Magistracy: An Institution of Christ Upon the Throne
A 1744 Election Sermon Introduction We know little about James Allin (1692-1747) (also spelled “Allen”)—a common name on both sides […]
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The Nature of the American Regime
There is good reason then that the Right—along with increasing numbers of Americans—is distrustful of our public institutions.
Church
David French and the PCA’s General Assembly
Political Polarization and the Peace and Purity of the Church
Petitioning the Magistrate
A Response to T. David Gordon’s Protest of the PCA Transgender Surgery Petition
An Alabama Podcaster Bucked Big Eva
Big Eva capitulation to blue, progressive sensibilities denies Southern Baptists the platforming of many important voices.
Perversion is Not Christian
Christians should not accept the essential premise of Revoice, namely, that what is unchosen is “inborn,” “natural,” and above all “not shameful”
The Evolution of Protestant Politics
The state cannot be neutral with regard to the Church. It has a responsibility to protect and support it in its work.
Culture
For God and Country
Institutions are especially needed that can give boys purpose, forming them into being good husbands and fathers.
Revolution from the Middle
The Insurgent Disposition In 1976, sociologist Donald Warren published a little-known book with the title The Radical Center: Middle Americans […]
Empty Sky Liberalism and the Post-Christian World
Our transition from a predominantly Christian world to post-Christian was not a sudden cultural shift.
Education for Political Animals
The truth is that the Western tradition simply refuses to acknowledge a dichotomy between education’s transcendent and earthly ends.
Moscow Magnanimity
There is a greatness of soul to the figureheads of the Moscow Mood, especially in their habitual joviality.
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
Can’t Stop Mugshot Trump
And Big Eva Doesn’t Like It Donald Trump’s campaign funding skyrocketed last year after the infamous Georgia mugshot. It was […]
The Smart Take From the Strong
This Fabian Strategy aligns well with Renn's proposed concept of cultural insurgency.
Lobster or Frog?
Maybe Paine, not Burke, is Right for Our Times Consider, if you will, that Thomas Paine, not Edmund Burke, may […]
A Political Solution
How to Ordinarily Renew a Nation The past couple months have been surreal. Megan Basham, Santiago Pliego, and Doug Wilson […]
On Protests and Protesting
Or: Two Things Can Be True at Once It is a good maxim in Politicks as well as War to […]
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
Good Rulers are Fathers to Their People
An Election Sermon Preached in New England, 1748 Introduction Daniel Lewes (1685-1753) was born in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay in […]
Magistracy: An Institution of Christ Upon the Throne
A 1744 Election Sermon Introduction We know little about James Allin (1692-1747) (also spelled “Allen”)—a common name on both sides […]
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 […]
Society
Knit Together
Every pregnancy should signal loudly to us that God is at work.
If Only Someone Would Persecute Us
Since persecution is not a sure sign of goodness, it’s madness to desire it as a sign of goodness.
The Inescapability of Identity Politics
Right-leaning Christians are not free to reward a social group by taking fundamental God-given rights away from another group.
The Angry Kulak
America’s white kulaks have a more legitimate claim to rage than just about any other demographic in the country.
Donald Trump, Abortion, and Big Eva
In Trump, we have an imperfect ally who nevertheless has achieved crucial pro-life victories.
State
Who Rules in America Today?
A Review of Auron MacIntyre’s The Total State
Congress’ Antisemitism Bill is a Disaster
It is formally opposed to explicit biblical language, despite whatever its defenders claim.
The Nature of the American Regime
There is good reason then that the Right—along with increasing numbers of Americans—is distrustful of our public institutions.
Why Does America Have Religious Liberty?
It’s hard to imagine a more frivolous jurisprudence than one tied to an ahistorical reading of a few authors.
Self Accountable Government
Agencies increasingly are “laundering” executive branch policy into “‘unreviewable’ and ‘unchallengeable’ pieces.”