Proto-Protestantism

With regard to state mandates directed at churches, I completely support the rejection of state authority. The state has no business in th...

https://www.reformation21.org/blog/join-or-die The introduction to this article is not unsound. We must be part of a congregation but th...

As you pursue communicant membership, rest assured that he who has begun a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus ...

This brief statement on membership caught my eye while perusing New Horizons , the OPC monthly that I continue to follow even though I dep...

Returning to the conservative Mennonites, the legalism of the Amish seems to be diluted (though still present) and largely replaced with a...

Some factions such as those associated with the founding of Sattler College have openly embraced mainstream life with its technology and e...

In some post-war Mennonite circles apolitical nonresistance was transformed into tacit uncritical endorsement of the world system. The war...

In December 2019 I was visiting the Mennonite website for The Sword and Trumpet and was rather stunned to find that their Spring 2020 col...

As we are in high-patriotic season when it comes to the American liturgical calendar I thought it apropos to recall this speaker I heard b...

Section five is a celebration of Social Calvinism's greatest innovation and perhaps one of its greatest sins – the fictitious and wick...

https://world.wng.org/content/social_calvinism I first came across World Magazine in the 1990's after I returned to the United State...

The Stab in the Back and the Communist Plots There are conspiracies to be sure. I've already mentioned some of them. The US strategy...

The Race for Berlin The final days and aftermath of the European theatre of World War II is a topic that still generates some controvers...

Some forms of libertarianism posit a near anarchic view of society in which government is minimal and many of the functions and services c...

This is largely a summary of the previous piece found here: https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2020/04/inbox-elaboration-of-biblic...

From the anti-sacralist Two Kingdom standpoint of New Testament Christianity, the aforementioned thin line between Church and State is in ...

https://www.rferl.org/a/inside-moscows-new-military-megachurch/30580784.html I happened to turn to the website affiliated with Radio CIA...

The truth is there has been a profound shift within Evangelical culture. In the 1970's there was still enough of the old Fundamentalis...

https://www.breakpoint.org/women-at-work/ It's no wonder people are confused. What we have here is a feminist argument to counter mo...

This is the End. There will be no other era of history after this but a new creation. The prophets announce these shifts in epoch, they po...

Hebrews 1.1-2 teaches us that the time of the prophets has ended with the advent of the Last Days – this provisional epoch which is relate...

While complete objectivity is impossible, oppositional journalism expresses a certain degree of cynicism with regard to power, and thus in...

The Gospel of Scripture vs. Today's Gospel The gospel message is simple enough. But to present it in a few paragraphs? Well, that...

While all of this is certainly concerning I was far more troubled when I watched the protest videos closely and spent some time examining ...

These protests express militancy and an insurrectionist character. Not everyone is carrying a gun to be sure but there are large numbers o...

Over the past week or so there has been a rash of protests, groups of people congregating outside government buildings and in violation of...

A third consideration which while hinted at above, requires further elaboration, this is the relationship between Authoritative Sufficienc...

Second, we must also wrestle with some basic questions surrounding the relationship between Biblicism and hermeneutics : There will be c...

What is meant by Biblicism? Like so many terms this can be confusing because people mean different things by it and define it in different...

The analogies provided by Mohler fail on so many levels. Even the Leviticus example refers to individuals contracting diseases. There'...

https://albertmohler.com/2020/03/26/obedience-to-god-and-love-of-neighbor-in-the-face-of-a-coronavirus-a-christians-mandate Albert Mohle...

(updated August 2024)  https://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/hungarys-secret-weapon-catholic-nobility It's a seemingly innocuous arti...

I can say without qualification that I have been grieved by the mainstream Church's response to this outbreak. As I've talked abou...

There has been resistance in some quarters to the proposed stimulus plan which will send out checks to the American public. In many ways i...

updated 27 Mar 2020 As I continue to watch the developments and fallout from the Coronavirus episode I am coming to believe this is a wat...