Proto-Protestantism

 In a recent sermon, the pastor (while dealing with 2 Timothy 4) addressed the issue of fables and myths that will be introduced into the Ch...

I happened to be up in Western New York the other day and picked up Insight for Living, the radio programme of Chuck Swindoll on WDCX out of...

Modern Christians lament the sixteenth century Copernican Shift which initiated the reformulation of not just cosmology but epi...

At certain times it hits you. Someone you know dies and that someone was a lost person, and you think about their life and you ...

https://wng.org/opinions/playing-chicken-with-the-lords-day-1707873572 I read this article in frustration and then laughed when I reached ...

Confessionalists and Evangelicals, (the two dominate groups in my Judah- Southern Kingdom analogy) don’t quote their own prophets as do the ...

  Given all the overtly heretical forms of Christianity that are out there, why spend so much time criticizing conservative leaders and mini...

https://theaquilareport.com/transferring-church-membership-is-not-a-violation-of-the-presbyterian-church-in-americas-membership-vows-a-gentl...

https://www.smalltowntheologian.org/for-those-who-argue-against-creeds/ Those who reject Confessionalism are fools we're told by this ...

Atlanticism represents a historical anomaly – Europe under subjugation from an outside power. For many decades this was limited to Western E...

These discussions and debates are further confused by the influence of Neo-Calvinism (not to be confused with New Calvinism) and Theonomy wh...

https://reformedperspective.ca/on-the-proper-role-of-government-and-article-36-of-the-belgic-confession/ The Reformed Perspective/Bredenho...

  While attending a New Calvinist congregation this last Sunday, we were disappointed to discover that a woman connected to the pro-life mov...

All things considered, I don't disagree with Wyman's general narrative regarding the rise of the modern West and how it surpassed pr...

Patrick Wyman's The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance and Forty Years that Shook the World (published in 2021 by Twelve) focuses primaril...

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/12/has-hitler-won-on-the-left Carl Trueman of Grove City College laments the moral decline...

https://theaquilareport.com/what-the-jubilee-of-aquinas-says-about-rome-and-roman-protestant-relations-in-some-quarters/ I appreciated som...

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/reformed-cessationists-should-not-quote-church-history.html I have no wish to provide comfort or aid ...

The story of Monod is in some ways inspiring – in other respects he is something of a disappointment. The men of Reveil are closer to our ti...

As has so often been the case in Church history, persecution failed to defeat the faithful. They were instead defeated by peace and flourish...

The American context at this time was completely different. The new Republic had been able to successfully fuse Enlightenment ideas with Chr...

I recently finished Constance Walker's small biography on Adolphe Monod (1802-1856) which I would recommend to anyone interested in nine...

https://americanreformer.org/2023/10/providence-and-empire/ This unfortunate article was reposted at The Aquila Report and there seems to ...

When sections of the American public were forced to admit that it was American soldiers that committed the horrific massacre at My Lai in 19...

https://churchandfamilylife.com/podcasts/6540dea48035f112bf38cdf8 Modern Thanksgiving was born out of the US Civil War – In 1863, Lincoln ...

Due to the necessity of expansion and sheer avarice, Capitalism will inevitably turn to the international sphere and with that comes intrigu...

It is both sad and frustrating to me that some who are eager to take certain portions of Scripture at face value – like the commands to turn...

For some time I've occasionally listened to a podcast called Catholics Against Militarism. It's flawed – it is Roman Catholic after ...

https://g3min.org/how-valuable-is-bodily-training/ In 1 Timothy 4, Paul speaks of bodily exercise. He says it profits little, or profits a...

Some time ago I heard someone discussing the 'outsourcing' of a great deal of Evangelical thinking and it has stayed with me. It'...

On numerous occasions in conversation and from the pulpit I have heard Christians appealing to the example of Doug Wilson and his followers ...

The Churchill Cult in the United States finds its most tangible expression in Fulton, Missouri the site of his famous speech. Though most pe...

In recent days, with the Ukraine War, the coronation of Charles III, as well as some Evangelical commentaries tangentially connected to thes...

This was but another case of meeting Christian people at a church and getting one impression and then finding them on social media and disco...

Kennedy then takes a strange turn by invoking the memory of Reinhold Niebuhr who was not a Christian by any kind of New Testament measure. H...