NOTE: This item is reposted from a 2013 original text on the WRF Blog. It is republished here due to its surprising currency. 

Last Sunday’s New York Times published, “The Gospel According to Me,” an Opinionator blog critiquing America’s spiritual quest for “the authentic self” as ultimately selfish and one that dead-ends at cynicism.

EDITOR´S NOTE:  This is a reposting of an August 19, 2014 article by the then Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Reformed Fellowship, Dr. Rick Perrin.  Ric has already been called to be with our Lord, but we are posting his article again because of the relevance in light of the currently developing situation in Ukraine.

This Advent season India instead of experiencing peace and calm finds itself engulfed in protests across the country. Terming the current state of affairs as an undeclared emergency, tens of thousands of Indians are on the streets fighting for the very survival of Indian democracy against fascism.

SPECIAL NOTE: It is rare that the WRF posts blogs about subjects on which there is strong disagreement among our members.  On occasion, we do post such blogs.

SPECIAL NOTE: It is rare that the WRF posts blogs about subjects on which there is strong disagreement among our members.  On occasion, we do post such blogs.

 In modern thought one finds two types of answers to why human life is valuable; some claim the dignity of the person is earned by some human function or ability while others claim that human dignity is a gift given in a relationship. This is functionalism versus personalism.

  Note: The Evangelical Presbyterian Church is a denominational member of the World Reformed Fellowship.  The statement below was received by the WRF on February 19, 2019, and the WRF was granted permission to post this statement on our website.  While this statement has not been officially endorsed by the WRF, it is consistent with the WRF Statement of Faith (XI, 5) and we post it here as an encouragement to our members.  The pdf version of the statement is offered in the link above.

From October 3 through 5, 2017, the World Reformed Fellowship sponsored a Consultation on Christian Civility.  The Consultation was held at Central Presbyterian Church in New York City.

As a civil rights attorney, member of the International Network Promoting the Rule of Law, and professor of police and criminal law, I have some thoughts on race relations and the violence against police. First, some facts.

In recent days, a great deal has been said, in both the secular and the Christian press, about the controversy at Wheaton College (in Illinois, USA) over the comments made by a Faculty member at Wheaton to the effect that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

Visible hatred of the world against the Jews is once more on the rise.  Seventy years after humanity vowed “Never again!”, two generations after the full horrors of the Holocaust were laid bare, it is surging.  Most of us became aware of it when Muslim terrorists struck Jewish businesses in Paris late last year, but it has been growing over recent months.

“Why are the nations in an uproar?”  The psalmist asked this question three thousand years ago. (Psalm 2:1)  At the dawn of 2016, it continues to be a most relevant thought to ponder.  Saudi Arabia and Iran glare at each other with clenched fists and burning rage across the Persian Gulf.  A few days ago Saudi Arabia, which is a Sunni Muslim nation executed a leading Shiite cleric, Nimr Baqr al-Nimr, on charges of inciting terrorism and threatening the security of the Saudi kingdom.