Gary Young
2 articles
Conversation · No. 42
What does the Church have to do with Obergefell? A Response to Shafer, Stoner and Farrow.
I don’t suppose I have any disagreement with the overall observation by Jeff Shafer that Obergefell v. Hodges implies a disengagement of marital and familial formation from traditional Christian expressions of the value of the differences between the sexes. That said, I also don’t understand Obergefell to be sui generis…
by Gary Young · July 31, 2025
Writing · Political Theology Postmillennialism
The Church Builds the World
1 For most of my life, the standing of the American church as a source of national social and political order was measured by reports from the front of the so-called “culture wars.” 2 Memory brings to mind battles over feminism and the ERA, so-called gay rights, the breakdown of…
by Gary Young · September 17, 2024