Why the upstarts are the winners and mainstream churches are the losers By John H. Adams and Peggy Hedden, The Layman, it is losing individual congregations by the dozens. Most of them are going to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. By the Finke-Stark definition, the PCA and the EPC could be considered “upstarts.” Contrary to Kirkpatrick’s…
Book review: Reasons for God and Gospel for skeptics paying dividends By John H. Adams, The Layman, he gets some help from a team of preachers – make that teachers – on the staff. Redeemer Presbyterian is a smashing success. What’s the secret? It’s outlined in The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of…
Calvin books vary during his 500th celebration year By Walter Taylor, The Layman, Johnson reinterprets key teachings of Reformed faith into the cardinal views of his own theological liberalism. For example, the doctrine of election becomes a call for “diversity” (p. 122), and a call to universalism (p. 48). This book was sent out to…