The following articles, essays, and statements provide much needed clarity and biblical wisdom as they address current issues relating to culture, ethics, and politics

In addition to our church’s own statements, this is a list of articles and essays on current issues written by other pastors, churches, and biblical scholars. This is not a blanket endorsement of everything written or held by the authors of these resources. These articles are simply resources we have find helpful in navigating the emotionally-charged issues of our day.

Ethics and Culture

• Four Approaches to Race, Politics, and Gender. Four approaches to race, politics, and gender to help you think through the issues clearly, charitably, and carefully.
• Thinking Theologically About Racial Tensions: Life Together in the Church. 15 suggestions that serve as reminders for our polarized, politicized, and digitized world.
• A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory.
• Affirmations and Denials on Ethnic Harmony and Manhood & Womanhood written by the elders at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
• Recommended Resources on Transgender. Solid resources tackling an incredibly complicated and pressing cultural issue.
• “What the New Testament Teaches About Divorce and Remarriage“, by Andrew David Naselli, in the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal, volume 24 (2019): pp. 3–44
• Grounds for Divorce: Why I Now Believe There Are More Than Two, Wayne Grudem
• Is Physical Abuse Grounds for Divorce?, Jared Wilson

Politics

• On Elections and Voting: Notes on Staying Sane in an Election Year and The Case for Voting Third Party.
• A New Christian Authoritarianism? A 9Marks journal dedicated to Christian Nationalism, Theonomy, and Magisterial Protestantism.
• The Case AGAINST Christian Nationalism, by Michael Bird.
• Christian Nationalism, a book review by Peter Leithart. See also the articles by Kevin DeYoung and Neil Shenvi, and Brad Green.
• For a slightly different take on the Christian Nationalist debate, check out the reviews of Doug Wilson’s Mere Christendom by Scott Aniol and Brad Green.

For more helpful resources on these challenging hot-button issues, check out Mere Orthodoxy, American Reformer, Carl Trueman’s column at First Things, and Christ Over All, and Evangelicals in Civic Life.