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In a recent Twitter post, Dr. Owens-Tran wrote,

Something is wrong. I do mean deeply wrong,

with a number of self-professed reformed men.

There is a dark alchemy at work in our circles. Terrible ideas are being normed."

In response to this tweet,

Pastor Andrew Isker wrote, quote,

When you have been marinated in the post-war liberal democratic moral

consensus, the views held universally by reformed Protestants and all the rest of Christendom

do look like a dark alchemy. This is, of course, an unstated

an unstated reference to Eric Khan's post about adoption,

among other things.

But the truly dark spirit that is foreign to all of humanity until very recently is that of

universalism over and against particularity. You see this for decades among

middle-class conservative evangelicals riddled with unspoken white guilt, who will go to great lengths

and great expense to promote foreign missions in foreign adoption.

No one is saying any of those things are bad.

Of course, it is good to support the work of the church

throughout the world and to bring orphans out of dire poverty.

What is off about this is the priority for the very far away

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