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What Exactly is Replacement Theology? And Is It Biblical?
Back when we lived in the Chicago area my wife listened to Moody Radio, and she told me how they often spoke disparagingly of something called Replacement Theology. I’ll never forget one time hearing Janet Parshall sneeringly say those words as if she was spitting out...
Back to America’s Providential View of History, the Present, and the Future
Since the Covid debacle what I call the Gutenberg Press of the 21st century, known as the Internet, has proved as transformational as the first Gutenberg Press of the 15th century. The latter was instrumental in allowing the Reformation to sweep like wildfire...
Christ and Culture Revisited
Way back in the mid-1980s when I was introduced to Reformed theology, my theological and intellectual mentor introduced me to an influential book I’d never heard of by H. Richard Niebuhr called, Christ and Culture. The Niebuhr brothers, Reinhold (1892–1971) and H....
Articles on Theology
The Real First Christmas
No, it wasn't Bethlehem and Mary and Joseph, baby Jesus and a manger, shepherds keeping watch by night, a choir of angels, a bright star or wise men from the east. Actually, that first Christmas was the fulfillment of something that came way before that, and if you...
More Thoughts on Mars Hill: There is Something New Under the Sun, the Church!
In my previous post on the dysfunction that was much of Mars Hill church, I focused on The Church being full of sinners, saved sinners, but sinners nonetheless. So to be surprised when "stuff" happens, and sinners act like sinners, is silly. Even a cursory look...
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill: Nothing New Under the Sun
Mars Hill was a phenomenon in the first decade or so of the century. The church grew, sprouted many campuses, and had an impact far and wide, driven by the intense and entertaining preacher who led it.
Articles on Explanatory Power
Apollo 8 and Our Privileged Planet
When I was eight years old the Apollo 8 astronauts took the first ever trip around the moon. The trip was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Moon, orbit it, and return. Even as an eight-year-old I...
Darwin Ain’t So Great After All
If you have ever had any kind of interaction with an atheist/materialist/skeptic, etc., one of the things they hang their hat on is that evolution is a "fact." Darwin was a genius, and only a benighted, troglodyte, imbecile would argue with the scientific "consensus."...
Why Is Homosexuality Unnatural in Addition to Sin?
Given this is ostensibly a blog about parenting, and that I soon have a book about parenting to be published, and we live in the 21st century, I can't escape commenting on homosexuality. As you know it is ubiquitous in our culture, and if you have children you won't...
Articles on Culture
There is Nothing as Seductively Secular as Frank
If you have to ask what Frank, stop reading right now. Anyone who lived in the 20th century, and raised their kids well in the 21st, should know that could only be the incomparable Sinatra, the Chairman of the Board. The other night my wife told some little intimate...
A Charlie Brown Christmas: Now More Than Ever!
As is our family Christmas tradition, we watched yet again the wonderful Charlie Brown Christmas special that first aired in 1965, when I was all of five years old.
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: It’s All About Me!
I'm not sure the title of a book can better capture our age than Philip Reiff's 1966 classic The Triumph of the Therapeutic, especially in the tumultuous 2020. The book is Reiff's take on Sigmund Freud, who he thought a genius, and the response of other psychoanalysts...
Articles on Apologetics
“None of the above” fastest-growing religion in the U.S. Ain’t No Such Thing as a None!
When I first came up with a title for my book four plus years ago I was going call it, Apologetics for Parents: How to keep your kids from becoming "Nones." Since most Christians don't know what apologetics is, or what "Nones" are, that wasn't ideal. Keeping our kids...
Korn’s Brian Welch Responds to his Critics-It Takes Revelation and Evidence
I wrote recently about a documentary of Korn guitarist Brian Welch's conversion to Christianity. He had a serious issue with drug addiction, even after his conversion, and some people are accusing him of replacing his addiction to drugs with an addiction to religion....
The Bible is an Historical Book, Not a Religious One!
I can't tell you how many moronic, absolutist, immature, know-it-all atheists I've come across in online comments sections who declare with absolute certitude that the Bible is all myths and fairy tales, full of metaphorical unicorns and other such unbelievable...
Articles on Parenting and Family
A Christian Case for the Necessity of Classical Education – Take 4: Why We Need It and Now
Classical education as I've described it in previous posts is the antidote to secular progressive education. Too many Christians think that if they add religious words and concepts onto the progressive education model, that will make all the difference. It's better...
A Christian Case for the Necessity of Classical Education – Take 3: What It Is
In my first post on classical education I explored modern progressive education, and why it's a disaster. In my second, I shared how I came to not only appreciate classical education, but have become an evangelist for it. Here I want to give a brief introduction to...
A Christian Case for the Necessity of Classical Education – Take 2: My Epiphany
In my previous post, Take 1, I didn't relate that I was late getting on the classical education bandwagon. I've always been a fan of the liberal arts, the humanities and such, but the term "classical education" meant little to me even into my 50th year. I was so...