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January 2021

January 13, 2021

Those Were the Days

Presbyterians and Puritans used to matter. Today, they rarely make the news. Baptists and Mormons...

December 2020

December 04, 2020

It’s Obvious What He’s Doing

David French doesn't want you to confuse him with evangelical Protestants who do not receive...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

Christian Freedom is Neither Blue nor Red

On Reformation Day, mentions of Martin Luther are legion. This post is not about Luther...

July 2019

July 12, 2019

Clarity on Presbyterian Combativeness

Some folks in the Reformed tradition do not care for the theological debates and divisions...

June 2019

June 27, 2019

Not “Who’s an Evangelical” but “Who’s a Presbyterian”

This is a follow-up to the previous post about the Presbyterian Church in America leaving...

June 07, 2019

Nicism

Just when Sohrab Ahmari's take down of David French-ism has almost expired, Jared Wilson decides...

May 2019

May 07, 2019

Jewish Americans and Presbyterian Theology

Some journalists who want to report on the connections between the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and...

May 03, 2019

Presbyterian Theology and Judaism Part One

Terry Mattingly asks journalists to keep digging deeper into the "Calvinist" theology that may have...

April 2019

April 03, 2019

Calvinists: The Worst of White People

Within a few days of each other, two authors decided to attribute to Reformed Protestants...

November 2018

November 14, 2018

When Pastors Won’t Stay in the Pocket

Once upon a time, Protestant congregations had pulpits. This was a form of church furniture,...

November 07, 2018

Birthright Citizenship is Presbyterian, Opposition is Baptist

Learned discussions of whether to grant citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents...

October 2018

October 04, 2018

Worship as Homeroom

A golden oldie from Recovering Mother Kirk: The strategy of many churches that want to...

August 2018

August 24, 2018

Second-Class Christians

This was one of the first times I've seen a recognition that Protestants are indeed...

June 2018

June 07, 2018

Reformed Does Not Equal Calvinist

One of the best features of Paul Schrader's new film, First Reformed, is that it...

May 2018

May 02, 2018

Coalition is not Communion

I just learned that I could list my congregation in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church at...

February 2018

February 09, 2018

Is Calvinism Un-American?

The reason for asking is that Reformed Protestants (the better name for Calvinism) don't believe...

December 2017

December 05, 2017

The Evangelical Narrative Will Not Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together

If you want to be an evangelical in America, you generally need to trace your...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

What Calvinism Solves

Does liberalism contain the seeds of its own destruction?

November 09, 2017

Whatever Happened to Doing All for the Glory of God — even Watching Movies?

I have been reading a surprising number of recent posts that raise questions about whether...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

Fed up With Evangelicalism, Try Calvinism

Let's give up evangelicalism. Let Protestant diversity be Protestant diversity.

August 2017

August 04, 2017

How Skeptics View Christianity

J. Gresham Machen was by most accounts a fundamentalist. In 1923 he wrote, Christianity and...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Calvinists and Muslims Together

Since first visiting Turkey six years ago and thinking about the relationship between Islam and...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

Shouldn’t Implicit Bias Make a View of the World Go Away

For the last three decades at least (thanks perhaps to Francis Schaeffer and Reformed Protestant...

June 02, 2017

Judge a Book by Its Cover (and don’t use Kindle)

Crawford Gribben's careful and thoughtful biography of John Owen is also an important contribution to...

May 2017

May 17, 2017

David Gushee Finally Agrees with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Gushee is only the most recent indication of evangelicalism's hollow identity.

April 2017

April 05, 2017

Calvinists Go to Heaven (not sure of everyone else)

Total depravity, the T in the infamous mnemonic, T-U-L-I-P, the so-called Five Points of Calvinism,...

February 2017

February 07, 2017

How Many Times Can the U.S. Lose Its Innocence?

One of my favorite books in grad school was Henry F. May's The End of...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

High Church Protestantism

You don't need to become an Anglican to have a high view of the visible...

September 23, 2016

Hell Is not (a problem) Reserved for Calvinists

Roger Olson shows some civility to Calvinists in a post about a t-shirt caption making...

September 07, 2016

Imagine What It’s Like to Be A Calvinist

Mary Eberstadt in her new book, It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies,...

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