"Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.  He said to the woman, 'Did God actually say, "You shall not eat of any tree in the garden"?'  And the woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, "You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die."' ...

Almost two decades ago, my wife and I had a houseguest for the weekend. He was a pastor friend from our days serving together in the mainline Presbyterian Church (USA) who’d recently moved his credentials from the PC(USA) to the more evangelical Presbyterian Church in America. Our congregation had just made the same denominational transfer, so we’d invited him to fill our pulpit and speak to our congregational meeting about the culture of the PCA...

After posting Part 1 of this series, I discovered that many people associate social justice with one political debate or personal issue. Social justice is a very broad topic, and it cannot be limited to health care or immigration, for example. This conversation definitely has a connection to those things, but my intention is not to try to answer specific questions through a general discussion of a movement...