Proto-Protestantism

Washer refers to infant baptism as the golden calf of the Reformation. To put it bluntly, he's wrong... but there's a sense in whi...

Recently I decided to revisit Paul Washer's Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church. You can get it in pamphlet form but in this cas...

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/633980912/tsas-quiet-skies-program-tracks-observes-travelers-in-the-air Undoubtedly some will have notice...

Recently some thirty-five Christians were released from prison in Eritrea. Is this a sign of future toleration or a case of symbolic amnes...

There was resistance to the progressivist trajectory among the Medieval proponents of Sola Scriptura. While many of the groups were essent...

I have been challenged, rebuked and questioned about my recent comments with regard to the doctrine of the Trinity. The context was a critic...

One may be an Amillennialist with no expectation of chiliastic-millennial triumph in this age and yet embrace Dominionism with its insiste...

Amillennialism has always been a problematic term. It's a position defined by what it is not. It posits the millennium in apophatic term...

Isaiah 65 is a problematic passage for many and yet their struggles with it are actually rooted in fundamental misunderstandings of how pr...

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/16/618217795/teaching-children-to-ask-the-big-questions-without-religion This NPR story caught my attention ...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-ben-sasse-calls-putin-murderer-trump-meet/story?id=56612481 If you're a Conservative or Evangeli...

I've recommended Jeff Riddle's work in the past. He's a Reformed or confessionally Calvinistic Baptist pastor out of Virginia....

I am consistently amazed by people like the former New York Times reporter James Risen. After all they've experienced, after all they...

Is the problem with pictures of Christ a question of devotion? Is it because people will 'worship' the picture? And thus the quest...

Should Christ be depicted? For many this question is confused by debates over whether or not such depictions are appropriate for 'chur...

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/romanias-parliament-open-to-moldova-reunification-idea/ https://www.euractiv.com/section/...

One is reminded of the 2009 film The International wherein two low-to-mid level bureaucrats attempt to investigate and challenge the stat...

There is a vicious cycle at work in which multiple bad actors seeking to profit from and at the expense of one another and to protect them...

Listening to people complain about the state of society, government intrusion, burdensome costs and the hosts of problems surrounding insu...

Listening to Christian Financial Programmes one usually hears something to the effect that you should drive your vehicles into the ground....

It was recently announced that Erie Insurance is now the largest employer in the city of Erie Pennsylvania. If you've spent any time l...

http://samstorms.com/enjoying-god-blog/post/10-things-you-should-know-about-jehovah-s-witnesses This article is a case of a New Calvinis...

http://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/march-20-2018-show-with-douglas-wilson-joel-mcdurmon-on-how-does-the-old-covenant-civil-penal...

A couple of weeks ago I finished listening to Owen Bennett-Jones' BBC series on the Benazir Bhutto assassination. I enjoyed it and lea...

Magisterial Protestantism Comes Full Circle and the Oracular Mark of the Church What is a Christian? Is it an easy and straightforward q...

The Socio-Cultural or Pronoun Error and Christian Antithesis   Despite the stumbles and setbacks, Protestants continued in their attempt...

Nominal Christianity and the Lordship Controversy What is a Christian? How is that term to be defined? It may seem like an easy and stra...

The title refers to Amos 8.11. If you look it up, make sure you read the whole chapter. It's quite poignant and it's a reminder......

Every state contains what might be described as the Bestial Impulse, the temptation of ultimacy. We can also refer to this as the Babel Impu...

I was reading a story from a few months ago about Amazon handing over large amounts of data to law enforcement and it prompted me to wrest...

What were once subtle signals of fissures in the Atlantic alliance are becoming more pronounced. I refer here to Atlanticism, the belief t...

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/03/09/vaticaninsider/eng/world-news/bishops-of-vietnam-the-church-committed-to-education-and-society-pOpzCxYHD...

Recently I was visiting a Reformed Baptist Church and the pastor, a graduate of Liberty University continually invoked the name of Jerry F...

Hypocrisy is hardly unusual, especially in the realm of politics. And sadly we must admit it is also fairly common within the larger Churc...

In a recent article referencing history as an interpreter of current events, I said: The lessons and realities of history are on his side ...