Proto-Protestantism

https://issuesetc.org/2026/05/25/the-uniqueness-of-the-lutheran-reformation-dr-jordan-cooper-5-25-26-1452-encore/ For the most part I appre...

We must also mention the somewhat unusual structuring of Lutheran conceptions of Sola Scriptura - something a lot of people are unaware of. ...

Author Brian Godawa appeared on my radar back in the early 2000's when Christian publications called attention to his participation in t...

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

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

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

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 ...

https://www.crossway.org/articles/is-the-lords-supper-jesuss-actual-body-and-blood-1-corinthians/ On one level this article had moments in...

Common Grace is a reality, a mercy, and restraint while the Church bears witness in the world and (this is critically important) wins by los...

While the aforementioned councils of Late Antiquity were not 'ecumenical' councils – a point some make to argue their canon proclama...

https://issuesetc.org/2022/07/29/2101-christian-crusaders-raymond-ibrahim-7-29-22/ This was but another ridiculous interview I found on Is...

For the Bohemian Brethren, the contacts with the Magisterial Reformation produced mostly negative results. Swept up into the political strug...

A good resource regarding the formative years of the Moravian Church is The History of the Unity of Brethren (A Protestant Hussite Church in...

http://uwesiemon.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-wrong-side-won.html I have written before about Uwe Siemon-Nietto who is a semi-frequent guest o...

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

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XII) The First Reformation it would seem embrace...

I'm not terribly familiar with Francis Chan and I must confess that I've never been particularly motivated to look into him or his...

I was stunned to learn that some have dared to argue that Two Kingdom theology led to the Poway Shooting. In reality the exact opposite ...

Washer refers to infant baptism as the golden calf of the Reformation. To put it bluntly, he's wrong... but there's a sense in whi...

Recently I decided to revisit Paul Washer's Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church. You can get it in pamphlet form but in this cas...