Renewing the American Mind
The Classical and Christian Influence over the American Founding
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Church
Preaching Politics?
On Cultural Challenges Facing Pastors Today
In Defense of Decorum
DeYoung, Brindle, and the PCA Has the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) suddenly gone liberal, progressive, soft? Online discourse of […]
The Prodigal Generation
A Guide for Shepherding Gen Z
Wrapping Your Mind Around John Witherspoon
Kevin DeYoung and the Westminster Standards Over the past month, James Baird has carefully guided readers through the differences between […]
Adapted, Not Corrected
A Response to Kevin DeYoung In his recent Themelios article, Kevin DeYoung speaks of “several responses” to his earlier 2024 […]
Culture
Brittania Enraged
A Review of Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later
Passing Peak Pride
There's Good News and Bad News
The Case for Christian Burial
A Remedy for Transhumanism
We Can Fight the Left without Repaganizing
A Response to John Carter The American right is finally done singing from the progressive hymnbook. After decades of insisting […]
Orual’s Free Speech
An Explanation of Parrhesia from Till We Have Faces
Family
Motherhood in America
Mothers Are the Key to a Thriving Nation
Effeminacy is Not Feminine
Nature Must Reassert Itself
The Kingly Love of a Christian Husband
The Just King Governs For the Good of His People
A Protestant Approach to First Cousin Marriage Bans
The Past and Present of First-Cousin Marriage Bans in the West
Dis-Ordo Amoris
Everybody wants to save the world; nobody wants to help mom with the dishes
Forum
Pope Leo, Harbinger of Conciliarism?
Did the new pope dismiss papal supremacy? An article entitled “Pope Leo XIV Drops Papal Supremacy, Urging ‘Full Communion’ with […]
Did Established Churches Bring About European Secularism?
A Call for Modest While We Await Our Verdict A common argument one hears from triumphalist American Christians looking across […]
A Second Look at Lying and the Ethics of the New Christian Right
Lies and Deceit Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part series. Part 1 is available here. Rather […]
A Second Look at Lying and the Ethics of the New Christian Right
A Response to Trueman, Crenshaw, and Cline Not long ago, Ben Crenshaw suggested in an article that deception is sometimes […]
In Defense of the Millennial Life Verse
For Micah and Against Keller in Response to Redemer Earlier this week, Colin Redemer argued in these pages that Generation […]
Reports
Silent Takeover
How Evangelical Churches Are Being Remade from Within
“Too Busy with Woke Stuff”
The All Too (In)Visible and Inconsequential ERLC
A Broken System Exposed: What Happened with Leatherwood and the ERLC Trustees
Brent Refuses To Be Managed; The Trustees Refuse To Do Their Job
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.
Resources
The government of Christ considered and applied
A sermon preached at Boston, in the audience of His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq; the Honorable His Majesty’s Council; and […]
The Duty of Christian Freemen
On the Election of Christian Rulers Introduction Ezra Stiles Ely (1786-1861) was born in Connecticut, graduated Yale, and was licensed […]
A Thanksgiving Sermon on the Total Repeal of the Stamp Act
Delivered on May 20, 1766 Introduction Stamp Act On May 20, 1766, Nathaniel Appleton (1693-1784), pastor of First Church, Cambridge, […]
A Sermon on the Day of the General Election
An Election Resource Brought to You By American Reformer
Preface to Francogallia (1574)
An Appeal to Republican Government and Restoration in France
Society
The Declaration as a Covenant
The Protestant Character of America’s Founding
Amnesty is Political Treason
Illegal Immigration as an Assault on the Body Politic
The Law-and-Order President
Trump’s Approach to the L.A. Riots Is Necessary
No Other God
Protestant Ethics Today (Part 2): The First Commandment
God and Curtis Yarvin at Harvard
The Indispensability of Political Faith On May 5, 2025, the eccentric, curmudgeonly, but endlessly fascinating Curtis Yarvin snuck in the […]
State
Renewing the American Mind
The Classical and Christian Influence over the American Founding
On Baptist Establishment, Again
Charting a Course Through Political Particulars
Donald Trump: Peace President
He’s Earned the Benefit of the Doubt
Monsters to Destroy
Resisting Iran Regime Change
Will the U.S. Go to War with Iran?
President Trump Has a Consequential Decision Before Him