These were the top five posts for the week of September 28–October 4, 2026. Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 28–October 4, 2026
Calvin: We Find Our Assurance In Christ And His Promises
Now he gave us that sure communion with himself, when he testified through the preaching of the gospel that he had been given to us by the Father to be ours with all his benefits [Rom. 8:32]. We are said to put . . . Continue reading →
Trueman On The Tyranny Of The Sexual Revolution
Critical theorist Max Horkheimer, who co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Theodor Adorno, would go on to repudiate the sexual revolution. In an interview in the late 1960s, he expressed support for the encyclical Humanae Vitae, arguing that contraception, and the sexual revolution . . . Continue reading →
Video: Selling Jesus—Why Witnessing Isn’t a Sales Pitch (Part 2)
On this episode of Abounding Grace Radio (AGR), Rev. Chris Gordon welcomes Dr. R. Scott Clark to talk about what faithful witness looks like for ordinary Christians. They begin with the story of a gang member who walked into a church elders . . . Continue reading →
Morabito On The Soulless Machinery That Isolates Us From One Another
Consider a few questions. In terms of the effect on the human psyche, how different is the playground taught of “cooties” to cancel culture? How different from Big Tech’s efforts to spear and deplatform the “unwoke”? How different from being supervised by . . . Continue reading →
Your Church Lectern Is Not A Reformation Pulpit
Initially reformers focused on the furniture, replacing the central altar with a pulpit as the locus of significance. The protestant pulpit of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—huge, intricately carved, and looming high above the main floor of the church—improved hearing and served . . . Continue reading →
Christians Have Always Been “Strangers And Aliens”
Smith, argues that within the pagan “matrix of assumptions, the Christian view of sexuality was not only radically alien, it was close to incomprehensible.” About this he is certainly right historically. But consider that the Christian view of sexuality is today, within . . . Continue reading →
Andrews: The Root Of Campus Fanaticism Is Money
Paglia was also a more acute critic than Bloom, because she realized that the so-called tenured radicals were not really radicals at all but apple polishing class president types, or else plain hucksters. All the real radicals had flamed out on drugs . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 21–27, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of September 21–27, 2026. Continue reading →
Nazism Was An Alternative Religion
While it was a remark [about the Jehovah’s Witnesses] that illustrated how much the leadership of the SS understood that they were running a faith-based organization, it also brought to the surface a fundamental problem Himmler faced in constructing the mentality required . . . Continue reading →
Haidt On The Advent Of The Phone-Based Childhood
The opening of smartphones to third-party apps led to fierce competition among companies large and small to create the most engaging mobile apps. The winners of this race were often those that adopted free-to-to-use, advertising-based business models because few consumers would pay . . . Continue reading →
Video: Selling Jesus—Why Witnessing Isn’t a Sales Pitch
Why do Reformed Christians get a reputation for being bad at evangelism? Dr. R. Scott Clark, who once taught Evangelism Explosion, joins Rev. Chris Gordon to talk honestly about the pressure tactics he learned as a young Southern Baptist, why he came . . . Continue reading →
Christian Nationalism Is Still Cosplay
But if we are absolutely no closer in 2026 to enacting anything resembling a Christian nationalist agenda, it is hard to see the conversation as little more than an unnecessary distraction at this point. Not that Christians engaging in politics is a . . . Continue reading →
Trueman On Trinity, Sola Scriptura, And Tradition
The twentieth-century Reformation scholar Heiko Oberman makes a very helpful distinction between what he calls “Tradition One” and “Tradition Two.” He claims that you cannot read the Reformation as a blanket rejection of tradition, because there are different kinds of tradition. Tradition . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 14–20, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of September 7–13, 2026. Continue reading →
C. Fitzsimmons Allison On The Anglo-Catholic Doctrine Of Justification
The irony is that the commendable concern by Anglo-Catholics for Christology and Trinity is creedally and coherently dependent upon justification by faith but that doctrine has largely been scorned. When I first arrived at Oxford, I was interviewed by the Anglo-Catholic Chaplain . . . Continue reading →
Kinism, Racism, And Ethnonationalism Is A Spiritual Problem
Conservatives spent sixty years arguing that the family and the local community, not the state, should decide what the good life looks like. The socialist left rejected that because it loves the collective. The postliberal right now rejects it because it is . . . Continue reading →
Video: Do vs. Done—The Law/Gospel Distinction with Dr. R. Scott Clark (Part 1)
A recent online critique of “law and gospel preaching” prompted this conversation between Pastor Chris Gordon and Dr. R. Scott Clark. Rather than dismissing the criticism, they take it seriously: yes, a preacher can force a grid onto a text, flatten every . . . Continue reading →
Hart: The History Between The Reformation And Modernity Matters
To hear some people talk, you would think that the birth of freedom, democracy, and the modern world started with the Protestant Reformation. In fact, the coincidence of faith and modernity has less to do with Martin Luther than with John Calvin, . . . Continue reading →
Chicago Public Schools Forced By Lawsuit To Admit Moody Grads To Program
Four months after filing a religious discrimination lawsuit on behalf of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys reached a favorable settlement with the Chicago Board of Education. Chicago Public Schools had prevented Moody, a private Christian college, from . . . Continue reading →