Aquila Report Weekly Review

Discussions include reports from church assemblies, challenges on LGBTQ+ issues, theological views on apostasy, shifts in Mainline Protestantism, and reflections on the 51st PCA GA meeting addressing important issues like judicial trials, ordination titles, and controversies surrounding 'Jesus Calling.'

An Open Letter to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC) Courage in the PCA RE Steve Dowling Elected Moderator of the 51st PCA General Assembly Covenant Presbytery Apologizes, Bringing Closure to Jonesboro 7 Ordeal Was Jesus in the Grave for Three Days? Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up Why Teachers are Fleeing Public Schools Are Israel and the Church Two Distinct Peoples of God? Intinction As for Those Rich in Books in this Present Age

A Sidelight on a Recent Controversy in the Presbyterian Church in America: The Church’s Independence Asserted Update on Overtures to the 51st General Assembly The Methodist Surrender Apple’s ‘Crushing’ of the Good and Beautiful Is Step One in Demanding Our Compliance Honorable Conduct in the “Negative World” And So It Begins. What Was Predicted on Assisted Dying Has Come to Pass What Should We Think about Paedocommunion? American Missionaries Killed by Haitian Gangs Evangelical Worship and Chronological Snobbery Leading Together: Elder Teaming Together to Shepherd the Flock

The Most Significant Edit to the Declaration of Independence How Pop Nietzscheanism Masquerades as Christianity This, Too, Could Pass: Christian Group’s Rule Keeping Beaches Closed on Sunday Mornings May End Introducing the Bible Answers Project The NFL’s Condemnation of Harrison Butker Exemplifies the Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry Book Review: The (Not-so-Secret) Secret to Reaching the Next Generation Respond to Conflict Like Francis Schaeffer Harrison Butker Is Right Why We Need Critical Theory Do Not Be Conformed to the World of Sports: Relearning How We Think about, Feel, and do Sports as Christians (Part 2)

Presbyterian Church In America Invites Professional Polarizer David French To Lecture Christians On Getting Along What The Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About Culturally Respectable Racism Well, that Didn’t Take Long Stonewall Jackson: Saved by Providence A Review: ‘A Christian Guide to Mental Illness’ by David Murray and Tom Karel Jr Paedo-Baptism, Yes; Paedo-Communion, No. Providence Christian College Board Calls Dr. Steven B. Kortenhoeven As President Will the End of Protestantism be the End of America? Overture 26 to Assist the Accused To Be Considered By the 51st PCA General Assembly

America’s Campus Meltdown The Church Should Mind Its Spiritual Business The Evolution of Protestant Politics Learning from The Exvangelicals Do Not Deprive One Another Something Must Be Done Syndrome The Futureproof Leader Entertainment and the Death of a Culture How Plain-Spoken Courage Can Move the Overton Window Saying It Out Loud

Postmillennialism: A Reply to Doug Wilson The Gateway Drug To Post-Christian Paganism Lessons Learned from a Wolf Attack Against Brokenness Theology Dystopia Check-In About That One Barth Quote The Real Function of Third Way Rhetoric Salvation Out, Self-Help In Book Review: ‘Two Cities, Two Loves Christian: Responsibility in a Crumbling Culture’ Wholesome Protestant Doctrine

Carl Trueman on Trump vs Biden Reasons to Oppose Background Checks in the PCA A Brief Review: “The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story” The Dangerous Logic of Hate Crimes About “Close” Confessional Communion We Need to Support the PCA’s Agencies 10 Lesser-Known References to Jesus in the Old Testament As Christianity Declines, We Must Confront the Threat of Pagan America A Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of Offense: A Response to President Trump’s New Pro-Choice, State’s Rights Position on Abortion As a Bloke, I Had a ‘Barbie’ Moment Reading This Book on Masculinity

Jesus Calling: The PCA’s Yuck Factor Complementarian Confessional Conflagration A Review of Kevin DeYoung’s ‘Impossible Christianity’ Why Modern Prophecy Is False and God’s Word Is Inerrant and Sufficient: A Response to Sam Storms When “Helping” Kids Hurts Them Do Nine Out of Ten Churched Students Actually Drop out of Church after High School? Institutional Triage Assisted Suicide and the Happiness Imperative Orthodoxy Is Not Optional Song Lyrics Getting Simpler, More Repetitive, Angry and Self-Obsessed—Study

Cru Employees Fired What the EPC Can Learn from the PCA A New and Rising Liberalism When Evil Is Unmasked 8 Characteristics Incompatible with Christian Contentment Therapeutic Antinomianism What’s Driving “Deconstruction”? “Save Alive Nothing That Breathes”: How Should We Understand Divine Commands to Destroy? A Response to Paul Copan Raising Neurotic Wrecks Jackals in the Ruins