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 →

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 →

Godfrey On Being Disestablished

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on March 15, 2022 | 1 Comment

We Reformed conservatives need to become missionaries in our mentality. Missionaries recognize that they are not established. They do not have power. They must understand a new culture and learn to communicate with it. They depend on the Spirit to persuade their . . . Continue reading →

What’s A Commissioner To Do?

Wendell Talley

on March 22, 2022 | 9 Comments

Incredibly, the Governor of Iowa has nominated me for a place on a statewide commission.1 My nomination is pending confirmation by the state senate in April. It is an out of the way, low level commission. The stakes are low. There won’t . . . Continue reading →

Sasse: The Church Is An Embassy

R. Scott Clark

on April 1, 2022

To Those Who Left

R. Scott Clark

on April 6, 2022 | 30 Comments

The obvious effects of Covid are easy to spot. Not only have millions died, but also many have long-term illness from the virus, and an unknown number of people are suffering from the various treatments. There are small children who do not . . . Continue reading →

Sean Moore: Serving Christ In The Secular Sphere By Serving His Neighbors

Sean Discovers The Reformed Confession

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on April 7, 2022 | 6 Comments

Sean Michael Moore (BA, University of San Diego) is a native of and Mayor-elect of Hollywood Park, TX. He has been a businessman for 25 years and has served as a member of the city council in Hollywood Park. He is married . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: Do Not Despair, Prepare

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on April 8, 2022

The world in which we live
seems set to be entering a new,
chaotic, uncharted, and dark
era. Continue reading →

The Two Sexes As God Created Them Enables A Deeper Union

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on April 25, 2022 | 1 Comment

The noblest of God’s binaries, though, is found in humanity. God crowned us with the honor of bearing his image, uniting a physical body and a rational soul (Genesis 1:26, 2:7). Then he split the man into “male and female” (1:27, 2:22), . . . Continue reading →

Hart Reviews Noll—America’s Book: The Rise And Decline Of A Bible Civilization, 1794–1911

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on April 27, 2022 | 1 Comment

Many Americans born after 1960 have trouble imagining that for much of the country’s history the Bible was a chief source of national identity. Older Hollywood directors sometimes get it right. Take “Liberty Heights” (1999), written and directed by Barry Levinson (born . . . Continue reading →

Bob Godfrey: What’s Going On Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, And Power (13)—Five Responses To The Collapse Of Christendom

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on April 30, 2022 | 4 Comments

How do Christians live in hostile environment and how do they know whether it is a hostile environment? “If you live in an environment where most people don’t believe in God at all or do not believe that God is relevant to . . . Continue reading →

Should The Visible Church, As An Institution, Form And Express An Opinion On Political Violence?

R. Scott Clark

on April 30, 2022 | 18 Comments

s noted here previously, the mainline (liberal) PCUSA has adopted more than 120 positions on a bewildering variety of issues. The temptation to use the visible church to achieve one’s desired social goals is almost irresistible. Continue reading →

Supreme Court 9–0: Boston May Not Discriminate Against Christian Group

R. Scott Clark

on May 2, 2022 | 5 Comments

The SCOTUS unanimously ruled today, in Shurtleff v. City of Boston, that the City of Boston’s decision to exclude the “Camp Constitution” organization from a public flagpole, available to other groups, violated the Constitution of the United States. As Justice Kavanaugh explained, “This . . . Continue reading →

On The Limits Of Winsomeness

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on May 7, 2022 | 4 Comments

And I started to recognize another danger to this approach: If we assume that winsomeness will gain a favorable hearing, when Christians consistently receive heated pushback, we will be tempted to think our convictions are the problem. If winsomeness is met with . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: Expressive Individualism LGBTQ Style Comes To Baylor

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on May 12, 2022

The news that Baylor University has officially chartered Prism, an LGBT student organization on campus, marks an important moment in Christian higher education in the USA. …The charter itself is interesting. It contains no reference to Christ or Christianity, an odd lacuna . . . Continue reading →

What’s Going on Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, & Power w/ Dr. W. Robert Godfrey (14)

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on May 20, 2022

In this episode Bob Godfrey continues his series examining the Christian life after Christendom. How should Christians respond? How have Christians responded to similar challenges in the past. He turns here to Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920), the marvelously prolific author, publisher of two . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 227: Is Distinguishing Between The Two Spheres Of God’s Kingdom “Radical”?

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on May 25, 2022 | 6 Comments

Recently someone posted some criticisms of what they characterize as “radical two kingdom” theology or R2K. What are we talking about? In the 16th and 17th centuries our classic Reformed theologians regularly distinguished between “two kingdoms.” This way of talking was not controversial . . . Continue reading →

Winsome Is The New Nice

by R. Scott Clark on May 27, 2022 4 Comments

Tom Hervey has published an interesting essay on the Aquila Report. In it he questions the legitimacy of “winsomeness” as a virtue. He is correct. It should be questioned. Continue reading →

Understanding The Times: Did Christianity Become Marginal In America In 2014?

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on June 11, 2022

To refresh, my framework posits that during the period of secularization post-1965, America has passed through three distinct phases or worlds in terms of how secular culture views Christianity. Positive World (Pre-1994). Christianity was viewed positively by society and Christian morality was still . . . Continue reading →

Join The King’s Army Today

R. Scott Clark

on June 11, 2022 | 4 Comments

One finds profound truths in odd places. Today I found one on a fast-food sign. “Join The King’s Army Today” it read. “That is really good counsel,” I thought to myself. I am reasonably certain that the fast-food corporation and I are . . . Continue reading →

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