Proto-Protestantism

I'm hardly the first to muse on the irony of how the Right expressed constant concern over Obama and how the Left made him into a messia...

As reported in a previous piece the Bohemian Brethren who would later become the Moravians were involved in the 1618 Protestant plot to inst...

Driving home from a rather High-Church Anglican service, I reflected on the many different understandings of worship and the relationship (i...

Eighty years ago today a bomb exploded at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia killing four men. The intended target, Adolf Hitler survived b...

https://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2023/the-background-to-the-great-ejection/  For years I simply accepted the narrative surro...

Recently I discovered a new congregation in the area. It's not really in my area but I decided to make the drive and investigate. There ...

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/why-i-went-cold-turkey-on-political-theology This is the story of a man wh...

The original nation under the Articles of Confederation wouldn't hold together and so for many the revolution was betrayed by the creati...

My criticism of the United States and its wars as well as expressions of patriotism are not meant to trample on personal feelings, nor am I ...

https://building.christkirk.com/ For those familiar with Wilson's 1998 'Angels in the Architecture', this appeal for a new buil...

There are clearly some who are unhappy with Assange's release and believe he should have been either executed or incarcerated for life. ...

https://www.douglasvandorn.com/post/a-christian-nation-or-the-covenant-of-works-applied-to-the-nations-undoing-bad-christian-argument If it...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/christian-movement-new-apostolic-reformation-politics-trump/674320/ This story received s...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/08/how-madeleine-albright-got-the-war-the-u-s-wanted/ Elich speaks of the US wanting war in 1999 and s...

https://julieroys.com/rift-author-cait-west-talks-breaking-free-christian-patriarchy/ Once again this is a sad but increasingly common stor...

When considering the worker shortage that seems so evident when one is out and about interacting with the US economy, the various explanatio...

I've been working my way through Edmund Alexander de Schweinitz's The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum; or, The Uni...

The non-sacral sect model views culture as something that is at best inevitably corrupt (and thus to some degree a thing indifferent), and a...

What of those who insist it's wrong for the Church to be viewed as a sect? Is it an institution? Is it right for us to think of it in su...

 In a recent sermon, the pastor (while dealing with 2 Timothy 4) addressed the issue of fables and myths that will be introduced into the Ch...

I happened to be up in Western New York the other day and picked up Insight for Living, the radio programme of Chuck Swindoll on WDCX out of...

Modern Christians lament the sixteenth century Copernican Shift which initiated the reformulation of not just cosmology but epi...

At certain times it hits you. Someone you know dies and that someone was a lost person, and you think about their life and you ...

https://wng.org/opinions/playing-chicken-with-the-lords-day-1707873572 I read this article in frustration and then laughed when I reached ...

Confessionalists and Evangelicals, (the two dominate groups in my Judah- Southern Kingdom analogy) don’t quote their own prophets as do the ...

  Given all the overtly heretical forms of Christianity that are out there, why spend so much time criticizing conservative leaders and mini...

https://theaquilareport.com/transferring-church-membership-is-not-a-violation-of-the-presbyterian-church-in-americas-membership-vows-a-gentl...

https://www.smalltowntheologian.org/for-those-who-argue-against-creeds/ Those who reject Confessionalism are fools we're told by this ...

Atlanticism represents a historical anomaly – Europe under subjugation from an outside power. For many decades this was limited to Western E...

These discussions and debates are further confused by the influence of Neo-Calvinism (not to be confused with New Calvinism) and Theonomy wh...

https://reformedperspective.ca/on-the-proper-role-of-government-and-article-36-of-the-belgic-confession/ The Reformed Perspective/Bredenho...

  While attending a New Calvinist congregation this last Sunday, we were disappointed to discover that a woman connected to the pro-life mov...

All things considered, I don't disagree with Wyman's general narrative regarding the rise of the modern West and how it surpassed pr...

Patrick Wyman's The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance and Forty Years that Shook the World (published in 2021 by Twelve) focuses primaril...

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/12/has-hitler-won-on-the-left Carl Trueman of Grove City College laments the moral decline...