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13 March 2021

The Trump Acquittal and Post-Trump GOP Hypocrisy

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As is already clear in the historical record, reflections and fallout from the Second Trump Impeachment are producing a wide array of opinio...
01 March 2021

Larger Works Within the New Testament: Their Tensions and Roles (Part 2)

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Hebrews for its part is Redemptive-Historical theology par excellence as it elaborates the nature of the prophetic word, the Sabbath, priest...

Larger Works Within the New Testament: Their Tensions and Roles (Part 1)

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It is with fondness that I often reflect upon friendships I formed in the 1990's with some fellow Christians. We always marvel that in t...
17 February 2021

The Role of Scepticism and the Shift to the Right in Mainstream American Politics

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Most Conservatives will insist that the American political spectrum has shifted rapidly to the Left over the past fifty years and will make ...
11 February 2021

What The Great Reset Is and Isn't

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https://evangelicalfocus.com/life-tech/9854/is-the-great-reset-a-plan-of-the-global-elites-to-restrict-freedoms This was a remarkably sobe...
09 February 2021

Mammon and the Accommodationist Triad of Feminism, Psychology, and Divorce

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We can speak of a Social Accommodationist Triad or SAT. There are many aspects of social life that could be plugged into this equation but i...
06 February 2021

The Christian Response to Cancel Culture

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Evangelicals are outraged at the prospect of being kicked of Twitter, Facebook, or some other form of social media.
02 February 2021

Is the Church Under Threat in 2021?

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There is a lot of anxiety at present, fears that the blowing winds of social and political change will find the Church in a place of danger....
27 January 2021

Some Notes and Comments on: The History of the Protestant Church in Hungary

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The History of the Protestant Church in Hungary from the beginning of the Reformation to 1850 is a commendable historical work. It value is...
10 January 2021

The Trumpite Schism and the Storming of the US Capitol (Part 2)

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Trumpites and Conservatives are desperate to pin the insurrection (in reality a failed coup) on groups like BLM and Antifa but despite their...

The Trumpite Schism and the Storming of the US Capitol (Part 1)

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I've been struck by the number of Trumpites and Republicans that seem genuinely shocked at the 6 January storming of the Capitol. 'T...
30 December 2020

Postscript: An Aesthetic both Transient and Transcendent

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XXII/Final) We ought to understand that technolo...
29 December 2020

Postscript: Magisterial Protestantism's Cultural Legacy and Aesthetic Schizophrenia

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XXI) This topic may seem off-base or represent a...
28 December 2020

Postscript: Last Days Dualities and The Cult of Monism

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XX) The dominant monism of today is a result of ...
27 December 2020

Postscript: Pending Crises and Doctrinal Corollaries Viewed Through a First Reformational Lens

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIX) There are several additional areas that are...
24 December 2020

The Covid Crisis in the Church at the End of 2020

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What a catastrophe. What a shame and disgrace. Covid cases are increasing and even our small town newspaper is reflecting this – the obituar...

Inbox: Utilising the Decalogue

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I have paraphrased the question(s) below: If the Decalogue is technically defunct in the New Covenant era and yet still expresses the Eter...
20 December 2020

A Final Appeal: The First Reformation Applied to the Contemporary Context (Part 2)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVIII) While our Biblicist theology is necessari...

A Final Appeal: The First Reformation Applied to the Contemporary Context (Part 1)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVII) The time is now. These essays have attem...
16 December 2020

An Indictment of Evangelicalism in Light of the First Reformation Imperative

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XVI) The time is now. The revisiting and recas...
06 December 2020

Asian Tensions and the Clash of Empires: Trump, Xi and the 19th Congress of the CCP

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Has Xi extended his power or has he been rebuked and curtailed by elements within the Beijing bureaucracy? It depends on how you read the 19...
29 November 2020

The Moral Law: Ezekiel 20, the Sabbath, and the Decalogue

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Moreover I also gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.(Ezekie...
25 November 2020

The First Reformation and the Present Ecclesiastical Crisis

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XV) The time is now. Dominionism and the reactio...
20 November 2020

Afghanistan and Iraq at the End of the Trump Era

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The panicked reaction to Trump's planned troop withdrawal from both Iraq and Afghanistan has been palpable. The media and the US Establi...

Pluralism, Modernity, and the Third Constantinian Shift

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIV) Once again we are reminded of the strange r...
18 November 2020

The Blind Facilitators

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https://www.aomin.org/aoblog/christian-worldview/where-we-stand-how-church-history-can-help-but-only-so-far/ Though he's a bit late to...
14 November 2020

The Legacy of the Second Constantinian Shift and the Threat of Secularism

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XIII) Not all among the Czech Brethren and Walde...
08 November 2020

First Reformation Primitivism and the Second Constantinian Shift

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XII) The First Reformation it would seem embrace...
01 November 2020

Transgressing the Celestial Order

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Why The Church Must Reject Politics (Part II) Peter knows that these teachers will be engaged in activity that will lead to the Church bei...

Providence, Power and Second-Class Citizenship

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Why The Church Must Reject Politics (Part I) These are questions that I have addressed many times but I'll address some specific point...
30 October 2020

Competing Kingdom and Doctrinal Narratives: The First Reformation versus Twentieth Century Dominionism

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (XI) The first half of the Twentieth Century saw ...
24 October 2020

The Legacy of First Reformation Separatism versus Magisterial Protestantism's Establishment Ethos (1517-1914)

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (X) There is value in a further elaboration of th...
20 October 2020

New Testament Christianity, Homeschooling and the Collapse of French Pluralism

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https://evangelicalfocus.com/europe/8340/evangelicals-react-to-frances-plans-to-fight-islamist-separatism I am certain that attitudes have...
18 October 2020

The First Reformation and Magisterial Reformation Contrasted

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (IX) Another way of reviewing and emphasizing the...
13 October 2020

Waldensian Historiography

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Recovering the First Reformation - Toward a Proto-Protestant Narrative of Church History (VIII) The question of Waldensian placement becom...