Proto-Protestantism
Calling for a Return to the Doctrinal Ideals and Kingdom Ethics of the First Reformation
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A General Welcome (updated)
Who were the Proto-Protestants?
Glossary
A brief note regarding Gnostic Dualism
Why Suport This Project
The Critical Spirit, Confrontation and Perceived A...
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29 November 2021
A Dominionist-Evangelical Distortion of Haiti's Sad History
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https://www.breakpoint.org/helping-haiti-with-our-heads-and-hearts/ Haiti has been in the news more than once in 2021. Unrest, assassinati...
25 November 2021
The Christian-Right and the Rittenhouse Acquittal
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Kyle Rittenhouse is the product of a generation brought up in the midst of social turmoil, economic decline, and endless war. It's evide...
15 November 2021
The Unity of the Brethren and the Magisterial Reformation (Part 2)
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For the Bohemian Brethren, the contacts with the Magisterial Reformation produced mostly negative results. Swept up into the political strug...
The Unity of the Brethren and the Magisterial Reformation (Part 1)
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A good resource regarding the formative years of the Moravian Church is The History of the Unity of Brethren (A Protestant Hussite Church in...
02 November 2021
The Establishment's Suppression of the January 6 Investigation (III)
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Nancy Pelosi is the Right's greatest and most powerful enemy within Congress and at this point she's the one figure that could reall...
The Establishment's Suppression of the January 6 Investigation (II)
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The US sought unipolarity in 1989 and thirty years later it finds itself in grave danger, the dream lost, and US hegemony under threat. The ...
The Establishment's Suppression of the January 6 Investigation (I)
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Some independent commentators have picked up on the fact that the mainstream media, the so-called 'Leftist' media has all but ignore...
27 October 2021
Barna on Marxism (Part 2)
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If the younger generation has soured on capitalism it's because they've come of age at a time when the entry level situation is fair...
Barna and Marxism (Part 1)
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https://familyliferadio.blubrry.net/2021/10/21/faith-under-fire-ep-74-marxism-in-america-part-1/ George Barna is best known for his fusion...
21 October 2021
A Broken Ecclesiology
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https://churchleaders.com/news/396413-reports-of-an-unsettling-trend-of-pastors-leaving-the-ministry.html The broken ecclesiology that dom...
18 October 2021
A Recent Visit to an Evangelical Congregation
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As our congregation has succumbed to Trumpism we are currently looking at other options and let's say the scene is not encouraging. Sund...
16 October 2021
Revelation 18: The Merchant Princes of Babylon, Their Sorceries, Mammon and Medicine
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Revelation 18.23 refers to the sorceries of fallen Babylon. It could be a reference to Babylon in general or more specifically to the mercha...
11 October 2021
Macron and the New Edict of Fontainebleau
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In October 2020, French president Emmanuel Macron proposed new education legislation that was meant to counter the influence of subcultures ...
07 October 2021
Covid and False Gospels
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https://julieroys.com/sherri-tenpenny-covid-denier-christian-nationalism/ This is the hour of deceived deceivers. If every dog has his day...
01 October 2021
Siemon-Nietto on Vietnam: No Wisdom Gained
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http://uwesiemon.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-wrong-side-won.html I have written before about Uwe Siemon-Nietto who is a semi-frequent guest o...
28 September 2021
Milley, The Deep State, and the Present Crisis
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Is General Milley a traitor? The Trumpites would have you think so. As a Christian my concerns to this end are minimal at best. Let the dead...
23 September 2021
The System and Racism
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Recently I was talking with my son and he told me about some experiences he had on a Christian chat forum that he visits from time to time. ...
18 September 2021
Contemporary Iconoclasm: Cancel Culture and Statue Removal
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When the Magisterial Reformation appeared on the scene in the Sixteenth Century it was followed by many episodes of iconoclasm. Protestant m...
26 August 2021
Inbox: The Book of Revelation as a Justification for High Church Liturgy
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Over the years I have heard various appeals to the Book of Revelation as some kind of guide or normative template for New Testament worship....
22 August 2021
Christo-Trumpism and January 6th
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgBOsGFc5h4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJVMoe7OY0 I don't doubt this testimony for one moment and...
12 August 2021
The Testimony of IC Herendeen and World War I
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Irwin C Herendeen (1883-1982) is a name few remember today. Those who are familiar with the name usually connect it to Arthur Pink. A Christ...
27 July 2021
Helm on Vocation
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https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2021/the-christian-mans-calling/ Helm begins by arguing that Evangelicals have adopted an ...
24 July 2021
Judaizing and Reductionism: An Interaction with MacArthurite Hermeneutics (Part 2)
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That the Old Testament was harder to understand did not minimise the onus placed on the saints of that era. And yet, New Testament believers...
Judaizing and Reductionism: An Interaction with MacArthurite Hermeneutics (Part 1)
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https://blog.tms.edu/is-the-old-testament-unintelligible-without-the-new I was struck by two recent displays of the reductionist hermeneut...
16 July 2021
Bercot's Covid Ethics: Practical Wisdom and Shortcomings
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLI_iF75_-8 Overall this was a very good forum. My wife and I both agreed that is was some of the best pra...
10 July 2021
A Postmortem on Covid Postmortems (Part 2)
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His comments on the government operating outside parameters and violating its God-given authority are frankly ridiculous. It's the wrong...
A Postmortem on Covid Postmortems (Part 1)
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https://thelocalkirk.org/a-postmortem-on-covid-and-the-church/ Perhaps what I found most disappointing about this piece is that many will ...
04 July 2021
The Shadow State is Alive and Well
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https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881 The stage for all of this was set in the aftermath of 9...
26 June 2021
Evangelicalism and A Hidden Life (2019)
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The title of the movie is taken from George Elliot. In Middlemarch she writes: "The growing good of the world is partly dependent on ...
22 June 2021
Afghanistan and the Fall of Saigon
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In recent days while reflecting on Afghanistan and the US withdrawal, I have thought more and more of Vietnam and what happened there in 197...
20 June 2021
The PBS Documentary on Billy Graham
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I was at first a little surprised to see that PBS-American Experience had produced a documentary on Billy Graham. In other respects it wasn...
18 June 2021
Inbox: Wilberforce
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What should we think about William Wilberforce? I think Wilberforce was sincere in his intentions and who can doubt that his campaign re...
15 June 2021
The Kamala Harris Tweet, Memorial Day Weekend, and Right-wing Political Correctness
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I had to laugh over Memorial Day weekend 2021. I happened to be someplace where I had access to television and so I couldn't help it – I...
09 June 2021
Dangerous Roads in the Realm of Natural Theology
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https://evangelicalfocus.com/science/10764/john-polkinghorne-saw-the-doctrine-of-the-trinity-as-consonant-with-the-entangled-world-of-quantu...
27 May 2021
Biden's Victory: Despair and the Moment
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It's hard to miss. In Evangelical and Confessional circles there's a heavy despondency over the Biden presidency and the fact that T...
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