Proto-Protestantism

While there is much to laud with regard to Lutheranism, the 1550 Magdeburg Confession is a remarkable exception. Written by Lutheran pastors...

https://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc907/ https://churchandfamilylife.com/podcasts/scripture-applied/681b88f593d37c3f67415b85 Regarding...

https://americanreformer.org/2024/07/samuel-davies-colonial-presbyterian-patriot/ My eye was drawn to the locales mentioned in the opening...

https://religionnews.com/2025/03/04/why-are-southern-baptists-still-arguing-about-women-preachers-credentials-committee-newspring/ The rea...

https://gospelreformation.net/dear-pastor-may-my-child-take-the-lords-supper/ Spinnenweber is to be commended as he covers all the bases a...

A Calvinist blogger (from the South) posted about wanting to understand his Celtic roots and then listed some books being read to that end.

 An email newsletter arrived in my inbox from VCY-Crosstalk, which should rightly be called Bircher Radio. They are mouthpieces for that org...

I encountered this on a website - an argument against transubstantiation by means of empirical deduction. It reminded me of what some have c...

Recently I was re-reading a book of essays on Klaas Schilder and on the question of Christ and Culture, NH Gootjes asks if the cultural mand...

https://juicyecumenism.com/2024/11/07/answering-socialism/ One need not be an advocate for Socialism to realize that Bernard Mauser is att...

Back in the 1990's I used to pick up some Malachi Martin works on occasion. He provides insider information about the Jesuits and the Va...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/reagan-evil-empire/ During the Cold War there were three years that stand out - periods in which...

 Wesleyan Methodists (and the related body known as God's Missionary Church) teach: "That second, definite, instantaneous work of...

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-01-30/gaza-middle-east-lies/ This is a helpful summary and reminder of the scope and magnitude of d...

https://www.crossway.org/articles/is-the-lords-supper-jesuss-actual-body-and-blood-1-corinthians/ On one level this article had moments in...

I have been summoned to 'serve' on a jury. This isn't the first time and I must say that one of the disadvantages of living in a...

https://religionnews.com/2024/12/05/the-late-great-hal-lindsey/ As I've mentioned numerous times, I grew up with Hal Lindsey. Like so ...

Rather than reduce art to the Hellenistic categories of the good, true, and beautiful our understanding needs to be both wide and nuanced.

https://g3min.org/art-that-accords-with-sound-doctrine/ This G3 article represents yet another attempt to formulate a Christian theology o...

The recent death of Steve Schlissel (1952-2025) has rekindled some of the discussions regarding Federal Vision - something I also touched on...

https://jacobrcrouch.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/train-your-kids-to-be-christians/ There is much that is positive in this article and I do not...

The visions in Daniel and repeated in Revelation seem to suggest the Roman Empire is the model for the Beast and indeed from the time of the...

War abroad will always mean war waged against the population at home. Contrary to the rhetoric of someone like Biden or the pipe dreams of t...

As Western or even Global society waxes in a more Bestial direction we have to expect heightened opposition and exclusion. If faithful, we s...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64729442 Published in early 2023, this is a disturbing story on many levels. William Hague and Tony Bl...

https://regensburgforum.com/2016/12/12/political-theology-modernity-and-late-scholasticism/ The context for this discussion is the epistem...

The news is focused on Christmas-related human-interest stories, shopping deals, travel woes, actresses who market their bodies and then com...

One can only sit back in wonder when reading a statement like this: It is on this basis that Bavinck can say: “There is thus a rich revela...

https://www.wyattgraham.com/p/what-does-herman-bavinck-mean-by Reading this article about Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), I found myself overw...

The fall of the Assad regime is by all accounts a monumental development in the history of the modern Middle East, and it came rapidly and u...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/living-wonder/ I rather enjoyed reading this review though I have not decided whether I will pic...

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/11/the-new-divide-in-global-anglicanism This article interested me because it's connec...

https://www.str.org/w/will-god-be-in-pain-for-eternity-as-he-watches-people-suffer-in-hell- I will desist from an extended critique of Gre...

I heard Tim Alberta interviewed on Fresh Air back in November of 2023. His interview grabbed my attention as I remain eager to hear Evangeli...

For more than twenty years I have been fascinated by various similarities between aspects of ancient Greek philosophy and that of ancient In...