Office Hours: Carl Trueman Explains Why The World Seems So Upside Down

Or Why It Seems Rude To Call Caitlyn, Bruce And Elliot, Ellen

by R. Scott Clark on February 1, 2021 | 4 Comments

If you are of sufficient age, you remember when Caitlyn Jenner was Bruce Jenner, one of the greatest Olympic Athletes in modern history. He won the gold medal in the Decathlon in the 1976 Olympics. If you are a little younger you . . . Continue reading →

The AMA Loses Its Mind (Or How Expressive Individualism Spreads Like A Cancer)

by R. Scott Clark on August 13, 2021 9 Comments

The American Medical Association, once a respect college of physicians, has recommended that biological sex be removed from birth certificates. Continue reading →

Bob Godfrey On “What’s Going on Right Now: Sex, Race, Politics & Power” (2)

by R. Scott Clark on October 30, 2021 | 1 Comment

Bob Godfrey has been teaching the Adult Sunday School class in (what is now) the Escondido United Reformed Church for forty years. Some of that material has made its way into print and, in that way, perhaps you have benefited directly from . . . Continue reading →

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

by Heidelblog 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 →

Expressive Individualism And Trans Children?

by Heidelblog on March 7, 2022

Last week, three news stories threw into sharp relief the ambitions of the sexual revolutionaries who govern the United States. First, there was the predictable outrage from the usual elites concerning Florida’s Parental Right in Education Bill, which would significantly restrict the . . . Continue reading →

Bob Godfrey: What’s Going On Right Now? Sex, Race, Politics, And Power (12)—Freud

by Heidelblog on March 20, 2022 | 1 Comment

In this session, Bob Godfrey turns his attention to the effect that Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) had upon the West. Until the early 1970s the psychiatric and psychological establishment recognized homosexuality as a mental illness or a disorder. In the late 1950s, Dr . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: Expressive Individualism Is The Third “Great Awakening”

by Heidelblog on March 24, 2022

Years ago, Anthony Esolen pointed out that pedophilia and the free and easy attitudes toward sex in contemporary society share a common moral structure: both prioritize the sexual desires of adults over the welfare of children. The difference, of course, is that . . . Continue reading →

The Apotheosis And The Emperor’s New Clothes

by R. Scott Clark on March 25, 2022 | 1 Comment

In the last few days Twitter has banned a number of highly visible accounts for describing a member of President Biden’s administration, the assistant secretary for health, by his former name. This person, who also holds the title of Admiral, is biologically . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: It Is A Strange New World

by R. Scott Clark on April 30, 2022 | 2 Comments

Carl Trueman made a big splash by speaking uncomfortable truths to seemingly intractable power in The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (Wheaton: Crossway, 2020). In Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution (Wheaton: Crossway, 2022), . . . Continue reading →

Addicted To Autonomy

by R. Scott Clark on November 14, 2022

In Western history, as in Scripture, it never goes well when man defies God—as Adam, Cain, Pharaoh, Achan, Uzzah, the boys at Bethel (2 Kings 2:23), Judas, or Ananias and Sapphira. Yet, in Modernity, the West has defied God for centuries. Continue reading →

Video: Trueman Explains How We Got Here

by Heidelblog on August 11, 2023 | 1 Comment

Carl chats with the guys from Triggernometry about the Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Continue reading →

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