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Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
04 February 2026

Secular Humanism and Neuro-Nonsense

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The other day while driving I picked up an AM radio station out of Toronto and heard an interview with an expert on neurogenerosity - which ...
26 October 2025

An Picture of an Underground Sect in the Open, but on the Back-street

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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 ...
11 July 2025

Kuyper and Schilder on Eschatology and Culture

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https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/beginning-at-the-end-of-all-things/ The theology and thought of Abraham Kuyper (1837-19...
10 July 2025

Memory and The Ister

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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...
30 April 2025

A Popular but Contrived Celtic Heritage

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A Calvinist blogger (from the South) posted about wanting to understand his Celtic roots and then listed some books being read to that end.
04 February 2025

What is Good Art? Dominionist Aesthetics versus the Detachment-Discernment Ethos of New Testament Pilgrim Christianity (II)

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Rather than reduce art to the Hellenistic categories of the good, true, and beautiful our understanding needs to be both wide and nuanced.
02 September 2024

Poisoning the Minds of Children

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Various news stories continue to emerge suggesting that kids lack self-control when it comes to social media and viewing videos, especially ...
22 May 2024

Inbox: The Church as Institution vs. Sect (II)

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The non-sacral sect model views culture as something that is at best inevitably corrupt (and thus to some degree a thing indifferent), and a...
14 January 2024

Musing on The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance and Forty Years that Shook the World (II)

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All things considered, I don't disagree with Wyman's general narrative regarding the rise of the modern West and how it surpassed pr...
09 September 2023

Antithesis and Small Town Church Dynamics

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I live in a very rural area and while some small-town churches can be warm and friendly others can seem cold and unreceptive.
28 July 2023

Gothardism Under the Microscope and a Christian Parent's Response (II)

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Were the Beall's disturbed by watching their little five year old disappear into the bowels of a big institutional facility? They should...
11 September 2022

Sundry Thoughts and Reflections on the Queen's Death (II)

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It goes without saying that the death of Elizabeth II is a cultural milestone. It's unsettling for many as one of the foundational pilla...
03 April 2022

Inbox: The Glory of the Nations in Revelation 21 and the Question of Eschatological Continuity (II)

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*updated 9 April 2022 Even the Old Testament casts doubt on the continuity reading of Revelation 21. Ecclesiastes, a book that is so probl...
21 October 2021

A Broken Ecclesiology

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https://churchleaders.com/news/396413-reports-of-an-unsettling-trend-of-pastors-leaving-the-ministry.html The broken ecclesiology that dom...
04 July 2021

The Shadow State is Alive and Well

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https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881 The stage for all of this was set in the aftermath of 9...
26 June 2021

Evangelicalism and A Hidden Life (2019)

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The title of the movie is taken from George Elliot. In Middlemarch she writes: "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on ...
30 December 2020

Postscript: An Aesthetic both Transient and Transcendent

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XXII/Final) We ought to understand that technolo...
29 December 2020

Postscript: Magisterial Protestantism's Cultural Legacy and Aesthetic Schizophrenia

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XXI) This topic may seem off-base or represent a...
20 December 2020

A Final Appeal: The First Reformation Applied to the Contemporary Context (Part 2)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVIII) While our Biblicist theology is necessari...

A Final Appeal: The First Reformation Applied to the Contemporary Context (Part 1)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVII) The time is now. These essays have attem...