Since becoming a pastor I’ve been convinced that one of my most important responsibilities it to preach and pray in a way that prepares people to suffer for the glory of God. Suffering – which is a wide and broad biblical category . . . Continue reading →
Civil Life
Memorial Day 2021: The Heidelcast Remembers (A Mini-cast)
Stayed tuned for episode 183 tomorrow, Dv. ©R. Scott Clark. All Rights Reserved. All the Episodes of the Heidelcast. How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia On Twitter @Heidelcast How To Support Heidelmedia: use the donate button below All the episodes in this series, . . . Continue reading →
Memorial Day 2021: We Remember
Suicide By Theocracy
If American evangelicalism dies, suicide will be the cause of death listed on the official Coroner’s report. American evangelicalism will likely not die due to external persecution. Historically, persecution tends to strengthen the church. If it dies, it will die because it . . . Continue reading →
New Resource Page: On Covid And Religious Liberty
The Covid crisis has been one of the greater challenges faced by the church in the West in recent years. In the USA and elsewhere it has divided congregations and probed weaknesses in our theology, piety, and practice. It has raised questions . . . Continue reading →
Take That Amazon
It Is Not As Easy As It Looks
Everyone else’s job, the job that you and I are not doing, always seems easy. Continue reading
Understanding Our Brave New World
The “narrative” (as people say) and the algorithm are real. Continue reading
British Christians Object To Vaccine Passports
Dear Prime Minister, As Christian leaders across a range of denominations, we continue to pray at this time for your government “and all in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity” (1 . . . Continue reading →
How The Tide Is Shifting (And Not In A Good Way)
As I mentioned in the latest episode of the Heidelcast, I am not a big fan of Oral Roberts (1918–2009). Please do not misunderstand me. He is a great American success story. Born in poverty, in Oklahoma, he helped to impel a . . . Continue reading →
Everything An American Constitutionalist Needs To Know About The “Equality Act” In One Sentence
“As written, the act would Continue reading
What If Big Social Media Told You What They Have Planned For You?
Language caution: the subject of the interview makes a scatalogical reference. Resources How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia How To Make the Coffer Clink: Use the Donate Button Below This Post Heidelblog Resources The HB Media Archive Time To Learn (Or Relearn) How . . . Continue reading →
Documentary: Chicago BLM Crushes Congregation And Deli Over LGBTQ Agenda
Editor’s Note: This video was produced by a group of people involved in a successful Chicago deli and a congregation with roots in the Assemblies of God tradition. It is posted here to document the agenda of the BLM organization. Caution: this documentary features footage of BLM protests, including graphic language. Continue reading →
Trueman: A New Pastoral Problem
ast week, a pastor friend told me about a new problem he is facing in his congregation. I hesitate to call it a “first world pastoral problem” because that runs the risk of trivializing it, of making it seem akin to those . . . Continue reading →
Religious Liberty Watch: SCOTUS Affirms 6–3 “South Bay” vs. Ninth Circuit
Application (20A138) granted by the Court. The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted pending disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition . . . Continue reading →
What The Biden Administration’s “Equality Act” Would Do
Witness the so-called Equality Act, which candidate Biden vowed to make a priority and which is set to be voted on by the House this week. What’s the Equality Act? And who could be against equality? Don’t let the name fool you. . . . Continue reading →
In A Shocking About Face Some Americans Want To Go Back To The Pre-Civil Rights Era
I ask that Smith College stop reducing my personhood to a racial category. Stop telling me what I must think and feel about myself. Stop presuming to know who I am or what my culture is based upon my skin color. Stop . . . Continue reading →
Religious Freedom Watch: SCOTUS Rules On South Bay UPC v Newsom
The application for injunctive relief presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted in part. Respondents are enjoined from enforcing the Blueprint’s Tier 1 prohibition on indoor worship services against the applicants pending disposition of the petition . . . Continue reading →
Religious Freedom Watch: Federal District Court Upholds Religious Liberty For Physicians Against Obamacare Rule
In these consolidated cases, a coalition of entities affiliated with the Catholic Church and the State of North Dakota challenge the implementation of Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), a statute that prohibits certain forms of discrimination . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast 172: With D. G. Hart On American Catholic: The Politics Of Faith During The Cold War (Updated)
What can confessional Presbyterian and Reformed folk learn from the history of Roman Catholicism in America? Quite a lot as it turns out. We are continuing our brief hiatus from the series, As It Was In The Days of Noah to talk with . . . Continue reading →