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Evangelicals and Their Ambivalence to God’s Law
I’m currently reading Greg Bahsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics, an extensive study about God’s law (theos-nomos) as it applies to ethics, the study of the principles of right and wrong conduct. We Evangelicals tend to have a love/hate relationship to God’s law. On...
Is the Phrase Christian Nation an Oxymoron?
Unfortunately, most of the modern conservative movement thinks so, including one of the most respected men in my conservative world, Hillsdale college President Larry Arnn. He said exactly this in a discussion on his podcast. Ironically, the title of the episode is,...
The Therapeutic Nation: It’s All About Parents
I promote my books as much as I can because I’m a nobody with no platform to speak of, so if I don’t do it, no one else will. Yes, I know, ontologically before God I am not a “nobody,” but you know what I mean. Getting attention without “a name” isn’t easy. I feel...
Articles on Theology
Calvinism and Free Will
One of the more frustrating things about being a Calvinist is the rampant misunderstanding about Calvin and his theology one encounters pretty much everywhere. Even among some of his followers! The old canard is the Calvinism equals determinism, but nothing could be...
The Gospel: Good News That God is Favorably Disposed Toward Us, Always!
I believe most Christians go through life with a sense of low-grade guilt because they don't really understand the gospel. The reason I say this is that I myself was this kind of Christian for many years of my adult life because I didn't either. What changed? You'll...
Why I Am A Paedobaptist, or Why We Baptize Children
Whenever I have put the word paedobaptist in Google, the first article linked is "Why I Am Not a Paedobaptist" by Tim Challies. One day maybe my little post here will come up high on such a search so people interested in the subject can get a competing argument,...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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Articles on Culture
FX’s The Americans: Everyone Lives by Faith
The FX show The Americans is set in the Reagan era Cold War 80s. Two Soviet intelligence agents, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, pose as a married couple to spy on the American government. They didn't know each other prior to meeting in America, and are tasked with...
Are Millennials The Most Narcissistic Generation Ever?
In my previous post I wrote about the word of the year, "post-truth," and how the triumph of the subjective makes assertions of Christianity as true, or anything as true for that matter (outside of scientific claims), problematic for many of our neighbors. The...
The 4 Horsemen of the Philosophical Apocalypse
I saw this title at the Intellectual Takeout website, and was instantly curious. Two of the first three chapters of my book are on truth and epistemology, so I'm a big believer that philosophy is not exactly tangential to keeping our kids Christian. Most Americans,...
Articles on Apologetics
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