Heidelcast 215: Behind The Scenes Of The Collapse Of The West

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on March 7, 2022

We are interrupting our series on prayer, Our Father, to air to a talk I gave yesterday to the Escondido URC Adult Sunday School class. We also got an interesting question on the Heideltext line about the nature of the presence of . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: The Sexual Revolution Will Be Televised

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on February 21, 2022 | 6 Comments

The appointment of Sam Brinton, a very public “queer” activist, to the U.S. Department of Energy is merely the latest sign of decadence in the dying culture of the West. Brinton, a man of such exotic and public perversions that I cannot . . . Continue reading →

Bob Godfrey: What’s Going On Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, And Power (11)—Marxism

R. Scott Clark

on February 17, 2022 | 1 Comment

In this session, Bob Godfrey turns his attention to the effect of Marxism upon Modernity. Today few people believe in hell. Under Christendom (as he has been defining it) a much larger percentage of people would have said that they believed in . . . Continue reading →

Bob Godfrey: What’s Going On Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, And Power (10)—The Darwin Effect

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on February 10, 2022 | 1 Comment

In this session, Bob Godfrey turns his attention to the effect of Darwin’s theory. You might think of it chiefly as a scientific theory but it did not remain confined to science (e.g., origin of the species etc). Darwin’s theory occurred in . . . Continue reading →

Bob Godfrey: What’s Going On Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, And Power (9) With Bonus Audio

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on February 9, 2022 | 1 Comment

In his next session, Bob Godfrey resumes his talks on what happened to Christendom and how the church should adapt to a post-Christian world. In this series Bob seeks to understand why this contemporary world seems so strange. In this session he . . . Continue reading →

An Interesting Biographical Note On One Man’s Exodus From The TheoRecon Movement

R. Scott Clark

on February 2, 2022 | 7 Comments

Jacob Aitken, sometime author at the HB, left the TheoRecon movement. What is that? TheoRecon is a shorthand word I coined (as far as I know) for the theonomic-Christian reconstruction movement. Now you know why I use TheoRecon instead. Short story: the movement . . . Continue reading →

A Pastor’s Plea: Let The Church Help You Think Through Difficult Issues

R. Scott Clark

on January 7, 2022 | 4 Comments

Introduction Americans are an independent lot. In the secular sphere (e.g., politics and economics) that can be an admirable quality which contributes mightily to freedom and prosperity. In the sacred sphere (e.g., in the life of the church, in our spiritual and . . . Continue reading →

Does The End Of Christendom Mean The Rise Of Neo-Paganism?

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on December 29, 2021 | 1 Comment

This year, at the height of what used to be called the Christmas season, a Pew Research Center poll on religion revealed that only slightly more Americans described themselves as Roman Catholics (21 percent) than as believers in “nothing in particular” (20 . . . Continue reading →

W. Robert Godrey: “What’s Going on Right Now: Sex, Race, Politics, & Power” (8)

R. Scott Clark

on December 23, 2021 | 2 Comments

This is the eighth session of Bob Godfrey’s Adult Sunday School series at the Escondido URC. In this session he discusses the dramatic changes in American culture in the last few years wherein America has abandoned Christendom, a way of looking at . . . Continue reading →

Of Christians And Rights

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on December 19, 2021 | 20 Comments

One of the crucial questions in our current moment of governmental overreaches has to do with how we understand our rights as Christians living in this world. Many of our current discussions evidence a great misunderstanding of our calling as believers in . . . Continue reading →

What’s Going on Right Now: Sex, Race, Politics, & Power with W Robert Godfrey (7)

R. Scott Clark

on December 16, 2021

This is the seventh session of Bob Godfrey’s Adult Sunday School series at the Escondido URC. In this session he explores the challenges faced by Christendom due to the Enlightenment and how it took shape in America. He argues that Christianity as . . . Continue reading →

What’s Going on Right Now: Sex, Race, Politics, & Power with Dr. W Robert Godfrey (6)

R. Scott Clark

on December 11, 2021 | 10 Comments

In the sixth session of Bob Godfrey’s Sunday school class at the Escondido URC, he traces the effects of the Enlightenment upon the West. Drawing upon Carl Becker’s work he highlights four key tenets of the movement: (1) that man is not natively . . . Continue reading →

Straight Talk About Homophobia

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2021 | 8 Comments

In just a few short years the noun Homophobia has become one of the most powerful words in the English language. It has an interesting, if brief, history. It was derived from the combination of two Greek loan words brought into English, . . . Continue reading →

Pew Poll: Christendom Lives In The Hearts Of Many Americans

R. Scott Clark

on December 3, 2021 | 5 Comments

On October 28, 2021 The Pew Research Center published another of their fascinating and illuminating polls. This one surveyed the attitudes of Americans on the relations between church and state. For our international readers the USA has a written constitution (other nations . . . Continue reading →

What’s Going on Right Now: Sex, Race, Politics, & Power with Dr. W Robert Godfrey (5)

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2021

In this fifth session of Dr. Godfrey’s Sunday school class at the Escondido URC, he traces the long period of challenges to Christendom within Christendom, and the rise of the Enlightenment, which thought Christianity to be too focused on the world to come, . . . Continue reading →

With Back To The Reformation Podcast Taking About Politics And The Church

R. Scott Clark

on November 24, 2021 | 1 Comment

The question of how Christians should relate Christ (i.e., their allegiance to Christ and the Christian faith) to culture is perhaps the most pressing challenge facing the Christians individually and the institutional, visible church. A subset of this question touches on how . . . Continue reading →

An Unusually Thoughtful Podcast: Presbycast On When Church Became Theatre

R. Scott Clark

on November 20, 2021 | 1 Comment

The Presbycast is one of my favorite podcasts and Harrison Perkins, a regular contributor to the Heidelblog, is one of my favorite writers and, in this episode, like Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, the two come together: They are discussing Jeanne Halgren Kilde’s . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: Nietzsche Was Prescient

R. Scott Clark

on November 16, 2021 | 2 Comments

While many on the right default to accusations of cultural Marxism when confronted with such iconoclasm, I would argue that this latest trend is reminiscent of nothing so much as Friedrich Nietzsche’s haunting statement in Twilight of the Idols: “I fear we . . . Continue reading →

Is This The Language Of Science Or Religion?

R. Scott Clark

on November 12, 2021 | 9 Comments

My kids got their COVID-19 shots yesterday. When my husband brought them home from Walgreens, he described it as a moment that felt sort of… holy. Parents were catching each other’s eyes, tearing up. Pharmacy employees exclaiming, ‘Congratulations!’ After so much hardship, . . . Continue reading →

Part 4: What’s Going On Right Now: Sex, Race, Politics, and Power with Dr. W Robert Godfrey

R. Scott Clark

on November 11, 2021 | 1 Comment

In this fourth session of Bob’s Sunday school class at the Escondido URC, he explains what led to the collapse of Christendom. It began with Luther at Worms, in 1521. In his famous speech he presented a choice: to maintain Christendom, the powerful . . . Continue reading →

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