For those who falsely assume that in matters of sexual justice, I have been assigned a role of protecting predators, a role I continue to refuse, with decreasing politeness, this confrontation of Nassar is how it should be done.
Douglas Wilson
Steven Sitler
“a child who is defenseless”
“We can’t forget what the history is here: A diagnosed pedophile; multiple victims; probation for life; and he now has a child who is defenseless.” Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson (@52:02)
Three Years of Terror
Tonight I wish the little Sitler boy a happy birthday. Continue reading
The Seething Kid of Christ Church
A Christmas Night Reflection
“Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.”— Exodus 23:19 Continue reading
The CREC Presiding Ministers’ Report: “strongly”
What are the odds?
“Under the circumstances, we strongly question the wisdom of Christ Church leadership in supporting and solemnizing the Sitler/Travis marriage.” —CREC Review Committee Continue reading
Repost: Rape-O-Meter
Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, and the Presiding Ministers of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches care as much for these rape victims as they do Steven Sitler’s son. Continue reading
“you get more of what you subsidize, and less of what you penalize”
One of the fundamental laws of life, and therefore of business, is that you get more of what you subsidize, and less of what you penalize. In every social context, certain behaviors are rewarded (in some way), and other behaviors are not rewarded. Once the calculus of blessings and curses, rewards and disincentives, is done, you will have less of what you chastised, and more of what you blessed.
Douglas Wilson
Repost
Our ministry to Steven, in other words, has not been conducted at the expense of any children in our church community, or in a way that puts any of them at risk.
Douglas Wilson
“Beware of millstones. . .”
Acknowledge your children all need to be converted (Eph. 2:3), but do not do this with unequal weights and measures. If you apply impossible standards to your children, you are causing them to stumble. Beware of millstones as you bring them to Christ (Matt. 18:6).
Douglas Wilson
The CREC Presiding Ministers’ Report & the Kansas City Shuffle
Gonna need some more millstones. Continue reading
“and shall His people withhold an amen?”
Shall the Lord Jesus promise to take a millstone and tie it around the necks of the photographers and graphic designers for National Geographic, and throw the lot of them into the sea (Matt. 18:6), and shall His people withhold an amen? The secular state hates childhood. How many children have you dismembered so far? When you are willing to cut off their heads in the womb, and to sell off their parts, then it would seem that cutting off their genitals for the sake of your ideological kinks would be child’s play. Do we hate you? How could we not? Do we love you? We are offering you the death of Jesus Christ, which makes it possible for you and your vile condition to be separated. Do we love you? Of course we love you? Here is Jesus Christ — come to Him. Come now, before the night falls. It won’t be the kind of night that you can dance away.
Douglas Wilson
Of Slopes & Keys
And Child Molesters
“All the varied expressions of transgressive sexuality currently being celebrated in our culture, and now by the highest court in the land, are out of accord with God’s creational design for human sexuality, and are therefore sinful in the eyes of God. Whenever men set themselves up arrogantly to challenge God’s holy standards for sexuality, seeking to teach contrary to what God has taught us in His Word, they are vainly attempting something that is not within their authority to accomplish. We cannot bestow dignity where God has withheld it, and we cannot join together what God has determined shall remain forever separated.” —Douglas Wilson
“we do not want a millstone tied around our stiff necks. . . We do not want to be thrown into the depth of the sea.”
The commandment to honor parents is the first one with a generational promise, and which the apostle Paul points to (Eph. 6:2–3). But it is not the first commandment with a generational rider. The Second Word says this — that those who bow down to images are guilty of “iniquity,” and that their hatred of God will be visited to three and four generations (Ex. 20:5). In our worship of the Lord, we delight to include our children together with us in our worship, and this includes bringing them to the Table. But it is not enough to just include your children. What are you including them in? We do not bring them into a worship service with graven or painted images in it because we do not want a millstone tied around our stiff necks (Matt. 18:6). We do not want to be thrown into the depth of the sea. We want to present ourselves to the Lord at the last day, together with the children He has given us.
Douglas Wilson