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2025-09-02T11:54:05-04:00

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Does God Actually Love Us?

Last updated on: September 2, 2025 at 11:54 am By Eric Scot English

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It is perhaps the most clichéd idiom in all Christianity: “God loves you”. It can often be heard uttered to non-believers as part of a larger presentation of the Gospel and to believers as an encouraging platitude. Outside of these instances, how much is really known about the love of God? To begin to understand this, we should ask a more generic question: How does someone know when they have been loved? Is it through language? Is it through gifts... Read more

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2025-09-20T19:29:50-04:00

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Trump’s America or Constantine’s Rome?

Last updated on: September 20, 2025 at 7:29 pm By Eric Scot English

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Throughout the process of researching for the Kingdom of Man, I was surprised by just how little has changed throughout recent church history. For whatever reason, we seem to never learn from the mistakes of our past, making the axiom that there is “nothing new under the sun” fairly accurate. Although this fact is quite depressing, it does raise some interesting questions. When people refuse to learn from the past, there are usually a few possibilities: Ignorance is bliss. Perhaps... Read more

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2025-07-03T12:30:13-04:00

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Are Christian Nationalists Behind our Involvement with Iran?

Last updated on: July 3, 2025 at 12:30 pm By Eric Scot English

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In the Kingdom of Man, I stated unequivocally that untrained conservative evangelicals (politicians and other lay leaders) are working harder than ever to usher in the end times. I demonstrated how evangelical theology, particularly the development of dispensationalism, has influenced this belief. I demonstrated how these leaders use the Old Testament promises made to Israel by God as proof texts for the idea that America will be blessed by following God. Basically, bad hermeneutics + dispensationalism = our current situation.... Read more

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2025-06-05T11:41:57-04:00

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Taking the Bible and Social Justice Seriously

Last updated on: June 5, 2025 at 11:41 am By Eric Scot English

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We live in a world of extremes. Oftentimes, when people feel religiously threatened or afraid, they tend to take comfort in dogma because it provides security. This is not just true of those who lean more conservative, but it also affects liberals as well. And when people become comfortable with their dogma, it can turn into fundamentalism. In contrast to what most people think, fundamentalism is not just a trap that conservatives can fall into, but liberals as well. Intolerance... Read more

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2025-05-05T12:59:16-04:00

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Are You A Saul Or Paul: The False Self

Last updated on: May 5, 2025 at 12:59 pm By Eric Scot English

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In the Kingdom of Man, I argued that one of the most significant factors contributing to the turn towards white Christian Nationalism within conservative Evangelicalism is its foundation in Christian Idealism. Essentially, theologians became swept up in the philosophical idealism that was inherited from Hegel and other idealists. When applied to theology, it attempted to construct a belief system that imagined God as one who could never escape the dialectic of human perception. Ultimately, this presented Christianity in terms of... Read more

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2025-03-29T11:57:54-04:00

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Kierkegaard Denied Being a Christian and so should We.

Last updated on: March 29, 2025 at 11:57 am By Eric Scot English

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To be a Christian, You Must First Deny It Around the mid-19th Century in Denmark, it was well-known that Soren Kierkegaard was not a “Christian” – he had made that almost annoyingly clear. This, despite the fact that he was also well known for his writings on Christianity. Kierkegaard remained steadfast in this assertion until he died in 1855. Needless to say, this frustrated the academic elite and church leaders of his generation because while he was denying being a... Read more

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2025-02-28T13:55:10-05:00

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When Conservative Ideologies Collide: Wilson v. White

Last updated on: February 28, 2025 at 1:55 pm By Eric Scot English

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It was only a matter of time before we were going to see conservative ideologies collide. In fact, I am surprised that something like this has not happened already. If you have spent any time in conservative circles, you are well aware at how quickly divisions can form. Dispensationalists against Calvinists; Lutherans against Catholics; and everyone against Pentecostals. This was something that Donald Trump was apparently unaware of when he appointed Paula White-Cain to head up the faith department. Not... Read more

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2025-01-20T11:26:31-05:00

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Donald Trump and the Kingdom of Man

Last updated on: January 20, 2025 at 11:26 am By Eric Scot English

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On November 6th, I received a message from a friend who was distraught over the election results from the previous night. Her concerns were not the typical feelings that accompany someone whose candidate lost. Instead, there was an unexpected deepness to her sadness – a hopelessness. I hesitated at the melodrama but there were others. Across my social media feeds were countless people demonstrating the same type of despair as my friend. I had been telling many of these people... Read more

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2024-10-29T10:36:42-04:00

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Will Evangelicals Vote Donald Trump Again?

Last updated on: October 29, 2024 at 10:36 am By Eric Scot English

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I hate writing about politics. However, the upcoming Presidential election is one of the most important of our generation. The election is not only an important cultural event but could also serve as an important turning point for evangelicals. Evangelicals will have yet another opportunity to right the wrong of the previous two elections. But the question remains, will they? I consider myself an Independent. In the past, I have voted for both parties. And, for the most part, I... Read more

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2024-09-24T12:17:31-04:00

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Fun with Philosophy: Philosophical Fragments

Last updated on: September 24, 2024 at 12:17 pm By Eric Scot English

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I don’t know if other philosophers lay up at night thinking deeply about mundane things but such has been my plight since I was a boy. This was, in part, why I decided to study philosophy in Graduate school. Many who study philosophy do so because they desire answers to life’s biggest questions. But for me, it was always about how to ask the right questions. It was in learning to ask those questions that got me to understand... Read more

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