Proto-Protestantism

The Churchill Cult in the United States finds its most tangible expression in Fulton, Missouri the site of his famous speech. Though most pe...

In recent days, with the Ukraine War, the coronation of Charles III, as well as some Evangelical commentaries tangentially connected to thes...

This was but another case of meeting Christian people at a church and getting one impression and then finding them on social media and disco...

Kennedy then takes a strange turn by invoking the memory of Reinhold Niebuhr who was not a Christian by any kind of New Testament measure. H...

or The Distorted Thinking Which Dominates Reformed Political Thinking Today https://americanreformer.org/2023/07/reformed-political-theo...

Having recently finished Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, by John Julius Norwich (first published in 2011), I must say I was in t...

The former Irish Roman Catholic priest Richard Bennett (1938-2019) has always been a figure of sympathy and respect in my book. He was so th...

Listening to Mogel's arguments, there are almost too many ironies to enumerate. On the one hand these folks vigorously push for endless ...

https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/august-25-2023-show-with-jim-mogel-on-food-freedom-agriculture-from-a-biblical-perspective/ ...

I live in a very rural area and while some small-town churches can be warm and friendly others can seem cold and unreceptive.

I recently called an Evangelical pastor with some questions as his church website provided little in the way of substantive information.

The collapse of the Yellow Corporation in August 2023 made a brief splash in the news cycle – probably a little too brief. Many individuals ...

It seems like this subject is coming up a lot lately as I've encountered it in churches, in conversation, and even in podcast discussion...

Pennsylvania media has long been fixated on the trial of the man who went on a murderous Anti-Semitic rampage at a synagogue in Pittsburgh b...

When one thinks of religious conflict and persecution in the Americas, the slaughter of Huguenots at the hands of the Spanish necessarily co...

Were the Beall's disturbed by watching their little five year old disappear into the bowels of a big institutional facility? They should...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/2023/christian-home-schoolers-revolt/ The new Amazon Prime documentary on The Duggars...

https://theaquilareport.com/second-thoughts-about-the-proposed-witness-overtures/ We've just passed General Assembly season in the Pre...

Having recently worked through Crawford Gribben's 2021 Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the P...

https://www.ironsharpensironradio.com/podcast/june-15-2023-show-with-ed-boyle-micah-clouse-on-is-there-hope-for-the-united-church-of-christ/...

For as 'woke' as the environment supposedly is – he's been appalled at the Establishment-friendly narratives (that while sometim...

After having stated on repeated occasions that I don't believe Christians should send their children to public school, how can I justify...

Looking at a social media photo of members of our wider family circle (a network of relations connected by marriage) – I'm struck once a...

Having recently finished Gerard Russell's Heirs of Forgotten Kingdoms (Basic Books, 2014) I found myself once again irritated and put o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ofKxfYqGw In recent weeks, as the media focused on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Israel's foundin...

The Great Commission of Matthew 28 is repeatedly invoked but with a Dominionist overlay that re-casts the passage in terms of a Christianisa...

https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10922121435868 This podcast typifies the kind of confusion that seems to reign at the momen...

It must be granted the appeal to different understandings of law and its implications for Kingdom thinking by Evans is rather astute and is ...

Common Grace is a reality, a mercy, and restraint while the Church bears witness in the world and (this is critically important) wins by los...

https://theecclesialcalvinist.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/the-two-kingdoms-theology-and-christians-today/ The cited article by William B Evan...

I was asked to elaborate a bit on the question of proto-Protestantism's relationship to Magisterial Protestantism and the question of co...

In a Journal of Early Christian Studies article from the 1990's David Hunter argues contrary to Jerome and later interpreters (such as ...

The problems that Berkhof refers to concerning the Godhead and the Incarnation are dilemmas only for the systematician who thinks he can dis...

Louis Berkhof's The History of Christian Doctrines (published in 1937) is a great resource if one is looking for a broad overview of hi...

The hypocritical and frankly spurious ICC indictment of Putin for war crimes was timed perfectly to coincide with Xi's recent trip to Mo...