Proto-Protestantism

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y772jlpgzo In early July 2025, the Dalai Lama finally announced that he would have a successor, that the...

A friend recently wrote to me asking if I had heard about the death of James Dobson. I told him I heard it break over the news while I was a...

I have often talked about the Materialist assumption at work in our culture. It is just assumed that everything that exists has some kind of...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/21/hegseth-starts-evangelical-prayer-services-pentagon-his-tennessee-church-pastor.html The Conf...

There is a great deal of confusion out there. This hardly needs to be said but I was reminded again of it on a recent Sunday when talking to...

https://www.politico.eu/article/abdullah-ocalan-pkk-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-kurdistan/ https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Turkey-celebrate...

Should I dispense with bank accounts? I wouldn't mind doing so but it's increasingly becoming impossible. I tried at one point years...

To me the issue is not about specifically paying usury or even enabling those who sin by taking it from me. I don't expect otherwise fro...

...Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jTld1nmkq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVz4okhdRU Several weeks ago I caught Jordan Cooper's vide...

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/themelios/article/beginning-at-the-end-of-all-things/ The theology and thought of Abraham Kuyper (1837-19...

From time to time I will watch (usually in segments) the 2004 film The Ister , which is a three-hour fascinating re-telling and interpreta...

So if the Rich Young Ruler had (in faith) obeyed the commands of God, his works would mean something. This does not suggest he could earn hi...

Not long ago I listened to a sermon on the Rich Young Ruler in Matthew 19 and I was struck by the difficulty the preacher seemed to have in ...

Attending church this Sunday, I was struck once again by the different approaches and understandings as to what we're doing there, who a...

We are then subjected to ridiculous ad for 'Christian Coffee' whatever that is. To be frank, I'd rather give my money to Starbuc...

https://www.theblaze.com/abide/meek-not-weak-the-era-of-christian-loserdom-is-over https://founders.org/podcasts/tstt-must-christians-lose-...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/remember-to-remember-part-1/id1433823311?i=1000710247721 SermonAudio blocks anyone who is deemed ...

With a tone of moral vindication, the BBC reported on the Starmer government's condemnation and sanction of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel ...

https://churcheswithoutchests.net/2025/03/13/the-imitation-of-christ/ I am pleased to note de Bruyn also offers some praise for the Theologi...

https://firstthings.com/pope-francis-my-worst-protestant-nightmare/ https://wng.org/opinions/an-office-of-great-cultural-significance-17464...

When trying to explain how a First Reformation and non-resistance view might operate in today's world and how we might bear witness with...

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...