"You... kid only yourselves if you think you can be an orthodox Christian and be at the same time cool enough and hip enough to cut it"

“Frankly, in a couple of years it will not matter how much urban ink you sport, how much fair trade coffee you drink, how many craft brews you can name, how much urban gibberish you spout, how many art house movies you can find that redeemer figure in, and how much money you divert from gospel preaching to social justice: maintaining biblical sexual ethics will be the equivalent in our culture of being a white supremacist.” Trueman at Ref21

Discussion

Trueman is articulate and a gifted Teacher. However, his moral authority is rather diminished when he is busy holding hands with, thus transferring trust to, the group(s) who practice the philosophy and/or theology he is criticizing.