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Confessions of One Who Just Learned the Value of Confessions

The fear of wrongly dividing the word or failing to teach the whole counsel of God felt like an impossible burden that I was made to carry myself.

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Second Principle of theological Moderation: Proclivity toward unity

Often, we Protestants and Evangelicals are mocked for the divisions found among us.  The number of denominations that exist within Protestantism are an albatross around our collective neck.  Yet moderate Nonconformists of the late-seventeenth century like Philip and Matthew Henry, Edmund Calamy, and James Owen found significant unity even with important denominational differences.  This is […]

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Maintaining unity while having (significant) differences

We are living in a time of deep and profound political polarization and it has seeped into the church.  Here in our country we are experiencing some of the deepest rifts our nation has ever faced.  These rifts are evident in and, perhaps, exacerbated by social media and this new era of tweets, posts, and […]