Proto-Protestantism

https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/18/why-christians-should-build-cathedrals/ Nathanael Blake, the author of this piece was recently on LPR...

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-I-C-Herendeen/dp/B0FJZ4ZFY7 I am pleased to endorse this 2025 work authored by my son, Isaac. It would se...

https://pilgrimunderground.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-troubling-revival-of-historic-anti.html As I have recently indicated, the hijacking of th...

What are the options? To be frank, there aren't many. We can look to the Confessionalist churches within the Reformed, Lutheran, and Ang...

Evangelicals have frequently looked askance at Roman Catholic scholastic theology and its long tradition of philosophical syncretism - and w...

Medieval Romanism formulated its notions of law and justice in terms of a fusion between old Roman jurisprudence and the tribal codes and cu...

or, An Examination of the Twin Sisters of Medieval Roman Catholicism and American Evangelicalism Evangelicalism has moved much closer to R...

https://christoverall.com/article/concise/which-way-christian-a-contrast-of-david-platts-radical-and-michael-hortons-ordinary/ Chad Lawrenc...

I found myself frustrated listening to a couple of Missouri-Synod pastors discussing what they called The American Interim - an attempt to d...

There are few books out there that I would fully endorse, but Joshua Immanuel's 2024 work - My Kingdom is Not of This World is one of th...

In an oft quoted 1798 letter to the Massachusetts Militia, John Adams stated: “ Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious pe...

Much has been written and said about the selection of Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Indeed her election makes the apo...

In April of 2025, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage died. Given that his was not a household name his death didn't recei...

Earlier this summer I was in a large city and honed in on an Uzbek restaurant. There were others in town but this one caught my eye because ...

John MacArthur died three months ago (July 2025) and the buzz concerning him and his ministry have waned. This is especially true in light o...

Christian Nationalism is nothing new but it has been re-cast and reinvigorated in recent years. Preferential Pluralism once dominated the Ev...

Recently Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly al-Julani) met with David Petraeus at the UN General Assembly. It was a unique moment that quite a few ne...

The Myth of American Idealism (published in October 2024) will undoubtedly be Noam Chomsky's final work - and it was accomplished with ...

It's hardly surprising to watch the Right turn Kirk into a martyr. It's also obvious the White House is hoping to gain traction from...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y772jlpgzo In early July 2025, the Dalai Lama finally announced that he would have a successor, that the...

A friend recently wrote to me asking if I had heard about the death of James Dobson. I told him I heard it break over the news while I was a...

I have often talked about the Materialist assumption at work in our culture. It is just assumed that everything that exists has some kind of...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/21/hegseth-starts-evangelical-prayer-services-pentagon-his-tennessee-church-pastor.html The Conf...

There is a great deal of confusion out there. This hardly needs to be said but I was reminded again of it on a recent Sunday when talking to...

https://www.politico.eu/article/abdullah-ocalan-pkk-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-kurdistan/ https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Turkey-celebrate...

Should I dispense with bank accounts? I wouldn't mind doing so but it's increasingly becoming impossible. I tried at one point years...

To me the issue is not about specifically paying usury or even enabling those who sin by taking it from me. I don't expect otherwise fro...

...Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jTld1nmkq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVz4okhdRU Several weeks ago I caught Jordan Cooper's vide...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/beginning-at-the-end-of-all-things/ The theology and thought of Abraham Kuyper (1837-19...

From time to time I will watch (usually in segments) the 2004 film The Ister , which is a three-hour fascinating re-telling and interpreta...

So if the Rich Young Ruler had (in faith) obeyed the commands of God, his works would mean something. This does not suggest he could earn hi...

Not long ago I listened to a sermon on the Rich Young Ruler in Matthew 19 and I was struck by the difficulty the preacher seemed to have in ...

Attending church this Sunday, I was struck once again by the different approaches and understandings as to what we're doing there, who a...

We are then subjected to ridiculous ad for 'Christian Coffee' whatever that is. To be frank, I'd rather give my money to Starbuc...