Proto-Protestantism

Just astonishing. After years of defending the Bush administration, its wars, its renditions and tortures, suddenly we have Evangelical le...

Here's an exchange I had with a cyber-friend. Though brief, I thought we touched on some interesting topics and wanted to share the conv...

No surprise, but the United States is once again employing Death Squads to do its work . This time instead of Central America and Vietnam, i...

Periodically, I receive questions via email and sometimes they are of a nature beneficial to the general audience. So I'm starting an on...

Part six of my four part series..... We have a joke around our house. When I call home during the day and ask if we received any phone cal...

I often disagree with him, but here's a worthwhile article from PC Roberts. A sober and I'm sad to say, accurate assessment. It...

or Christian Life and the Kingdom Part 5 of my 4 part series (?) on Advancing the Kingdom. Thus far I've been critical of what I d...

As a follow up to some of the comments I made in the last post…. I would also point out the problems Dispensationalism and Postmillenni...

I ended the last piece with this question. So why do I find it particularly strange this radio preacher was teaching about the Cultural M...

 Now, these have been general outlines of the two extremes. There's actually another camp which represents probably a much larger number...

A war worth fighting. Within Reformed circles there's an intense debate between the Two Kingdom Theology position which I advocate her...

I had planned to have a post ready for today, but I've been a bit overwhelmed lately and didn't get it done. Yes, it's related t...

Transformationalism seemingly stands at the opposite end of the Christ and Culture debate, and in some sense it is, but it's built on th...

What is Pietism? This term is a bit complicated and can mean a lot of different things. Of course those who self-identify as Pietists will n...

At the end of the last piece I asked if Christianity was in decline... This is an excellent by article by a professor at Grove City Colleg...

Reflections on how we as Christians should think about the events leading to and subsequent to The Second World War. I meant to publish t...

Part 4 Apostate Christianity is the great enemy, the great curse upon the Church today. We are surrounded by multitudes of 'churches,...

Corporate v. Individual Conduct or What we do as the Church vs. What we do as individual Christians Here's one of those laugh/cry stor...

The Early Church response was different, because it did not have a Sacralistic view of the Kingdom. and Sacralism affects theologically li...

Many similarities in different forms...how the Roman world was very much like our own, and how the Church responded. The similarities betw...

Today is the anniversary of both the destruction of Pompeii in AD79 and the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572.

In the centuries right around the time of Christ's birth, what was the status of marriage in the Roman Empire? Rome, like all civilizati...

Part of what we've been doing here is examining theological and cultural presuppositions which have led to a what I call a dumbing down ...

Who's hiding what and why? More on Wikileaks. Great questions....one's not being asked by our statist media. What are Christian cons...

Recently, I had an occasion to interact with someone who was clearly not understanding the dynamic/dialectic of Scripture. As I mentioned in...

In the end, the Five Points express truth but are a wholly insufficient and lopsided expression of it. I've always marveled at Calvinism...

Recently I was on another website and responded to an article concerning Unconditional Election and Irresistible Grace. Some of you will rec...

Though no fan of Darby's theology, he wrote an excellent little paper concerning the Waldensians or as they were often called The Vaudoi...

A few reflections concerning the Reformation. Historians have long debated the reasons for the success of Martin Luther, Zwingli, and the ot...

I had planned to write a post concerning the 'Ground Zero' mosque controversy, but was pleased to discover someone else had already ...

For those unfamiliar, a quick discussion on law, what the Evangelicals do with it, and the most important part...why? As brilliant as the...

Here's a story from the AsiaTimes regarding Vietnam. It's ironic, but now they are actually looking to establishing stronger economi...

A link to the latest Margolis article . A frank discussion of America's plan for Iraq.

The recent post.... What type of theology leads the church to support something like Nazi Germany, is largely a recapitulation of ideas alre...

A follow-up on the Afghanistan article focusing on three issues. 1. The NGO workers 2. The Afghan girl on the cover of Time 3. A few mor...