Proto-Protestantism

Too often Protestants have fallen prey to 'successionist' thinking or rather tying the idea of succession to some kind of institutio...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/waldensianism-before-waldo-the-myth-of-apostolic-protoprotestantism-in-antebe...

I've been unable to find the source for the quote but there's a statement made by someone in the 18th or 19th century about how the ...

https://credomag.com/article/natural-theology-and-van-til/ Classical Theology in this case is in reference to Aristotelian-driven Scholast...

The world is in turmoil and at such a degree and tempo that it's almost impossible to keep up with events. I could post multiple article...

Where to go to church? What is one to do in these troubling times? There are many articles written about this topic. Some are helpful, other...

In many cases his interpretation of culture, politics, and geo-politics will leave the American reader confused. Profoundly conservative, hi...

I recently finished reading James Bratt's 2013 work - Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat. I cannot recommend it enough...

https://americanreformer.org/2023/03/the-case-for-the-laws-first-table/ In this case the American Reformer's Timon Cline is appealing t...

Various news stories continue to emerge suggesting that kids lack self-control when it comes to social media and viewing videos, especially ...

Dolezal's admission of mutabilist language being present in the text and his resort to nonliteral, accommodationist, and anthropomorphic...

https://frame-poythress.org/scholasticism-for-evangelicals-thoughts-on-all-that-is-in-god-by-james-dolezal/ After following the Dolezal-Div...

https://evangelicalfocus.com/multimedia/video/24261/Dan_Strange:_Faith,_work_and_Culture_Wars There's a lot packed into this 12-minute...

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/05/07/1249203297/neoliberal-economics-the-road-to-freedom-or-authoritarianism The report of this l...

https://wng.org/opinions/another-cold-war-1714597247 This typifies the kind of material we have come to expect from Littlejohn - misleadin...

I recently had a nice long chat with an Anglo-Catholic priest and we discussed the issue of authority and how their understanding differs fr...

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...