Proto-Protestantism

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (V) The growing apostasy at work in the post-Cons...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (IV) The following is by no means exhaustive but ...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (III) Nevin imposes a theological paradigm and me...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (II) In his Early Christianity series, Nevin goe...

Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (I) The study of Church History is one dominate...

In the grand scheme of things we can say this – wearing a mask is a small price to pay, a small inconvenience especially if it helps to pr...

After 9/11, it was the Right-wing and the political Conservatives who supported the suspending of rights. They supported the curtailing of...

As previously mentioned, the explosion in Beirut was quickly capitalised on by France's Macron – the Americans are absent, and thus ot...

It is really in the realm of foreign policy that Trump has upset the American Establishment in the strongest of terms – and I'm not re...

Reports have come out regarding street protestors burning Bibles. Already upset by the taking down of statues and monuments, this story ha...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtdPoLDl5jU At 4:44, Jordan Hall engages in a classic syncretistic move of bait and switch. Juxtaposing ...

The Anti-Russian campaign is in full swing. It might as well be 1950, 1961 or 1983. It's reaching that kind of intensity. First, we...

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...