Proto-Protestantism

Every year at this time I post the following link. I'm afraid for those of us in the Eastern United States, this year's Halloween wi...

The Stone-Campbell Movement, Biblicism, and the example of musical instruments . What does this Restorationism I propose look like? Usu...

I recently heard a Reformed podcast in which the host and guest caricatured the whole idea of returning to the first century. Look at all...

Some of this distaste for Restoration is also related to ideas of 'progress' and Primitivism (or Restoration) is by nature regressi...

You're ideas while interesting seem to lead toward some sort of Restorationism. Your ideas concerning theology and church history...

These posts have generated some offsite discussion. I've been posting some of these exchanges. This is a continuation of the discus...

Continuing this discussion, a friend and I have been interacting via email. With all argument you tend to have to keep peeling back lay...

This is kind of a strange lead-in, but my friend and I were discussing one of my favourite movies. ‘The Last Valley’ came out in 1971 and ...

The role of reason and logic in the realm of metaphysics....

** These discussions will not interest most readers. They will seem perplexing, pedantic, if not arcane and impractical. In the end wha...

A few comments regarding the ‘Dishonorable Disclosures’ film….  

Sacralist minded American Evangelicals have long hoped for some form of synthesis between Church and State. While they generally eschew ...

While Bradley Manning certainly committed treason in releasing the diplomatic cables made famous by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks website, ...

This is the final segment of this discussion on marriage the state and the related issues concerning sexuality and behaviour. It may see...

One, the final part of the Gay Marriage series is basically done. I hope to post it sometime Saturday. Thank you for the recent comments. ...

Marriage for the unbeliever is like all things....ultimately sinful. It's part of what condemns them. The little bits of relationship, l...

The Israelite Theocracy presented a multi-faceted picture of Adam (the Hebrews) in the Garden (the land of milk and honey) as well as a p...

At this point Proverbs 14.34 is usually invoked to contradict what I’ve said…. Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach ...

To answer my first question: For the unbelievers among us, what purpose does marriage serve?

There were some Christians in the 1600's...early Congregationalists who refused to perform marriages. [i] These elders said the Bibl...

I have several more articles just about ready to go, but tonight I wanted to comment on three things.

There are others who have made America into an idol and created a myth-narrative to go with it. Essentially the United States has become t...

I've received a couple of questions regarding this matter and basically I can sum up the questions in this way... Why are so many Ev...

  Since these comment threads are so long, I'm just putting them up as posts. The comment module will only take about a page at a time...

This is just an topically eclectic thread that has grown to the point that I thought I would just post it by itself and then we can cont...

Anyway, this is what I'm dealing with. It's no big deal...just consumes a lot of time and energy. One of the advantages of p...

Personal issues and a little window into my world.... To the anonymous who is praying for me and all others likewise engaged.... As ...

  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...