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Christian Patriotism vs. Christian Nationalism
Christian Nationalism is a completely worthless phrase; worse, it’s a distortion. Most of the time people use it as a dishonest rhetorical device to discredit any Christian who believes nations must be Christian. The assumption of those using it, never discussed or...
The Transformational Nature of Faith
When most people hear the word faith they instantly think of religion. This is especially true in our secular age when it came to be assumed that faith is something religious people need, while those who are not religious do not. If we think about it for even a moment...
Protector, Provider, and Priest: The Foundations of Patriarchy
I believe in Patriarchy, and around our house I’m the boss. I mean, no one else in the house can even touch the clicker for I am The Master of the Clicker, and nothing says patriarchy more than that! Of course it’s pretty much just me and my wife now, so that’s easy....
Articles on Theology
What is Sin? The Key to Unlocking the Meaning of the Universe
That’s quite a claim for such a little word, but it’s a word that contains multitudes, a phrase coming from Walt Whitman’s famous poem, “Song of Myself,” in a collection called Leaves of Grass. It comes specifically from this passage which will make a good...
The Hound of Heaven and Sanctification
Whenever I tell my story, my testimony about God’s working in my life, I always use the great late 19th century poem by Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven. When I was first exposed to it many years ago, it captured my experience of God perfectly, and that was...
The Christian Life of Pursuit
Being a Christian is not just an ontological state, meaning what I am, my being, but also very much about what I do. It is the indicative, what God has done for us in Christ, and the imperative, what we must do. The Christian life is a verb, what we are commanded to...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Conversion: The Poverty of Atheism and an Eschatology of Hope
My next book, currently in the publishing process, has Great Awakening in the title. Those familiar with Western Christian history know that phrase refers to two periods of spiritual renewal and the spread of Evangelical Christianity in America and England. I believe...
On Never Tiring of the Moon
During the most recent full moon, and the nights around it, as I gazed upon its never-ending beauty a thought kept coming to mind: why do we never tire of looking at the moon? Why is it we marvel at its beauty, find it mysterious, and awe inspiring, in the literal...
Jordan Peterson Leaves Atheist Sam Harris SPEECHLESS on God!!!
Jordan Peterson has become one of the most effective apologists for Christianity in the 21st century. This is quite something to say about a man who has yet to embrace a version of Christianity we might consider orthodox. His wife is a strong Catholic Christian, and...
Articles on Culture
The Black Pill and the Psychology of Doomerism
Being active on Twitter, now X, has exposed me to the big population of Chicken Littles among us. I expect negativity and doom from the left; it’s built into every one of their little petty Marxist genes, but seeing it so widely on the right is terribly annoying. I’ve...
The “Nazi” Label as a Rhetorical Kill Switch and Cultural Marxism
The first part of this title came from a post I saw on Twitter by Joel Webbon, a pastor from Texas and leader on the dissident right, or New Christian Right, or whatever one calls that these days. Sadly, he was referring to other people on the right who use this “kill...
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 Apologetics
Developing an Attitude of Gratitude and the Atheist Dilemma
I recently saw an article that attracted me because of the title, “The Ingratitude of the Well-Fed.” The author, Maarten Boudry, explains what the piece is about in the subtitle: “We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed...
The Hiddenness of God and God Revealed
Ever since the French philosopher Voltaire in the 18th century, the existence of God has been debated, especially among cultural elites. There have been atheists throughout all cultures and times because life can be so absurd, but with the Enlightenment and the modern...
Christianity is Sociologically True: Personal and Societal Transformation
On Twitter recently I saw this short video of a young British Journalist, Louise Perry, explain why she became a Christian. In 2022 she published a book called, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, which indicates like many secularist liberals she had been mugged...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Epistemology and the Fall: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Knowledge is better than ignorance, knowing than not knowing, as you can appreciate when you see the pilot enter the cockpit on a flight you’re about to take. Or when you see the surgeon and medical professionals wheel a loved one into an operating room. Or let’s say...
The Difference Between Being a Parent and a Grandparent
I’ve thought about this a lot since we became grandparents over four years ago. As our kids were growing up and entering adulthood, I encountered people who had become grandparents tell us what’s great about being a grandparent is that you can enjoy your grandkids and...
AI and the Longing for The Real
I’ve heard the phrase Artificial Intelligence all of my boomer life. Grok says the phrase goes back to 1955 and a proposal some scientists put together to study the concept. This lead to the “Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence” in 1956 which...