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Does America Have a Judeo-Christian Heritage?
Since I started getting active on Twitter in early 2024, I’ve come across many on the New Christian Right, or whatever we might be called, who are not fans of the phrase Judeo-Christian, to say the least. It upsets them because it seems to make Christianity a part of...
The Christian Nation and the Westphalian Nation-State
If you want to create some consternation among some “right thinking” people just use the phrase Christian nationalism, or God forbid, say you are a Christian nationalist. You’ll be branded as either a white supremacist by leftists, or a Theonomist by conservatives....
Christian Western Civilization Should Have Never Happened
From a merely human perspective Christian Western civilization shouldn’t have happened. The odds of a ragtag crew of manual laborers in a small corner of the Roman Empire eventually turning the world upside down, or should we say right side up, were as close to zero...
Articles on Theology
Thoughts on Dying: RIP Rush
I was going to write something on the dying of conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, and before I got to that I listened to this interview from the Dallas Theological Seminary’s The Table podcast about embracing our mortality.
Every Birth is as Miraculous as the Virgin’s Birth
Since this is Christmas, and we’re focused on the miraculous birth of a baby over 2,000 years ago, a baby who would be the Savior of the world, I thought it an opportunity to broaden our focus on the one who made that birth possible.
When All Doesn’t Mean All: Calvinism Gets it Right
I recently wrote a post on I Timothy 2, where Paul says something that is a favorite proof text for Arminians, but they ignore the difficulty the text presents for their position. Reformed theology has been a critical part of attempting to build an enduring faith in...
Articles on Explanatory Power
When In Doubt: Is This All Really A Grand Cosmic Coincidence?
In my previous post I argued that secular Western culture often makes belief in God problematic. For those who go with the secular cultural flow, instead of continually challenging and fighting it, God can seem less than real, less plausible. This has nothing to do...
Nabeel Qureshi, RIP
Death is ugly. Jesus himself agreed, as we can surmise from his response to the death of his friend Lazarus. Standing before the tomb where his dead friend had been buried four days Scripture says, "Jesus wept." Why in the world would Jesus cry when in moments he was...
Of Course the Solar Eclipse is an Act of God, But So Is Everything Else!
In case you've been in a cave somewhere without this Internet thing, or access to any TV, Radio, the regular or short wave kind, you likely know there is going to be a total solar eclipse tomorrow across much of America. This doesn't happen very often so it's kind of...
Articles on Culture
40 Days for Life: Don’t Eat the Babies, Save the Babies!!!
In case you are not aware where "Eat the babies" came from, watch this priceless satire of the leftists' absurd obsession with "climate change": The woman was a plant at an AOC townhall, and she appears distraught at the "three months" we have before "climate change"...
Classical Education: Opportunity to Challenge The Religion of Secularism
We were all taught growing up that there is this thing called the separation of church and state. The phrase goes back to a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptists (CT) in 1802 where he mentions a wall between the two. This metaphor of Jefferson was...
What Parents and their Children Can Learn from the Train Wreck of Amy Winehouse’s Life
If you're at all familiar with popular music in the last decade or two you surely know of Amy Winehouse. This young talent died of alcohol poisoning in July of 2011 at the ripe old age of 27, joining the pantheon of young musicians who've died before they got old. My...
Articles on Apologetics
Not Made Up Stories: That we may know the certainty of the things we have been taught
In addition to writing here at The Persuasive Christian Parent, several years ago I started writing my way through the Bible. I gave that blog the uninspiring title of, My Walk Through the Bible. Recently I finished the gospel of Mark and moved on to Luke. As I was...
Do Your Children a Favor: Watch “Brad’s Status” with Them
I'd never heard of this movie with Ben Stiller until a few days ago, and when I read the premise and learned it was on Amazon Prime I figured we'd give it a go. Brad's Status is about a 50-something middle class man watching his only son explore college, Harvard no...
Secularism: To Believe Otherwise
That we live in a secular age there can be no doubt. I've attacked secularism as a paper tiger (actually, Berlin Wall) in a number of posts, which is why I looked forward to reading James K.A. Smith's How (Not) To be Secular. (It's a book about a book, Charles...
Articles on Parenting and Family
The Growth of the “Nones” Is No Threat to Our Kids Faith
The title of a recent piece at Scientific American tells us the "Nones" juggernaut continues: College Freshmen Are Less Religious Than Ever: Data from a nationwide survey shows students who list their affiliation as "none" has skyrocketed "Nones" are people who when...
Hey, Bill Nye, Fake Science Guy, There Are No “Extra Kids”
Who is this Bill Nye guy anyway? I only became aware of him recently, but it seems he's a popular "science educator." He got his moniker, "Bill Nye the Science Guy" from a PBS children's science show in the 90s, and we know that anything that has the word "science"...
God To His Exiles, Strangers in a Strange Land – Do Not Decrease!
In my previous post I made the argument that, for Christians, having children is not an option. Just this morning I was reading Jeremiah and discovered God actually agrees with me! I'll admit, though, that I did get the idea from him first. The book of Jeremiah is a...