adventures in church history

5 min read 2022-02-03 04:47:19

What Protestantism Tried to Fix

(By the way, some of Roman Catholicism’s antiquity is not ancient.) “How the Irish Changed Penance,” by John Rodden, Commonweal Magazine,

1 min read 2021-06-12 01:37:53

Maybe it was a different time. It was at least before Mike Brown, Carter Paige, “both sides” in Charlottesville, Robert Mueller, Volodymyr

1 min read 2021-06-02 02:06:24

Our Lord could be hard to pin down (so to speak): Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2“Why do your disciples break

1 min read 2021-05-07 03:12:52

When you ask the church to do something that it can’t, you have a problem. Here is the premise for Mark Tooley’s brief for churches building

1 min read 2021-05-05 04:22:48

James Kessler doesn’t think so: The PCA is not going back to 2001. Rewriting our constitution is not going to happen, not only because no party has

2 min read 2021-02-18 02:37:16

Readers may have heard that Max Lucado, who seems to have avoided controversy until now in the post-Ferguson state of American evangelicalism,

2 min read 2021-01-07 00:25:19

Not science or naturalism but politics, community, social capital, and civility have weakened Presbyterian convictions way more than higher criticism

2 min read 2020-12-01 04:22:07

Some will not like reading this, but Alec Ryrie cannot be canceled so readily . Between the Elizabethan settlement and the English Civil War, the

2 min read 2020-11-27 02:08:47

Two years before the 1619 Project — even — the New York Times was demythologizing America’s Protestant history. The Mayflower did bring the

2 min read 2020-09-05 04:19:58

In light of the point derived from Luther that justice requires peace (“No Peace, No Justice“), along comes Luther’s reflections on Psalm 37

3 min read 2020-06-05 03:40:03

Aside from being Machen’s nemesis, Charles Erdman was the son of a premillenialist and holiness Presbyterian evangelist who had close ties to

4 min read 2020-06-01 23:40:56

From the July 2000 Nicotine Theological Journal: The prefix “post” has any number of proper usages. And most of those – postscript, postlude,

10 min read 2020-05-31 02:17:37

From the April 2000 Nicotine Theological Journal: What does it mean to be conservative in the United States? According to Webster’s New Collegiate

7 min read 2020-05-30 02:51:57

From the January 2000 issue of the Nicotine Theological Journal: On June 24, 1936, the Christian Century reported that with the founding of the

4 min read 2020-04-27 23:32:44

The subject of confessionalism in relation to the Gospel Coalition has again come up, this time with a charitable defense of the organization from