jul 16, 2017 | Social Issues
I’m not sure what to make of Peterson’s view on homosexuality. He affirmed homosexuality, reversed his comments, and now his interviewer suggests that, at best, his retraction was disingenuous. This is the worst sort of spiritual confusion. Perhaps Lifeway...
by Jeff Straub | Jul 13, 2017 | Social Issues
“On further reflection and prayer,” (and perhaps great pressure from the internet), popular evangelical author Eugene Peterson retracted his hypothetical willingness to do a gay marriage. “To clarify, I affirm a biblical view of marriage: one man to one...
by Jeff Straub | Jul 13, 2017 | Social Issues
Popular evangelical author Eugene Peterson, in an interview with Jonathan Merritt of Religious News Service, stated that the issue or homosexuality and the church may be over. If he were pastoring today, he would preform same-sex unions. This has caused numerous...