Proto-Protestantism
Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation
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08 May 2026
A Misrepresentation of Western Art
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https://cne.news/article/4938-how-arts-draw-europe-back-to-paganism This article struck me as rather strange. In many respects I can resona...
04 September 2025
The Dalai Lama and Mongolian Intrigues
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y772jlpgzo In early July 2025, the Dalai Lama finally announced that he would have a successor, that the...
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.
01 July 2024
Reflecting on Independence Day 2024 (II)
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The original nation under the Articles of Confederation wouldn't hold together and so for many the revolution was betrayed by the creati...
13 February 2024
Atlanticism's Attempt to Curtail the Rise of Europe and a Multi-Polar World
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Atlanticism represents a historical anomaly – Europe under subjugation from an outside power. For many decades this was limited to Western E...
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...
Musing on The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance and Forty Years that Shook the World (I)
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Patrick Wyman's The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance and Forty Years that Shook the World (published in 2021 by Twelve) focuses primaril...
28 October 2023
Churchill's Christian Civilization (II)
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The Churchill Cult in the United States finds its most tangible expression in Fulton, Missouri the site of his famous speech. Though most pe...
06 November 2022
Finding Meaning in History and the Dangers of Historicism
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Following recent Christian discussions on historiography, it was inevitable that criticism directed at Historicism would eventually be put o...
07 October 2022
The Meloni Problem (I)
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God, Family, and Country – what's wrong with that? This is the response of the Christian Right to the electoral victory of Giorgia Melon...
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...
Sundry Thoughts and Reflections on the Queen's Death (I)
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The New Testament tells us to honor the king and given the Neronic context of these writings and apostolic exhortations, that imperative rem...
17 January 2022
The Complicated Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Right's Revisionism and Deceitful Appropriation of His Message
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On this Martin Luther King Jr. day we are once more reminded of the massive revisionism taking place within Right-wing circles. I've wri...
16 October 2021
Revelation 18: The Merchant Princes of Babylon, Their Sorceries, Mammon and Medicine
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Revelation 18.23 refers to the sorceries of fallen Babylon. It could be a reference to Babylon in general or more specifically to the mercha...
18 September 2021
Contemporary Iconoclasm: Cancel Culture and Statue Removal
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When the Magisterial Reformation appeared on the scene in the Sixteenth Century it was followed by many episodes of iconoclasm. Protestant m...
22 June 2021
Afghanistan and the Fall of Saigon
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In recent days while reflecting on Afghanistan and the US withdrawal, I have thought more and more of Vietnam and what happened there in 197...
27 May 2021
Biden's Victory: Despair and the Moment
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It's hard to miss. In Evangelical and Confessional circles there's a heavy despondency over the Biden presidency and the fact that T...
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...
16 August 2020
The Burning of Bibles and the Evangelical Response
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Reports have come out regarding street protestors burning Bibles. Already upset by the taking down of statues and monuments, this story ha...
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