Proto-Protestantism

  It's been a frustrating week. I've been going to work quite early, in part to deal with the heat and often getting home late. I...

This is an update/revision of an article originally published in July 2010 For years I grappled internally and with others over theologi...

From the standpoint of non-Sacral Christianity, a composite society is highly desirable and allows for maximum freedom. In the end tha...

Did the Founders belong to a time when a Sacral Christian consensus still reigned? Of course. And yet, they were of many different stripes...

A friend recently sent an email referencing Brian Armstrong’s “ Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy: Protestant Scholasticism and Humanism in S...

In addition to questions concerning 'rights' and the 'state' and how these concepts are read (by many Christians) back int...

The following links are to older posts which have been recently revised and updated. Some will be of interest to newer readers. Two Kingdo...

Cameron brings along Marshall Foster to help him interpret the monument's symbolism. Foster is a popular 'historian' in these ...

Dominionism is the idea that says we must seek to transform society and culture. Among the myriad of Christian sects almost everyone woul...

Some recently updated posts from 2010: Two Kingdom Theology On Guard Greeks, Turks, and Two Kingdoms Common Grace Culture

 Some musings about the continued fallout.... I heard a commentator today mention that this decision coupled with an Obama re-election w...

A few thoughts regarding the Supreme Court decision today....what it means for the American Church and what the present social polarizatio...

28 June 1914 (updated) First published in 2010

A Sociopath believes the rules don't apply to him. He is above the standards that other people have to follow. A sociopath is blind ...

This post dates from November 2010, but I thought it would be a good time to repost it. There are many new readers to the site and I wan...

Actually the death toll from American foreign policy is pretty staggering. We condemn others for aggression, when in fact there has been n...

Some will take this the wrong way, but I want to make a few observations regarding one of the top headlines from the past twelve months. ...

In some recent comments it was mentioned that a PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) pastor recently converted to Roman Catholicism. The P...

  Once again I wish to extend my apologies to the readers of this weblog. Normally I'm able to produce material at a pretty steady ...

The last couple of weeks have been too busy. I haven't had any time at all to work on 'blog' matters. God willing I'll be re...

As I looked through the literature I realized he was a member of a local congregation I was well aware of. Faith Baptist Church is part of ...

When the 'licentiate' is 'ordained' we'll stay away. I don't recognize the authority of the presbytery. It, like al...

So why in the world would we once again attend a PCA? Good question. We're not going to become 'members' though we did once bef...

But here in America the lessons are not learned. The man on the bench still thinks Islamic Terrorism is the primary threat. He doesn't ...

The 'pastor' who is really a 'licentiate' is to be ordained shortly. They made it clear the 'service' is under the ...

Problems Ahead We're going to have problems. Right now this is just a church plant. They haven't granted it 'formal' con...

What is a Church? We're surrounded by buildings with steeples that claim to be Churches or to house them. It always astonishes me ho...

The Membership Debacle Many Churches practice 'membership' wherein they wish for local congregants to bind themselves to the cong...

A quick summary of the Presbyterian landscape For those unfamiliar with American Presbyterianism, the Presbyterian Church split as most b...

From the standpoint of other people across the world, the American Empire has three main arms. It has a military arm (symbolized by the Pen...

Someone emailed me this link and asked for my response. http://web.archive.org/web/20001016110209/www.alliancenet.org/pub/mr/mr94/1994.05....

The Common Citizen An Agent of Empire Today with technology and globalization the 'frontiers' are often on the other side of th...

Iran is the hub of the Shiite world and represents the foundation, center, and caretaker role of Greater Persian culture. Shiite Palestini...

Innocent Motives and Unintended Consequences. For the Church this tendency toward willful blindness in the name of Patriotism is most da...

  I don’t mean to dive into the whole Health Care debacle quite yet, but when I look at the political theatre taking place at the moment ...