abraham kuyper

7 min read 2022-10-05 23:00:00

The Chinese Christians Fighting for Hong Kong

Why do Christians fight for freedom in Hong Kong? Why do many lead the charge? “There is truth in the Bible. Truth in Christianity … compared

4 min read 2022-09-05 14:00:00

A Labor Day Review of How to be a Patriotic Christian: Love of Country as Love of Neighbor by Richard Mouw, InterVarsity Press, 2022. Richard Mouw

3 min read 2022-07-06 21:06:06

Would readers exist for Herman Bavinck’s writing, increasingly available thanks to the good work of translators, without the ground already

3 min read 2022-05-18 15:00:00

“Editorial Correspondence,” by Reinhold NiebuhrApril 28, 1947 I have just spent a week in the Ecumenical Institute, situated a few miles outside

14 min read 2022-04-13 15:00:00

“Editorial Correspondence,” by Reinhold NiebuhrApril 14, 1947 Amsterdam, Holland, March 12 During my visit just completed to the universities of

1 min read 2021-09-22 15:00:00

“Letter from Holland,” by L.H. RuitenbergAugust 5, 1946 While North Americans, on being informed of the church situation in Holland, are not in

1 min read 2021-08-14 16:16:38

This past week, I shared the following links on social media and I think they’re worth sharing here too: 10 Safeguards for Church Nurseries and

7 min read 2021-03-25 15:00:00

Shadi Hamid’s recent essay in The Atlantic, “America without God,” has spurred much discussion about the nature of current public discourse

3 min read 2021-03-08 10:43:41

Bavinck: A Critical Biography, James Eglinton. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020. Hardcover, 450 pages. In my corner of the Reformed world,

6 min read 2021-02-02 09:24:34

Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) stands with John Calvin and Abraham Kuyper as one of the greatest Reformed theologians. He’s renowned for being

3 min read 2021-01-21 05:22:53

Has American evangelicals’ love affair with Dutch Calvinism (in its w-w forms) finally run out of steam? Remember back to Francis Schaeffer who

4 min read 2020-12-01 09:57:12

The following is an excerpt from chapter 17 of Aiming to Please: A Guide to Reformed Worship (available from Amazon and other retailers). The

5 min read 2020-11-20 16:00:00

The arrival of the second edition of David Koyzis’ Political Visions and Illusions: A Survey and Christian Critique of Contemporary Ideologies is

5 min read 2020-09-04 15:00:00

Some of the bestselling books about Christians and politics in recent years have espoused skepticism about the liberal project. In 2018, it was

2 min read 2020-08-21 02:28:19

The idea that a building like Hagia Sophia, which had been a Christian cathedral, then became a mosque, and then under a secular state committed to