Editor’s Note: On June 1, 2026 Dr. Robert Letham and Dr. Lane Tipton published essays interacting with Dr. David Garner’s view of the Son’s adoption. What follows is Dr. Garner’s response to those essays. Here begins Dr. David Garner’s response. Conciliar Christology delivers clear summaries of cor
Devotion is a word we hear often. We hear it in love songs and in references to early morning times with the Lord. To be devoted is to be loyal and dedicated to some cause or to a person. Stories of devotion abound in our world. In The Return of the King, Samwise Gamgee sees the […]
What is “experiential” Christianity? Today, this phrase is often confused with emotionalism, mysticism, or frenzied excitement, something like sentimentality detached from the intellect or the Scriptures. Many of us are used to the extremes of the charismatic movement, so any
Editor’s Note: This post contains two essays, the first by Dr. Robert Letham and the second by Dr. Lane G. Tipton. Because these essays interact with David B. Garner’s view concerning the Son’s adoption as set forth in his book Sons in the Son, Ref21 has invited Dr. Garner to respond in these pages
What if I’m dying while in seminary? Should we still go, or should we return home? That was the question my wife and I were asking ourselves in July 2021, when I was accidentally stabbed with a used drug needle in downtown Minneapolis. My wife Brooke and I had recently moved to Minnesota for seminar
There is a certain irony in asking whether the evangelical experiment has come to an end at precisely the moment when evangelicalism appears, at least superficially, to be everywhere. Its language permeates Christian discourse; its institutions dominate the Protestant landscape; its instincts shape
Kinism has recently impacted the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), and we are not alone. Subtle and not-so-subtle forms of this evil are finding expression in Reformed and evangelical churches. We must be aware of it and not tolerate it. What is Kinism? According to Drew Poplin’
In 1831, Charles Darwin began his 5-year expedition aboard the Beagle. While in the Galapagos Islands, he noticed the slight variations between species of finches on different islands. He concluded that these finches must have descended from a common ancestor and changed over time to survive in thei
“Who can change the sinner’s heart?” Imagine if Jesus told the parable of the sower as if he were a church health guru: The seed is the word of God. Those ones that fell along the path, snatched up by the birds? They heard the word, but your preaching wasn’t enthralling enough, and so the […]
Rosaria Butterfield, Ph.D., and Jared Moore, Ph.D. Annihilationism–an ancient heresy denying hell as a place of eternal conscious torment–has recently been exhumed by former child actor Kirk Cameron as legit. This essay explores annihilationism as gay celibate theology 2.0, and lest we think reforme
