Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1993

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 163NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATIONI would like to begin this report by giving credit where it is due—atthrone of the triune God. He continues to provide the National ReformAssociation with the sort of media exposure for which other organizationsspend tens of thousands of doUars:I continue to co-host the "Friday Roundtable" on WORD-FM radio inPittsburgh. Every week I am introduced as the editor of The ChristianStatesman, "the oldest continuously pubUshed Christian publication inAmerica." This is an hour of exposure during drive time on a major marketFM radio station.I also appear regularly on "His Place," Cornerstone Television's mosthighly watched TV show, which, by the way, is now broadcast oversatellite and across the nation.God has also been generous in the area of print media: Last fall Ireceived a phone call from a reporter fromthe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.He was doing a story on the Religious Right and had heard my name. Iexplained to him about the history of our movement and how we aredistinct from the Religious Right. The interview went on for almost twohours. Several weeks later, I was surprised when my wife brought homea copy of the newspaper. There was the story on the front page, upper lefthand comer, Sunday edition: the largest possible reading audience.Furthermore, the article was almost completely based on our discussion,to the point where I was quoted in the headline. The Christian Statesmangot strong billing as weU.Let me give another example of God's providence. A couple of monthsago, I got a call from a man I know who is a conespondent fat Newsweek.The magazine was doing a cover story on white males and their perceptionof persecution against themselves. He asked me if I had any comment onthis. I told him I had reservations about the racial aspect of it, but that Iwould be happy to discuss the issue of the feminist war on manhood, andfatherhood in particular, especially as a sign of rebeUion against God'screated order. We did the interview, and this received a full paragraph inthe 2.5 million-reader magazine's cover story, which mentioned TheChristian Statesman as the oldest Christian magazine in the nation.That kind of exposure is valuable, largely because it leads to othermedia. A few days after this, I got a phone call from KRLD, an all-newsradio station in Dallas. They asked for an interview. We did a fifteenminutesegment on various religion-and-society types of issues. Afterward,the producer asked me if they could keep my name on fileas a regularresource person on these types of issues.A few days later, I got a phone call from "Clark & Company," a