Proto-Protestantism

On many occasions I've been driven to reflect on the immigrant experience. Apart from my Germans who came from Russia in the late ninete...

I was asked concerning Romans 9 and Paul's affection for the Jewish people. Apparently this passage is used by some Dominionists to just...

Did Biden err in making this now infamous speech – in calling out MAGA Republicans and the Trumpite movement, and in identifying them as a t...

It goes without saying that the death of Elizabeth II is a cultural milestone. It's unsettling for many as one of the foundational pilla...

The New Testament tells us to honor the king and given the Neronic context of these writings and apostolic exhortations, that imperative rem...

https://mereorthodoxy.com/church-architecture/ This was another offering at The Aquila Report. A ridiculous article and all the more in th...

The point in all this is to say – that at some point his employers may conclude that he has no future there (or no near future) and they may...

As I reported a few days back my son (who is in his early twenties) recently broke his back in a bicycle accident. He came very close to los...

It's one thing to break free of philosophy or tradition, or the extant influences of the Magisterial Protestant Reformation, but for Ame...

I feel something of a burden for the members of this group. They are to be commended, for on many points they put the larger Evangelical and...

https://www.christianpost.com/news/churches-address-mental-health-stigma-in-the-pews.html In some respects it's surprising that this a...

For years commentators have spoken of the decline of America and what it would look like. Others (including myself) have argued that the Ame...

After many years I finally found the time to read Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical A...

As far as charging interest to the unbeliever and that sort of thing – for me it's out of the question. I don't believe I can view t...

https://www.holytrinity-lansing.org/articles-from-father-mark-1/2020/1/20/the-sin-we-stopped-feeling-sorry-for This article was sent to me...

Not long ago it was one of those rare Saturdays – the womenfolk were gone and it was just me and my sons. As readers will know I am committe...

Visiting a church last Sunday I wasn't terribly surprised when there was mention of the Dobbs v. Jackson case and the overturning of the...

To my mind, it makes perfect sense that this dispute over the doctrine of God has arisen in the context of Reformed Baptist circles as I hav...

https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/june-17-2022-show-with-dr-sam-waldron-on-do-we-still-believe-sola-scriptura-a-word-of-caution-...

Does 1 Timothy chapter 2 assume that Paul looked for Christian magistrates?

https://wng.org/opinions/welcome-to-pride-month-christian-1654083759 Trueman is right to lament Pride Month and the latest shift in our cu...

It's June, and in the United States that's the time when the Supreme Court issues its substantial rulings. If the reports are to be ...

Understanding the hopelessly corrupt nature of the world and its vanity we can then (with Paul and the Corinthians) take comfort in being ...

In a recent piece I wrote concerning the Dominionist-driven Evangelical movement: Their values are based on the pursuit of political power...

Under the banner of co-belligerence, Evangelicals continue to deepen their ties to Roman Catholicism and openly work alongside elements with...

Visiting another church this Sunday once more proved to be a serious disappointment. The congregation was something of a hybrid between Fund...

https://caldronpool.com/the-gospel-has-many-political-implications-for-a-nation/ New Calvinist pastor Matthew Littlefield asserts that tho...

As we're in the process of revisiting area churches, I had occasion to attend a rural Fundamentalist congregation about forty-five minut...

Returning again to the chimeric experimenters, they're tinkering with things that are beyond them. We're not materialists. There...

https://evangelicalfocus.com/science/15001/christian-doctors-see-no-ethical-problem-in-genetically-modified-pig-heart-transplant-to-human ...

*updated 9 April 2022 Even the Old Testament casts doubt on the continuity reading of Revelation 21. Ecclesiastes, a book that is so probl...

Doesn't Revelation 21 teach cultural continuity? Doesn't it teach that cultural attainments will be part of our life in heaven? Are ...

Many Evangelicals will undoubtedly celebrate the recent legislative moves in Texas and Florida and both governors (one Catholic and one Evan...

In light of current events Moldova and Georgia have applied for EU membership. For its part, Moldova has been engaged in a tug-of-war betwee...

Are these concepts surrounding social credit, access, and economics harbingers of the Mark of the Beast?