Proto-Protestantism

https://theologymatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/00Vol6-No1-TM.pdf While there are certainly some advantages to understanding the co...

Through the efforts of my son I was able to read Peter Brock's The Political and Social Doctrines of the Unity of Czech Brethren in the ...

In light of these struggles and the fact that money is not the goal – but to honour God and hopefully (if possible) find something you enjoy...

This question of daughters seems especially difficult in today's context, all the more when you make something of a stand and yet no one...

As my children are all now in early adulthood and yet living at home, we have been forced to wrestle with some of the assumptions in the cul...

The New Testament teaches that the Mosaic order has been disannulled – hence the harsh words in the epistles of Galatians and Hebrews, the e...

The various Babylons of the world will to greater or lesser degrees build law codes and ethical systems and they will all be flawed and tain...

https://philosophical-theology.com/2022/04/02/lee-irons-view-of-unbelievers-and-the-christian-sabbath/ The Theonomist in question argues t...

https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2015/03/constantine-defended-and-revisited.html Recently, I decide to re-read this book and the a...

Providence lobbed the American Church a softball when it came to Covid. Did it rise to the occasion? No, the episode exposed a metastatic sp...

https://frankfurtdeclaration.com This last summer a new doctrinal declaration appeared that for all its bluster has received surprisingly ...

I happened to catch a news story the other day about Amy Grant and how she has completely caved to the Sodomite ethos that now dominates thi...

One could say (given all that has been argued here) that I might be a prime candidate for swimming the Tiber (or Crossing the Bosphorus) and...

While the aforementioned councils of Late Antiquity were not 'ecumenical' councils – a point some make to argue their canon proclama...

As mentioned previously contemporary Evangelicals and Confessional Protestants are quick to adopt the canons and concepts of Higher Criticis...

http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2022/12/gems-from-shepherd-of-hermas.html In light of recent statements regarding the Early Church...

https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/november-30-2022-show-with-dr-joe-boot-and-joel-webbon-on-the-mission-of-god-a-manifesto-of-ho...

It's been quite a few years since I read The Shepherd of Hermas. Reading it anew I was reminded of how alien it is to Evangelical sensib...

Recently re-reading some Early Church Fathers, I was both pleased and inspired to discover this exhortation on the part of Ignatius of Antio...

https://issuesetc.org/2022/07/29/2101-christian-crusaders-raymond-ibrahim-7-29-22/ This was but another ridiculous interview I found on Is...

The psychology explosion took place (culturally speaking) in the 1970's and the Evangelical movement in its zeal to be culturally releva...

This piece is in response to the 16 August 2022 piece entitled Secular Psychology and the Denial of Scriptural Authority found here: https...

https://rfbwcf.substack.com/p/does-the-bible-trump-the-bco The Book of Church Order (BCO) is utilised in various forms by various Presbyte...

Following recent Christian discussions on historiography, it was inevitable that criticism directed at Historicism would eventually be put o...

Albert Mohler and other Evangelicals are right, we as Christians cannot vote for Democrats. Amen. And they go further and suggest those that...

When inflation rates rise, the Right often makes demagogic appeals to the Gold Standard accompanied by denunciations of fiat currency and ce...

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...

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...

God, Family, and Country – what's wrong with that? This is the response of the Christian Right to the electoral victory of Giorgia Melon...

What drives these Christian teachers to stay in the public system? For some it's just pragmatic concerns about job change and pensions. ...

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1121999705/sex-education-school-kindergarten Parents need to understand the sodomite-feminist ethos is omni...

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...