The Mainline Question
If the mainline churches are not legitimate heirs to their tradition, then there is no viable path to saving them from themselves.
Latest Articles
Neo-Calvinism and American Decline
Adoption by American evangelicals of Neo-Calvinism as a cohesive worldview from the Netherlands would be a grave mistake.
Church
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 […]
The Westminster Tradition vs. DeYoung and the Gospel Coalition, Part V
The Finale of a Series on Westminster Chapter 23 and a Response to Kevin DeYoung
The Westminster Tradition vs. DeYoung and the Gospel Coalition, Part IV
A Series on Westminster Chapter 23 and a Response to Kevin DeYoung
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Why Outdated Frameworks Can’t Advance Christian Higher Education Leaders in Christian higher education must constantly wrestle with one fundamental question: […]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
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
Fathers, Families, and the Republic
Fathers are the Key to all Government
Hume on Marriage
Marriage is Much More than a Mere Contract
Forum
Are We the Bad Guys?
Reflections on Churchill
Apostate Christian Anti-Nationalism
Hypocrisy and Projection It is all the rage for radical leftist professors to scream and cry about the impending terrors […]
My Friends, the Once and Future Kings of Capital
The Protestant Drive to Give a Better Life to All Across the table at breakfast is a friendly billionaire. This […]
A Threat to Law & Order
Oklahoma Visa Task Force Recommendations Must Be Rejected
We Need Dissenting Academies
A Call for Nonconformity In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, England had two universities, Oxford and Cambridge. Both admitted only […]
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
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 […]
The Right of the Magistrate Regarding Sacred Matters
A Translation of Johann Heinrich Schweizer
Chapter 13 to the Romans
A Translation of David Pareus’ Commentary on Romans
Society
Classically Protestant Politics Today
Christianity and Politics XII: On Entering the Political Arena
Avoiding Assassination, Round Two
The Left’s War on Donald Trump Continues The assassination attempts on Donald Trump are starting to pile up. On Sunday, […]
A Man For Our Times
A Review of Civilian Warriors by Erik Prince
The Bugenhagen Option
Yet Another Option from a Forgotten Reformer Editor’s note: this paper was presented at the Pacific Northwest regional meeting of […]
Marvin Olasky’s Capitulation to the Left
Evangelical Elite Thinking on Abortion Must Be Rejected One of the most striking chapters in Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale […]
State
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
Bad Judicial Medicine
If Democracy Needs Saving, this is the Sort of Medicine that will Kill the Patient
Early American Immigration Law & Policy, 1790-1802
How Did Early Americans Treat Immigration?