On Baptists: Some Thoughts
…visibly apostatizing. The one thing that I stumble over in mainstream Baptist and Bible Churches [In my view, a ‘Bible Church’ is Baptist configured for Presbyterian social tastes] is this:…
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If You Don’t Like Evangelicals, Don’t Blame the South
…returns. Silicon Valley had its Peninsula Bible church in the 1970s, that initially planted Orange County’s Mariners Church. The reigning church in Silicon Valley now is supposed to be Menlo…
The Political Mistake I Think I Made
…going to jail for miscarriages! But I must admit that I think if someone openly advocates for abortion ‘rights’ it would be proper for the church to discipline them. Euthanasia…
Called to Be Friends
…Have to be Libertarian to Believe (2019) Romans 14 and the Political Divisions of the Church (2018) What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me (2018) The Theonomization of Anabaptism (2018) An Addendum…
Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’
…groups. There is only the international, multicultural Church, the Bride of Christ. However, the laws and rulers of a nation, and the customs of a culture, even without any covenant,…
Bringing Back the Great Commission?
…Among my generation, [yes, those Boomers] that seems still to be the prevailing view. But the so-called Generation X, born 1961-1980, has taken over most of the church and moved…
Was It Early Medieval Catholic Family Law That Made the Western World Unique?
Joseph Henrich argues that the Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic world got its uniqueness from family codes imposed by the Church in the Early Middle Ages. The key parts…
Timothy Snyder on the History Behind the Ukraine War
…known as the ‘Russian’ language. [Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian differ from each other about as much as German, Dutch, and Swiss. The liturgical language of the church, or what you…
Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer
…establishment of our society or the bourgeois establishment of the Evangelical churches. I was saddened to learn about the death last summer of the Evangelical Christian activist and author Ron…
What Can We Do About Polarization?
…a minority of people. It has somewhat of an obligation in this regard, because some portions of the church have fallen to the heretical gospels of ‘Trumpism’ and ‘Christian Nationalism’,…