Day After Mencken Day 2021
When little Felix comes home to his patriotic and Christian home with the news that the Fathers of 1776 were a gang of smugglers and profiteers, and
Tag : Old Life
David French Rarely Speaks Truth to Evangelical Power
If you recall the controversy over Larycia Hawkins at Wheaton College, when the professor of political science lost her post for among other things
Would Moderates Let Slavery Split the PCA?
Maybe it was a different time. It was at least before Mike Brown, Carter Paige, “both sides” in Charlottesville, Robert Mueller, Volodymyr
Broadening Churches Break, Will the PCA?
The Broadening Church was the word the title of Lefferts Loetscher’s book about the Presbyterian controversy of the 1920s and 1930s. It was not the
What about Jesus’ Whataboutism?
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
How Liberal Protestantism Happens (and it’s even worse when it claims to be conservative)
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
Can The PCA Turn Back the Clock to 2001?
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
What Does Evangelicalism Have to Do with Church Membership?
A recent Gallup Poll shows church membership dipping below 50% for the first time in eight decades. The results have provided observers with a chance
Rush Ten Years Ago
Lots of people are writing about Rush Limbaugh now that he is dead. Bill (aka Wilfred) wrote about Rush a decade ago for Commentary magazine and
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Imagine if the Presbytery of New York Had Apologized for Fosdick
Readers may have heard that Max Lucado, who seems to have avoided controversy until now in the post-Ferguson state of American evangelicalism,
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Why Do Christians Hate on Christians (the preposition takes the edge off sin)
It was striking to see the difference between the initial Christian interpretation of the riot at the Capitol on January 6th. David French called it
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What Could Have Gone Wrong?
Has American evangelicals’ love affair with Dutch Calvinism (in its w-w forms) finally run out of steam? Remember back to Francis Schaeffer who
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Liberal Presbyterianism before Erdman
Not science or naturalism but politics, community, social capital, and civility have weakened Presbyterian convictions way more than higher criticism
Thompson to Dreher: “Say it Better”
Greg Thompson’s review of Rod Dreher’s new book in the Neo-Calvinist publication, Comment, should be good news to those worried about progressive
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Machen Death Day (2021)
This unprecedented decline in literature and art is only one manifestation of a more far-reaching phenomenon; it is only one instance of that