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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28 October 2022
The False Dilemma of the 2022 Election
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Albert Mohler and other Evangelicals are right, we as Christians cannot vote for Democrats. Amen. And they go further and suggest those that...
23 October 2022
Inflation as a Tool and the Spectre of Corporatism
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When inflation rates rise, the Right often makes demagogic appeals to the Gold Standard accompanied by denunciations of fiat currency and ce...
16 October 2022
An Account of Evangelicalism's Continued Decline
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As our routine has been further derailed by my son's injury, I decided on a recent rainy Sunday to revisit an Alliance (CMA) congregatio...
07 October 2022
The Meloni Problem (II)
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Whether Meloni is able to implement her policies or not is yet to be seen. Her coalition may very well implode as she is contending with som...
The Meloni Problem (I)
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God, Family, and Country – what's wrong with that? This is the response of the Christian Right to the electoral victory of Giorgia Melon...
03 October 2022
Public School is Not an Option for Christians (II)
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What drives these Christian teachers to stay in the public system? For some it's just pragmatic concerns about job change and pensions. ...
Public School is Not an Option for Christians (I)
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https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1121999705/sex-education-school-kindergarten Parents need to understand the sodomite-feminist ethos is omni...
25 September 2022
An Immigrant Tragedy
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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...
19 September 2022
Inbox: Romans 9 and Paul's Affection for Israel as a Justification for Patriotism
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I was asked concerning Romans 9 and Paul's affection for the Jewish people. Apparently this passage is used by some Dominionists to just...
15 September 2022
Biden's Independence Hall Speech and the Evangelical Response
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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...
11 September 2022
Sundry Thoughts and Reflections on the Queen's Death (II)
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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...
Sundry Thoughts and Reflections on the Queen's Death (I)
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The New Testament tells us to honor the king and given the Neronic context of these writings and apostolic exhortations, that imperative rem...
03 September 2022
Sacralist Judaizing and Church Architecture
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https://mereorthodoxy.com/church-architecture/ This was another offering at The Aquila Report. A ridiculous article and all the more in th...
28 August 2022
A Broken Back to the Glory of God (II)
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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...
A Broken Back to the Glory of God (I)
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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...
27 August 2022
An Appeal to the Watchtower Society and Former Members of the Jehovah's Witnesses (II)
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It's one thing to break free of philosophy or tradition, or the extant influences of the Magisterial Protestant Reformation, but for Ame...
An Appeal to the Watchtower Society and Former Members of the Jehovah's Witnesses (I)
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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...
16 August 2022
Secular Psychology and the Denial of Scriptural Authority
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https://www.christianpost.com/news/churches-address-mental-health-stigma-in-the-pews.html In some respects it's surprising that this a...
02 August 2022
The War Option, the Calculus of Empire, and the Dreams of Madmen
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For years commentators have spoken of the decline of America and what it would look like. Others (including myself) have argued that the Ame...
24 July 2022
Chiliasm, Totalitarian Cults, and The Pursuit of the Millennium
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After many years I finally found the time to read Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical A...
18 July 2022
Inbox: Usury and Related Questions (II)
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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...
Inbox: Usury and Related Questions (I)
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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...
08 July 2022
We Were Soldiers and Mel Gibson's Cinematic Lies
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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...
02 July 2022
Feeling Better About America
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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...
30 June 2022
Sola Scriptura and Divine Simplicity (II)
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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...
Sola Scriptura and Divine Simplicity (I)
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https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/june-17-2022-show-with-dr-sam-waldron-on-do-we-still-believe-sola-scriptura-a-word-of-caution-...
26 June 2022
Inbox: Paul, Timothy, and the Case for Christian Rulers
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Does 1 Timothy chapter 2 assume that Paul looked for Christian magistrates?
21 June 2022
Trueman: A Little Late to the Antithesis Game
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https://wng.org/opinions/welcome-to-pride-month-christian-1654083759 Trueman is right to lament Pride Month and the latest shift in our cu...
07 June 2022
Dobbs v. Jackson: A Pyrrhic Victory at Best
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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 ...
28 May 2022
Inbox: Rights Based Ethics and the Evangelical Movement (II)
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Understanding the hopelessly corrupt nature of the world and its vanity we can then (with Paul and the Corinthians) take comfort in being ...
Inbox: Rights Based Ethics and the Evangelical Movement (I)
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In a recent piece I wrote concerning the Dominionist-driven Evangelical movement: Their values are based on the pursuit of political power...
12 May 2022
The Consecration of Russia and Fatima
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Under the banner of co-belligerence, Evangelicals continue to deepen their ties to Roman Catholicism and openly work alongside elements with...
03 May 2022
Dominionism and the Tucker Carlson School of Homiletics
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Visiting another church this Sunday once more proved to be a serious disappointment. The congregation was something of a hybrid between Fund...
26 April 2022
Dominionist Eisegesis and Doctrinal Cowardice
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https://caldronpool.com/the-gospel-has-many-political-implications-for-a-nation/ New Calvinist pastor Matthew Littlefield asserts that tho...
19 April 2022
A Fundamentalist Elegy
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As we're in the process of revisiting area churches, I had occasion to attend a rural Fundamentalist congregation about forty-five minut...
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