Tag Archives: Robert A. J. Gagnon

How May & Should Christians Speak About Evil

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

On July 23, 2020, conservative University of North Carolina professor, Townhall writer, and Christian, Mike Adams, was driven to suicide by the vile and relentless bullying of devotees of diversity and teachers of tolerance who fancy themselves “progressive.” They were aided and abetted by spineless Christians who failed to come alongside a brother in Christ because of his “sins” of violating leftist language rules.

Posted in Education, Faith | Tagged Andrew Klavan, Aristotle, C.S. Lewis, Christ, Christians, Church teaching, Critical Race Theory, David French, Doug Wilson, education, Edward Feser, evil, Jesse Jackson, Jonathan Swift, Leftists, LGBTQ, Mike Adams, North Carolina, Peter Kreeft, politics, President Trump, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Roy Cooper, sexuality, suicide, the Bible, “Lana” Wachowski | Comments Off

Dr. Robert A.J. Gagnon: Is “LGBTQ” Pressure Beginning to Crack the Evangelical House?

Posted on April 3, 2020 by David E Smith

Our season of sheltering-in-place provides the ideal opportunity to prepare for the next season when we will re-engage in the public square. One of our responsibilities as Christians is to help foster an environment in which truth prevails and families flourish. Just before our home-sheltering began, Illinois Family Institute hosted our annual Worldview Conference, this year titled “Thinking Biblically About Our Corrosive Culture,” with speakers Dr. Michael Brown, theologian, author, and radio host; and Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, theologian, author, and professor at Houston Baptist University.

In his first presentation, Dr. Gagnon exposed the myriad ways that …

Posted in Faith, Sexuality | Tagged J. D. Greear, Michael Brown, Preston Sprinkle, Robert A. J. Gagnon | Comments Off

Christians Caving to “Trans”-Cultists’ Language Rules

Posted on November 26, 2019 by David E Smith

While theologians Dr. Denny Burk, Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, Dr. John Piper, and Pastor Douglas Wilson say Christians should not use incorrect pronouns when referring to people who pretend to be the sex they aren’t, increasing numbers of purportedly theologically orthodox Christians believe Christians should use them. They believe that refusing to use “preferred pronouns” will result in “trans”-identifying persons severing relationships. And to “woke” theologians and pastors, maintaining relationships supersedes truth.

Christian capitulation to sin will always be accompanied by theological rationalizations that will sound superficially reasonable. In a recent episode of his “Ask Me Anything” podcast, JD …

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Andrew T. Walker, C.S. Lewis, Chelsea Manning, David French, Denny Burk, Douglas Wilson, gender pronouns, God and the Transgender Debate, Gregory Coles, JD Greear, John Piper, Mark Yarhouse, N.T. Wright, Paul E. Garland, Preston Sprinkle, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Southern Baptist Convention, The Screwtape Letters, Thomas Schreiner | Comments Off

Evangelical Leaders’ Devilish Deal

Posted on December 14, 2018 by David E Smith

In stunning semi-secretive decisions motivated by fear of religious persecution, the boards of two major evangelical organizations, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), have voted to pass motions that represent an unacceptable compromise with homosexuals and the science-denying “trans” cult. These two influential organizations passed motions that would ask the government to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes in federal anti-discrimination law in exchange for religious liberty protections that many people know would merely be stepping stones yanked out from under people of faith eventually.

According to World …

Posted in Religious Liberty, Sexuality | Tagged Al Mohler, Anthony Esolen, Charles Chaput, Christian Council of Colleges and Universities, Christianity Today, D.A. Carson, Eric Metaxas, Fairness for All, Franklin Graham, Harry R. Jackson Jr., Houghton College, James Kushiner, Jim Daly, John MacArthur, John Stonestreet, Kevin DeYoung, National Association of Evangelicals, Peter Vlaming, Preserve Freedom, Reject Coercion, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Robert P. George, Rosaria Butterfield, Ryan T. Anderson, Shirley Mullen, SOGI, Timothy George, Tony Evans, World Magazine | Comments Off

Homosexuality in the Catholic Church

Posted on August 27, 2018 by David E Smith

~UPDATED on 8/28/2018 at 10:00 a.m.~

Warning: not for younger readers

As the Catholic Church is rocked by yet another sex scandal involving priests who abuse children and teens, the bizarre claim that these scandals have nothing to do with homosexuality continues to spread, primarily by those most personally invested in white-washing the pederastic deviance intrinsic to homosexuality.

The most recent scandal emerges from six dioceses in Pennsylvania where an investigation brought to light that over the past 75 years, 300 predatory priests sexually abused over 1,000 children and teens, the vast majority of whom were male.

Some of the …

Posted in Faith, Sexuality | Tagged Blaise Cupich, Carlo Maria Viganò, Catholic Church, Donald Cozzens, Donald Wuerl, Fallen Order, Janet E. Smith, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Jose de Calasanz, Karen Liebreich, Luigi Capozzi, Melchiorre Alacchi, Paul Shaughnessy, Peter Damian, Pope Benedict, Pope Francis, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Stefano Cherubini, Theodore McCarrick | Comments Off

Evangelical Covenant Church Pastor Embraces Heresy

Posted on December 8, 2016 by David E Smith

Three years ago, sensing that his pastor at an Evangelical Covenant Church in a Chicago suburb was moving away from theological orthodoxy on homoerotic activity, same-sex relationships, and marriage, a regular attendee initiated a conversation with his pastor that this past April culminated in the pastor’s troubling—though not surprising—admission that he no longer affirms either biblical orthodoxy or the Covenant Church’s position on these critical issues.

Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Doug Wilson, Evangelical Covenant Church, Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom, Robert A. J. Gagnon, Same-sex marriage | Comments Off