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March 2021

March 17, 2021

Vaccine Mandates and the Common Good

Ever since vaccination was deemed the path to salvation (i.e., return to "normalcy") amidst the...

March 16, 2021

Common Mercy v. Common Grace

Evangelicals love to talk about "common grace." Some recent examples from some Big Eva big...

March 04, 2021

Confessions on the Pride of Expertise

I've been tweeting some snarky things about the cult of "expertise" in academia, the proclivity...

January 2021

January 28, 2021

Christian Prudence in a Hostile Regime

Kenneth Craycraft's analysis over at First Things of the likely-to-be-passed Equality Act paints a grim...

December 2020

December 14, 2020

Getting Real About Critical Race Theory: A Response to Rob Vischer

Last week, over at the Catholic legal theory blog, Mirror of Justice (which posts...

December 11, 2020

(Un)Masking the Conscience

I don't get worked up about much. I think the pandemic is serious—the latest numbers...

November 2020

November 02, 2020

Only One Party Threatens the Constitutional Order

"Today, Monday October 26, 2020, will go down as one of the darkest days in...

October 2020

October 29, 2020

Data Is Still Dead. Watch What Matters

I am not a Donald Trump acolyte. I am ambivalent. I have the evidently antiquated...

October 17, 2020

The Shocking Necessity of Not Reading Christianity Today

Three days ago, Bari Weiss published a simply phenomenal article at Tablet, where she is...

October 09, 2020

A Model Conversation: Jonathan Leeman’s Rebuttal

The aim of argument is differing in order to agree; the failure of argument...

October 07, 2020

On Co-Belligerence and Critical Race Theory

Jonathan Leeman was recently on the Defend and Confirm podcast. The guys (Sean DeMars and...

October 03, 2020

Weekend Miscellanies: Hypocrisy, Matthew 18, and the SBC

This is the beginning of a new series here at TCC. On the weekends...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

Critical Race Theory is Not a Fad

In an article last week at The Federalist, Lewis Andrews argued that, as the headline...

September 05, 2020

Roger Scruton’s Religion

Last week I took some live notes during the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation webinar, which...

August 2020

August 30, 2020

Critical Social Justice, Black Lives Matter, and Christian Missions

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how the logic of critical ideologies (Postcolonial...

August 26, 2020

Live Notes on the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation Webinar

Kimball: Scruton's highest vocation was a teacher and mentor. He understood as Socrates understood, how...

August 25, 2020

Chaos Creates Conservatives

It feels like ages ago, but just this past January, the preeminent conservative philosopher and...

August 24, 2020

Social Justice, Hermeneutics, and Impending Denominational Splits

I've written before about how, like the United Methodist Church, the Southern Baptist Convention is...

August 13, 2020

The ‘Critical’ Threat of Missions

Alex Kocman (Director of Advancement and Mobilization at ABWE), writing at Founders, has issued a...

July 2020

July 31, 2020

MacArthur v. Leeman: Part 2

In Part 1 of this series I argued that the recent Calvary Chapel and...

July 28, 2020

MacArthur v. Leeman: Part 1

Introduction This past Sunday, John MacArthur and Grace Community Church (GCC) assembled together, in...

July 21, 2020

What Wokeness Does to Friendships

The Cut recently ran a very long, shall we say, confession, called, "There's a Divide...

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