Category: Doug Wilson

  • Federal Vision Sock-Puppetry

    Suppose one cannot find a person ignorant enough to be good for mockery. Some folks will go out and create an ignorant opponent, in order to suggest that this one’s typical opponent. An example of such charades is the “Anti-Federal Vision Study Bible” mock web site (link). Doug Wilson posts against this anonymous sock-puppet web…

  • Surprising Developments in the Federal Vision

    The Auburn Avenue congregation has voted to leave the PCA, and to call Wilkins (their current pastor) to continue on as their pastor. They have also voted to join Doug Wilson’s “federation” the CREC. This will presumably result in Steve Wilkins asking to be transferred out of the PCA, although he has been referred to…

  • Getting the Contrast Wrong

    In a recent post, Doug Wilson wrote:“Islamic law has its own ways of dealing with adultery. Jesus had another.” (with a photo apparently showing a Muslim woman about to be stoned for adultery, and a quotation of the pericope adulterae) The problem is, DW has drawn the wrong contrast – at least in the minds…

  • Response to Doug Wilson

    In a recent blog post (responding to Frank Turk), Doug Wilson wrote: Scott Clark is in the URC. In that tradition, when do children who were baptized in infancy generally come to the Table? They generally come when they have been catechized, which is when they are done or mostly done with high school. Then,…

  • Persecution Update

    Here’s Doug Wilson’s report (link) on the local persecution of the church in Moscow, Idaho. Incidentally, that is the kind of response one can expect to receive when one preaches loudly against sin in one’s community. Wilson may be ignorant or confused regarding the higher level aspects of theology, but his fundamental opposition to sin…

  • Doug Wilson – Clearly Upset by the PCA

    Doug Wilson, clearly upset by the PCA’s condemnation of FV, wrote (link): But Lane is correct. I was not saying that those Reformed folk who did this thing deny the truth of the Confessions, or that they have embraced heretical doctrines. I am saying that they have adopted a means of defending their Confession that…