The Media Scapegoat Catholicism for the Club Q Shooting
The Club Q shooting suspect appears to have no connection at all to the church.
Rather than suffering from overexposure to Catholicism, it seems he suffered from being raised in a dysfunctional household. One year after he was born, his parents separated, and at several points in his upbringing he lived away from his mother. Before his 16th birthday, he requested to change his name. Reports indicate that the shooter’s... Continue Reading
What it Means to be Confessional
To be a confessional church is to believe that the confessions bind us to one faith, uniting us to what we collectively confess with our mouth and believe in our heart about the Bible.
What does it mean to be a confessional church? It is not an attempt to go back to some golden age of past orthodoxy. The sixty-six books of the Bible span thousands of pages, and for centuries Christians have disagreed about what they believe the Bible says and means. Yet the confessions unify us in... Continue Reading
Want to Help the Youth? Equip the Parents
Parents’ primary mission field is to their own family. It is not their only mission field, but it is a God-given one.
Those who see their young people becoming believers and staying in the church are those who are clear on the need for young people to convert and who equip parents to take their responsibilities for teaching the gospel to their children seriously. The answer is not raising up godly young people through better youth work,... Continue Reading
Identity Politics on the Right
If there is in Christ no Jew or Gentile, then the racism of the right and of the left has no place in the church.
The tawdry Achord affair has revealed an ugly side to a certain part of the American Christian world. Real white supremacy really exists and is a real sin. It requires real action and real repentance from those Christians who espouse it. But in reacting to this, we need to be careful not to fall into... Continue Reading
A Progress Report on “Christian Nationalism”
The debate is hot as I predicted it would become in “Christian Nationalism – Dump the Term While We Still Can”
Ultimately, evangelism is our only hope. A Christian nation must come from the bottom up (the hearts of a converted people), not from the top down (political legislation). Neither will it come from heavy-weight books. America must be discipled again with the gospel before we can begin to think about being a Christian nation. Jesus... Continue Reading
Listen to Your Elders, Not the Experts
You don’t need a peer-reviewed study to know it’s a bad idea to give a five-year-old an iPhone.
It is not age-old wisdom, but credentialed expertise that engenders our trust nowadays. We take our cue not from grandpa and grandma and their advice of “a little bourbon on the gums,” but from experts in psychology and sociology penning peer-reviewed studies that tell us obvious, common-sense verities. Several years ago my wife and... Continue Reading
Against “Religious Liberty”
Unless properly defined, “religious liberty” opens the door to relativism and anarchy.
Conservative Christians, however, got it in their heads for decades that politics was about property rights and school vouchers; and now that we have wholly lost the public sphere, we frantically hide behind the protective sheet of “religious liberty,” now reconceived as a sphere of private self-expression, not realizing that this protective sheet turns out... Continue Reading
The Sword between the Sexes
The Decrease in Marriage Bodes Ill for the Country, and for Its People
Christians understand marriage to be an institution for a man and a woman, united to each other for better or worse and for the procreation and the raising of children. Marriage is also a covenant that signifies the mystical union between Christ and His Church. When fewer of our neighbors and fellow citizens enter into... Continue Reading
The Ravages of Cultural Termites
We live in a world of costless gestures—costless, that is, to those who make them.
When the house crumbles to dust because of the action of the termites, it is not because they desired such a denouement: it was, rather, a natural consequence of their conduct. The destruction wrought by the adherents of Woke ideology is a good deal more deliberate. In his great book titled Russia in 1839,... Continue Reading
The Most Passionate Science Deniers Are Pro-trans “Experts” Who Profit from Carving Up Kids
From medical associations to hospitals, countless people are in too deep to admit error, even as transgender ideology collapses.
These cranks and creeps have captured the establishment, from medicine to academia to the Democratic Party. And they intend to use their power to intimidate and silence critics. They do not care that their attempts are dishonest and incoherent…But try though they might, they cannot alter biological reality. They may live by the lie of... Continue Reading
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