Proto-Protestantism

What about the idea of being marked out as a Christian, having one's self covered with Christian themed tattoos? This is even more p...

It's a strange issue to have to discuss, all the more because it wasn't that long ago that this issue was unheard of. Tattoos were...

Christians differ over the role of law in society. Many believe that Biblical law is to be enforced, others believe Natural Law is suffici...

All that said, there is a sense in which Pentecost does have a special significance for NT believers. I think it safe to say that as New...

What is the significance of Pentecost? It was the occasion in which the Holy Spirit descended on believers signifying the new age, the seal...

But perhaps the biggest and most destructive force is not found among the corrupt and ignorant leaders of American Evangelicalism. No, the...

Beijing's 'clampdown' on Chinese Churches is making a splash in Evangelical circles and as I've long followed the state of C...

But there are other strange reversals too.... The First Amendment is now by some accounts a Right-wing issue. This strangely has an air ...

If these reversals and revisions weren't bizarre enough, the Right and especially the Christian Right have taken some rather unforeseen ...

Culturally and politically we are undergoing a series of revisions and reversals. History is being re-written and in many cases historical...

It was one of those culturally oppressive days. My wife and I were in a supermarket in a nearby town and it just seemed like everyone, eve...

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...