Proto-Protestantism

What of Principled Power? We hear of many Christian leaders who argue that our society would be improved and the Church's cause aided if...

I recently finished Kevin Kruse's One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. It was a worthwhile read and I...

A local Baptist Church recently and perhaps unknowingly called a Calvinist to occupy their pulpit. He's a good man and I've enjoyed...

As I've mentioned before Mohler represents just the kind of Christian leader that I am opposed to. This does not mean that there aren...

Why write about news and discuss dark secrets of history etc...?   Why do I spend so much time writing about events in history and the ne...

  or The Travails of a Babylonian Bureaucrat Pt. 2 There are other considerations with regard to the clerk in Kentucky that are not bein...

This of course is a reference to the County Clerk in Kentucky who has chosen to refuse all marriage licenses in light of the Supreme Court d...

https://theflamingheretic.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/moravians-and-peace/ This is a sad article regarding the peace witness of the Morav...

The recent Al Jazeera verdicts in Egypt are an exclamation point on the total collapse of the Arab Spring. They represent a final expressio...

How many Christians rail against subsidies and condemn those who benefit from them and yet these same people will support them not only in t...

Recently while discussing child vaccinations with an acquaintance I tried to point out to him that these medical people whether right or w...

Certainly a valid question, and the issues are complex but we can address them in brief. The main issue the every Christian and congregat...

GPTS president J. Pipa acknowledges there is some historical precedent in the Puritan tradition which understood the Mosaic epoch as contai...

In Romans 9 Paul launches into a discussion regarding Israel and brings up the very important question regarding the fate of the Jewish peo...

Sometimes this charge is made and the implication is that to be labeled a New Testament Christian is a negative thing, it is to neglect the ...

Recently I heard what I considered to be an extreme example of the Law-Gospel hermeneutic at work. It struck me in the same way Hyper-Calvi...

John MacArthur's latest newsletter addresses the current rash of protests and the growing complaint with regard to the police. Citing Fe...

Ninth century bishop Claudius (or Claude) of Turin sought to effect reformation within the Church. Originally from Spain he had contact with...

The Cultural Mandate or sometimes the Dominion Mandate refers to the command in Genesis 1.28 to be fruitful and multiply, to subdue the ea...

Commentators are revisiting the issue of ECT or Evangelicals and Catholics Together. The original document was penned in 1994 and since it ...

As of late, listening to the media makes my head spin. I often find myself not agreeing with anyone or how anyone frames the debate. This is...

How are we called to live under  tyrannical and murderous regimes, governments that claim universal conformity and have all but deified the...

I am pleased to note a growing number of voices questioning the Evangelical revisionism regarding Dietrich Bonhoeffer and I felt compelled t...

Leithart's "Defending Constantine" instantly became popular in the realm of Christian Right academia. We live in a time that ...

Christian media circles are awash with reports of mass conversions throughout the Middle East. Muslims are experiencing dreams and visions o...

Artificial Intelligence is all the rage at the moment as the Computer Revolution prepares to take a leap into its next phase of developm...

In Epistemology we can speak of categories which help us to organize and identify both ideas and entities. These categories can be approache...

The folks at Reformed Forum are always interesting. I enjoy their articles and listening to their podcasts. One of them recently posted a b...

I recently saw a post on Facebook by a housewife that expressed her 'pride' in her husband that he was working the long hours that w...

In the mid 17 th century there were Baptists remaining in Massachusetts that had not ventured to the newly founded safe-haven of Rhode Isla...

By using the law (the threat of violence) to force people to become Christians and act in Christian manner means that instead of making dis...

Though many churches elevate Scripture as God's Word and many profess to follow Scripture Alone, the reality is far different. We are su...

For those of you who haven't heard of Hengstenberg he was a German theologian and professor who in the midst of the Higher Critical mov...

The issue of Bible translations has proven to be a very confusing one. Christians are rightly concerned for the text of Scripture and there ...

Taking on this status allows organizations to collect money and yet be exempt from many of the normal tax requirements. The monies are used ...