Proto-Protestantism

Where to go to church? What is one to do in these troubling times? There are many articles written about this topic. Some are helpful, other...

Driving home from a rather High-Church Anglican service, I reflected on the many different understandings of worship and the relationship (i...

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

I recently called an Evangelical pastor with some questions as his church website provided little in the way of substantive information.

Recently re-reading some Early Church Fathers, I was both pleased and inspired to discover this exhortation on the part of Ignatius of Antio...

As our routine has been further derailed by my son's injury, I decided on a recent rainy Sunday to revisit an Alliance (CMA) congregatio...

As we're in the process of revisiting area churches, I had occasion to attend a rural Fundamentalist congregation about forty-five minut...

But they're not the only group that has a problem with the diaconate. In Baptist circles there's also a great deal of confusion on t...

I recently had an exchange with a priest from the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). As our church situation has collapsed due to the ...

As our congregation has succumbed to Trumpism we are currently looking at other options and let's say the scene is not encouraging. Sund...

Over the years I have heard various appeals to the Book of Revelation as some kind of guide or normative template for New Testament worship....

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

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XV) The time is now. Dominionism and the reactio...

I can say without qualification that I have been grieved by the mainstream Church's response to this outbreak. As I've talked abou...

http://evangelicalfocus.com/magazine/4072/Eight_AntiChristmas_Arguments This was a rather lackluster attempt by the author but it's ...

This is both a report and perhaps a warning for churches of a certain mindset and polity. The congregation where we now assemble recently ...

I have to confess this was an argument for Christmas I had not encountered before.

This Sunday will effectively be the July 4 th Sunday, the day in which the National holiday is commemorated. In the Patriotic liturgy that ...

Memorial Day was born out of the US Civil War. All wars deal heavily in propaganda but a civil war can be the most vicious in this regard an...

This is not a comprehensive piece on Church buildings. I could easily put together a book-length piece on this but for now I'll only rai...