Proto-Protestantism

This is a subjective exercise to be sure but it is certainly in keeping with the frameworks imposed by many others on the American narrative...

Recently former Attorney General Ed Meese was interviewed on LPR's Issues Etc. and asked to comment on the death of Supreme Court Justi...

When you break with a group like the Brethren you have taken a wholly different path and it's no surprise that some who have done this e...

The antithesis requires that our children will grow up knowing that it means something to be a Christian and this affects the whole of life ...

When the antithesis is heightened, so is the risk. The Plymouth Brethren represent not only a more conscientiously separatist form of Christ...

All Christians committed to the veracity of Scripture acknowledge the reality of the demonic and yet there's a wide spectrum in how this...

In 1979 a group of Salafis overtook the Grand Mosque at Mecca. This group deliberately associated themselves with the Ikwhan movement from t...

While not a fan of Wheaton, this is one of those moments where the divide between Christians and the world becomes all too clear. The worl...

When poking around in the 19 th century the name Trieste often comes up. Today situated in the northeast corner of Italy it was the Habsbur...

While many conservative and Christian cultural commentators will speak of the dominance of postmodernism I would argue that particular cate...

I've been asked this several times. I would love to but I don't have the time to do it and in the end the means of publication would...

I've received various emails both in the past and as of late that request assistance with regard to what media sources I utilize. Where ...

The embrace of Christmas is a rejection of Scripture as the ultimate authority and arbiter of all matters concerning the faith and Kingdom. ...

Eliason 2015 and Bahnsen 1995 This is a somewhat sombre and unpleasant reflection. Read it, or not. Perhaps by the end the reader will und...

The movie industry is producing some of the most debased and worthless films ever made and yet at the same time there are a very small numbe...

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 ...