Concerned About the Record

It concerns me deeply that a significant number of the members of my congregation are discontinuing their subscriptions to the Record. Many are rightly concerned with what passes for theology in the pages of a magazine that most of us believe ought to be upholding the Reformed teachings and standards of our denomination.

Dr. McLelland’s theological/philosophical discourses which appear to place the Christian faith as one of many belief systems that orbit inside some overarching sphere of greater truth, is disconcerting, to say the least. Zander Dunn’s universalism, given that he is an ordained minister within the PCC, is also troubling.

I may be wrong, but the Record appears to be endorsing and even promoting positions on human sexuality that are incongruent with our denomination’s statements regarding the same.

These are just several of the ways we perceive our denominational publication to be straying from God’s truth and from credible Christian witness in the world. I will continue to read the Record in hopes of better things, and in appreciation of contributors such as David Webber, Calvin Brown, John Vissers and others.

About Rev. Doug Swanson, Salmon Arm, BC