Purity Is Not A Strategy
Evaluating the Options of Future Christendom
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Christ and His Culture Is the Only Cure for Cults
A Review of DeTrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult by Mary Margaret Olohan
Church
Purity Is Not A Strategy
Evaluating the Options of Future Christendom
Ray Ortlund’s Bad Politics
Another Big Eva Name Backs Kamala Harris Ray Ortlund’s endorsement of Kamala Harris is Exhibit A for why the current […]
The Lord’s Day vs. the NFL
Christians Need to Take the Sabbath Seriously
Biblical Theological Preaching And Narrating a Gospel World View
Preaching Must Encompass the Full Council of the Word of God The Gospel proclamation is the primary weapon in the […]
Not That Kind of Lutheran
Tim Walz and the Future of Lutheranism The announcement of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America member Tim Walz as Kamala […]
Culture
Stuck in Neutral
Why Outdated Frameworks Can’t Advance Christian Higher Education Leaders in Christian higher education must constantly wrestle with one fundamental question: […]
The Profits of Anti-Racism
How God Judges Intellectuals
The Music of the Spheres
Music as Universal Language, from Creation to Redemption “It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet […]
Battling Technology with Beauty
Is the Antidote for our Dystopia Being Surrounded by Beauty? Technology shapes the character of our everyday lives. Without it, […]
A Commonsense Defense of Creeds and Confessions
On Clarity, Honesty, and Good Faith in the Church Introduction It is not uncommon to hear someone within a denomination […]
Family
Christ and His Culture Is the Only Cure for Cults
A Review of DeTrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology Cult by Mary Margaret Olohan
The War On Ordinary Families
A Review of Tim Carney's Family Unfriendly How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be
Fear No Frightening Thing
The Curse of Egalitarianism
A Catechesis in Apostasy
Public School as a Training Ground for Faith?
Christian Men at War
Reject the Vice of Tolerance and the Lie of Egalitarianism
Forum
Nursing Fathers in America
A Response to Kevin DeYoung Over the summer, Kevin DeYoung entered the apparently emerging debate over the congruence of the […]
My People?
Christianity and Nationhood A few weeks ago, Owen Strachan tweeted that his people were not those who shared his cultural […]
A Natural Duty
A Friendly Response to Andrew Walker On X last week, my friend Andew Walker argued that “only eligible entities (i.e., […]
No Help Coming
Reflections on Hurricane Helene
Is the Pope Catholic?
Borderless Faith in A Borderless World “[M]uch less can men, not professing the Christian religion, be saved in any other […]
Reports
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.
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.
Resources
The Duty of Civil Rulers to Be Nursing Fathers
A Sermon Preached Before the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut Introduction Edward Dorr (1722-1772) was the pastor of […]
Pure and undefiled religion, the highest obligation, and truest glory of civil rulers
A 1735 Election Day Sermon Introduction Like so many of the preachers we republish here at American Reformer, we know […]
Natural Religion, as Distinguished from Revealed
A Dudleian Lecture by Ebenezer Gay, May 9, 1759
Christian Bravery
A Sermon Preached before the Honorable Artillery Company in Boston, June 7th, 1736. Being the Day of their Election of […]
On the Right to Rebel Against Governors
An Election Day Sermon, Boston, 1776 Introduction Samuel West was born in 1731 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in […]
Society
America’s Future Past
Of Republics, Frontiers, Empire, and Covenant
The Seven Visions of the United States
What Is Our Identity?
Christian Men Should be Dangerous
Blessed Be The Lord Who Trains My Hands for War
Poison, in UHF
A Review of I Saw the TV Glow
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
A Contested Prooftext in an Election Season
State
Democracy is Not on the Ballot
Why Good Government Trump’s Popular Government
Political Man vs. Managerial Machine
Human Civilization is the Struggle Between Great Men & Hordes of Mediocre Statesmen
Who is the Sovereign?
The Populist Implications of Archbishop James Ussher’s Political Theology of Sovereignty
There Are Always Consequences
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Destruction of Christian Communities in the Middle East
Free Speech and Anarcho-Tyranny in the UK
Woe to Those Who Call What is Evil, Good