Donald Trump, Abortion, and Big Eva
In Trump, we have an imperfect ally who nevertheless has achieved crucial pro-life victories.
Latest Articles
How Plain-Spoken Courage Can Move the Overton Window
The Overton window keeps people silent, allowing them to press their propaganda even further.
Church
Against Brokenness Theology
We must eliminate its patterns of speech from our sermons, songs, writings, and even our everyday speech.
Different From and Different For
There is something about the way God made men and women that makes men suitably fit for pastoral work in ways that are unfitting for women.
Why the SBC Is Worth Fighting For
Real institutions take great care over many generations to build. The SBC’s 175+ year legacy is worth fighting for.
The Anatomy of a Cancellation Attempt
Those at the heights of politics and culture like to use social media as a means to undermine their opponents in Red America.
Make the SBC Great Again
It comes down to this: Does the SBC need to be taken over by its critics or to be renewed according to Baptist distinctives?
Culture
How Plain-Spoken Courage Can Move the Overton Window
The Overton window keeps people silent, allowing them to press their propaganda even further.
Sleeper Cell Schools and the Mandate to Rule
Christian schools instill in students a sense of purpose and destiny, challenging them to be catalysts for change.
Heinlein Vs. Verhoeven
Heinlein’s work stands morally in a different league from Verhoeven’s adaptation.
Classically Practical
Classical Christian Ed Must Lay Claim to the New “Job Training” Classical education advocates often make the claim that true […]
Richard Dawkins’ Cultural Christianity
While cultural Christianity is a good thing, it is also unsustainable in the long term without genuine spiritual renewal in society.
Family
Do Not Deprive One Another
I've now been told that emotional intimacy is definitional to marriage, while sex is optional.
Therapeutic Antinomianism
One could say that therapeutic thinking serves as one of the chief supports of a heresy that plagues the church today.
Raising Neurotic Wrecks
Shrier outlines the problem: therapy and therapeutic concepts are ubiquitous today and parents are quick to find therapeutic solutions for everything.
Phyllis Schlafly’s Tragic Failure
In the mainstream, mothers are forgotten or held in contempt, while girlbosses are glorified.
IVF and the GOP’s Warped Priorities
“By the numbers, the baby-making industry is responsible for the destruction of more little lives than the baby-taking industry.”
Forum
But What If We Win?
Commentary on John Davenport Consternation from certain wings of Evangelicalism over Christian nationalism consistently ignores threshold questions for essential any […]
Ordained by Heaven
Commentary on Joseph Lyman’s 1787 election sermon Ben Dunson has an excellent column out today combatting misconceptions in the resurgent […]
Esoteric Dune
Denis Villeneuve: Corrupter of the Youth Knowing where the trap is—that’s the first step in evading it. This is like […]
Abortion is Shameful, Act Like It
The left for a century has changed culture before law, turning the unimaginable into the standard, through relentless campaigns of public shaming.
Civilization and its Enemies
Leftism comes in many flavors that share a consistent theme: resentment, the demand to purify tainted history, and a desire to tear down any civilized society.
Reports
Lifting the Fog on the SBC Finances
The repeated quashing of the majority of the messengers has raised reasonable doubts about the integrity of the process
BREAKING: SBC Decisively Approves Law Amendment, Restores Male-Only Pastorship
The amendment passed overwhelmingly with the support of approximately 80% of the SBC’s messengers by raised ballot.
How Many Female Pastors are in the SBC?
“While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.” (Baptist Faith and Message)
Mr. Smith Goes to the Convention
Whether women can be pastors in the SBC seems increasingly likely to be decided by a popularity contest over Rick Warren.
The SBC Sexual Abuse Report and its Consequences
Leaders and messengers of the SBC need to start having reasoned discussions about these matters now. The SBC will need leaders who have discernment, moral clarity and a backbone. Those running for leadership in the SBC must use their platforms in the coming two weeks to lead the way on deliberations about proposing constructive paths forward.
Resources
The Health and Happiness of the Body Politic
Preached at Coventry, April 1781. Introduction Most of what we publish at American Reformer resources is election sermons. Today was […]
God Ruling the Nations for the Most Glorious End
A sermon, in presence of His Excellency, and both houses of Assembly. Hartford, May 13th, 1784 Introduction Relatively little is […]
A Discourse About Civil Government
In a Plantation Whose Design is Religion Introduction In the introduction of yesterday’s resources installment, it was mentioned that John […]
An Election Sermon
Preach’d at the Election of the Governour, at Boston in New-England, May 19, 1669 Introduction John Davenport (1597-1670) lived a […]
An Election Sermon
Preached before His Excellency James Bowdoin, Esq. Introduction Joseph Lyman was born in 1749 at New London, Connecticut; he died […]
Society
Donald Trump, Abortion, and Big Eva
In Trump, we have an imperfect ally who nevertheless has achieved crucial pro-life victories.
Martin Luther King: American Saint, Christian Apostate
I am here today to say that a Christian has no obligation to speak “lightly” about such things. Much the opposite.
Defending Life in America
Evangelicals and Southern Baptists are eager to support candidates who display unflinching courage.
Have The Courage To Declare Christ Is King
The point is to strip Christians of any meaningful political power by preying on their weakness for tolerance.
Accreditation at the Crossroads
Christian higher education should be at the vanguard of creating new institutional accreditors.
State
Free Speech Ain’t What it Used to Be
As I type these words the NatCon Conference in Belgium is in the midst of being shut down by Belgian police, at the order of the mayor of Brussels.
In The Shadow of the Empire
Your tax dollars are actively seeking the demise of a Christian leader who has brought prosperity to his people.
Carl Trueman and Political Judgment
Quite simply, there is no moral equivalency between what Biden and Trump represent.
State Power, Church Power
If people are going to critique the older Protestant view, they should at least understand it and accurately articulate it.
Divine Rights
America is either a republic with rights derived from God or it is not. If it is an autocracy let you say so and we will leave it.